Comunicación y cultura

La realidad camina en el sentido del concepto popperiano de "sociedad abierta". La nuestra merece ese nombre por basarse en el acceso universal y prácticamente gratuito a la información gracias a internet, cuya importancia muchos equiparan a la de la invención de la imprenta en su día y no solo por su presente sino por su futuro. El debate público y abierto de las cuestiones que afectan a la colectividad reafirma la idea de que la democracia es la identidad entre gobernados y gobernantes. Habilita a los primeros con abundancia de medios de participación y fiscalización y priva cada vez más a los segundos del recurso al secreto, la opacidad, la impunidad y otros medios del poder propios de las sociedades cerradas. La sociedad abierta triunfa sobre el autoritarismo, pero no tiene el futuro garantizado, ya que depende de la voluntad de los ciudadanos de defenderla como un ámbito de solución de conflictos de verdades y valores, muchas veces antagónicos, a la luz de la razón y en procura de la libertad. De eso se trata en este libro.

221 páginas
978-84-939366-2-4

En el nuevo sistema internacional emergente, la creciente diversidad de acercamientos entre países y economías de Occidente anuncia el inicio de un cambio de ciclo que requiere, una nueva alianza latina cimentada en la interlocución y mediación cultural en defensa de una cosmovisión común. La puesta en marcha de iniciativas como SOCICOM en Brasil o la creciente constitución de asociaciones nacionales de comunicación en los países de América Latina en torno a ALAIC apuntan en esta dirección: un nuevo federalismo que permita la autonomía y unidad de acción en la proyección del capital cognitivo allende nuestras fronteras. Este resurgimiento exige el diseño de políticas públicas activas de cooperación que trasciendan el marco de articulación cultural “nacional” a favor de diseños multivalentes y transversales de mediación, un programa que obliga al trabajo en red para superar las habituales barreras territoriales, cognitivas y culturales. En este sentido, el presente volumen es una invitación a pensar y actuar en comunidad para comparar los distintos procesos de integración regional en comunicación y cultura con la voluntad de fomentar la articulación política de un espacio productivo y diverso en común.

‘EMPOWERMENT RADIO – Voices building a community’ sets out to demonstrate why community radio during the past decade has repeatedly been recommended as a powerful catalyst for development – ‘the missing link’ between development support being provided and change actually taking place. This book has been written with a desire to share powerful insights and experiences that can help get a genuine community radio off the ground – and keep it on air. It offers a step-by-step presentation of the central conceptual and practical aspects that are essential for creating EMPOWERMENT RADIO: A sustainable, community-run, well managed, simple and effective platform for the community’s voices, with space for debate on issues of importance that range from urgent ad hoc problems, over continued debate on community development, and onward toward a celebration of the local culture.

Beau, jeune, dynamique, ce premier président noir des Etats-Unis suscita un intérêt planétaire tout au long de sa campagne. Cet ouvrage rend compte de la couverture médiatique de l'élection présidentielle américaine sur plusieurs continents : l'Europe, l'Amérique et l'Afrique. Il confronte les points de vue d'historiens, de politistes et de linguistes de plusieurs nationalités sur la présidence de Barack Obama.

Neste livro os autores procuram contribuir para responder a um dos desafios contemporâneos da ciência: como delinear os contornos de novas formas “abertas” de fazer ciência. Este é um trabalho onde se questiona a ciência praticada no século XX à luz das novas práticas científicas, num contexto de transformação social mais alargado: a emergência da sociedade em rede e o despontar de uma ciência de base informacional.

