Author: Rafael Timón Gómez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : es Pages :
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La digitalización de los medios ha dejado obsoleta la noción de medios de comunicación. Actualmente la producción y distribución de información, es decir, el objeto de los medios de comunicación tradicionales, ha desbordado ese ámbito para trasformarse en un problema central en muchos otros. Los medios digitales se han situado, de esta forma, en el epicentro de esa problemática, y la atención a la manera más eficaz de procesar la información se ha convertido en una de las cuestiones centrales para toda disciplina, desde la medicina, pasando por la astrofísica, hasta las humanidades y las ciencias sociales. Así, la preocupación por la gestión de la información define, en parte, lo que ha significado el siglo XX y la pequeña parte que llevamos vivida del XXI. Pero desde el punto de vista cultural, esta preocupación ha existido siempre si atendemos a aquella concepción de cultura que la entiende como la información compartida por un grupo de personas, las cuales conforman un sistema cultural concreto. De todas formas, y en consonancia con lo antes mencionado, no es, tal vez, hasta ese siglo XX cuando las instituciones sociales y culturales se configuraron en torno a las actividades de producción, distribución y gestión de la información -almacenamiento, procesamiento, tratamiento estadístico, etcétera- dando lugar a concepciones sociales como la discutida sociedad de la información, o culturales como la de cultura digital. Es, precisamente, ésta última una de las que aborda el cambio en los valores y las expectativas que el posicionamiento de la gestión de la información en el centro de la discusión cultural ha provocado. En esos cambios han tenido una tremenda importancia las tecnologías digitales y computacionales, si bien éstas responden también a inquietudes previas, es decir, no se puede entender que los cambios sean directa y únicamente causa de las tecnologías, aunque éstas sí funcionan como mediadoras culturales, respondiendo a inquietudes y provocando, a su vez, cambios culturales...
Author: Henry Jenkins Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS) ISBN: 9788449321535 Category : Business & Economics Languages : es Pages : 308
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La cultura de la convergencia cartografía un nuevo territorio en el que los viejos medios y los nuevos se entrecruzan; donde los medios populares chocan con los corporativos; donde el poder del productor mediático y el del consumidor interaccionan de maneras impredecibles. Henry Jenkins, uno de los analistas mediáticos más respetados de Estados Unidos, escarba bajo el despliegue publicitario de los nuevos medios y nos desvela las importantes transformaciones culturales que se están produciendo a medida que los medios convergen. También nos introduce en el mundo secreto de los Aguafiestas de Survivor, en el que ávidos usuarios de Internet comparten sus informaciones para revelar los secretos del programa antes de que éstos se emitan en antena. Nos presenta a jóvenes fans de Harry Potter que escriben sus propios cuentos sobre Hogwarts, mientras los ejecutivos de Warner Brothers luchan por el control de su franquicia. Nos muestra cómo Matrix ha elevado la narración transmediática a una nueva dimensión, creando un mundo de ficción donde los consumidores rastrean fragmentos de la historia a través de múltiples canales mediáticos. Libro premiado en 2007 por la Sociedad para los Estudios Cinematográficos y Mediáticos Katherine Singer Kovács
Author: Charlie Gere Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1861895607 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 286
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From our bank accounts to supermarket checkouts to the movies we watch, strings of ones and zeroes suffuse our world. Digital technology has defined modern society in numerous ways, and the vibrant digital culture that has now resulted is the subject of Charlie Gere’s engaging volume. In this revised and expanded second edition, taking account of new developments such as Facebook and the iPhone, Charlie Gere charts in detail the history of digital culture, as marked by responses to digital technology in art, music, design, film, literature and other areas. After tracing the historical development of digital culture, Gere argues that it is actually neither radically new nor technologically driven: digital culture has its roots in the eighteenth century and the digital mediascape we swim in today was originally inspired by informational needs arising from industrial capitalism, contemporary warfare and counter-cultural experimentation, among other social changes. A timely and cutting-edge investigation of our contemporary social infrastructures, Digital Culture is essential reading for all those concerned about the ever-changing future of our Digital Age. “This is an excellent book. It gives an almost complete overview of the main trends and view of what is generally called digital culture through the whole post-war period, as well as a thorough exposition of the history of the computer and its predecessors and the origins of the modern division of labor.”—Journal of Visual Culture
Author: Luciano Floridi Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191667692 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 265
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Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an "infosphere". Personas we adopt in social media, for example, feed into our 'real' lives so that we begin to live, as Floridi puts in, "onlife". Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. "Onlife" defines more and more of our daily activity - the way we shop, work, learn, care for our health, entertain ourselves, conduct our relationships; the way we interact with the worlds of law, finance, and politics; even the way we conduct war. In every department of life, ICTs have become environmental forces which are creating and transforming our realities. How can we ensure that we shall reap their benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable and empower us, or constrain us? Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new challenges posed by our digital technologies and information society.
Author: David Karpf Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190266155 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 225
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Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized activist groups to listen. Beneath the waves of e-petitions, "likes," and hashtags lies a sea of data - a newly quantified form of supporter sentiment - and advocacy organizations can now utilize new tools to measure this data to make decisions and shape campaigns. In this book, David Karpf discusses the power and potential of this new "analytic activism," exploring the organizational and media logics that determine how digital inputs shape the choices that political campaigners make. He provides the first careful analysis of how organizations like Change.org and Upworthy.com influence the types of political narratives that dominate our Facebook newsfeeds and Twitter timelines, and how MoveOn.org and its "netroots" peers use analytics to listen more effectively to their members and supporters. As well, he identifies the boundaries that define the scope of this new style of organized citizen engagement. But also raising a note of caution, Karpf identifies the dangers and limitations in putting too much faith in these new forms of organized listening.
Author: Katrin Voltmer Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415337798 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 253
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Using a comparative approach, this book examines how political communication and the mass media have played an important role in the consolidation of democratic institutions.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264670971 Category : Languages : en Pages : 216
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Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacing traditional formats of usually more carefully curated information such as encyclopaedias and newspapers.
Author: Lelia Green Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761947097 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 292
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Lelia Green looks at what drives technological change, showing that the adoption of new technologies is not inevitable. She also explores how a variety of technology cultures coexist and interact.
Author: Rafael Timón Gómez
Author: Henry Jenkins
Author: Lev Manovich
Author: Charlie Gere
Author: Lucia Santaella
Author: Luciano Floridi
Author: David Karpf
Author: Katrin Voltmer
Author: OECD
Author: Lelia Green