As tendências identificadas constituem contributos para a compreensão do que será e como será o funcionamento da ciência no séc. XXI. Os autores sugerem que a partilha formal e informal de conhecimento científico nas redes digitais adquire já hoje uma expressão considerável junto dos profissionais da ciência, e que o enquadramento institucional do trabalho científico parece estar a mudar para incluir mecanismos de incentivo a essas práticas. Debate-se assim o que é hoje a Ciência Aberta, mudança de paradigma científico ou de paradigma de investigação? É a Ciência Aberta um novo movimento social ou uma mera partilha de práticas? E é a ciência praticada em Portugal diferente da praticada em outros contextos europeus? Estas são algumas das perguntas a que se procura responder, ao mesmo tempo que se tenta propor uma definição de Ciência Aberta assente na adoção de processos de abertura na publicação completa, franca e rápida, na ausência de restrições relativas a propriedade intelectual e na transparência, radicalmente aumentada, em fases de pré e pós-publicação, de dados, instrumentos, software,atividades e decisões dentro dos grupos de investigação.

CPD Director Philip Seib's new book, Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era (Palgrave Macmillan) offers insights into one of the most important challenges of the 21st century: How can policymakers shift away from being mere spectators and address the political realities of a social-media-oriented society?

Seib considers this question in the context of the Arab Awakening. "The 2111 uprisings in the Middle East proved that democracy retains its appeal, even to people who have long lived without it. They also illustrated how, in a high-speed, media-centric world, conventional diplomacy has become an anachronism. Not only do events move quickly, but so too does public reaction to those events. The cushion of time that enabled policymakers to judiciously gather information and weigh alternatives is gone."

Real-Time Diplomacy analyzes the essential, but often unhappy, marriage between diplomacy and new media, evaluating media's reach and influence, and determining how policy makers might take advantage of media's real-time capabilities rather than being driven by them.

¿Cómo se forman las opiniones de las personas? ¿Son más bien un producto de la razón o de las pasiones? ¿Cómo se genera la opinión pública a partir de las opiniones individuales? ¿Es la opinión pública la expresión del conformismo del ser humano o el motor de los cambios sociales? ¿Cuál es la contribución de las encuestas de opinión a la consolidación de los procesos democráticos?

Originalmente concebido como un curso, El poder de la conversación. Elementos para una teoría de la opinión pública es un tratado sistemático que filtra las ideas del autor a través de las distintas vertientes del pensamiento sociológico.

Desarrollado en un estilo coloquial, ameno y a la vez muy informado, culmina décadas de estudios, consultoría y artículos científicos y periodísticos.

Manuel Mora y Araujo es uno de los mayores especialistas latinoamericanos en la investigación de opinión pública. Fue director de Ipsos-Mora y Araujo y fundador de Mora y Araujo Grupo de Comunicación. Entre sus numerosas posiciones académicas e institucionales, fue rector de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Actualmente es profesor en esa universidad y director de la Maestría en Periodismo Universidad Torcuato Di Tella/La Nación.

How do people access movies today? What are the most popular and
powerful channels for media distribution on a global scale? How are
film industries changing in the face of media convergence and
digitisation?

To answer questions such as these, argues Ramon Lobato, we must shift
our gaze away from the legal film business and toward cinema's shadow
economies. All around the world, films are bought from roadside
stalls, local markets, and grocery stores; they are illegally
downloaded and streamed; they are watched in makeshift video clubs, on
street corners, and in restaurants, shops and bars. International film
culture in its actually-existing forms is a messy affair, and it
relies to a great extent on black and grey media markets. Examining
the industrial dynamics of these subterranean film networks across a
number of different sites – from Los Angeles to Lagos, Melbourne to
Mexico City – this book shows how they constitute a central rather
than marginal part of audiovisual culture and commerce.

Combining film industry analysis with cultural theory, Shadow
Economies of Cinema opens up a new area of inquiry for cinema studies,
putting industry research into dialogue with wider debates about
economic informality and commodity circulation. Written in an
accessible style, this book offers an original 'bottom-up' perspective
on the global cinema industry for researchers and students in film
studies, cultural studies, and media and communications.

RAMON LOBATO is Research Fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social
Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new understanding of how we define public spaces, how we deal with locational privacy, and how networks of power are developed today.
In Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith examine these social and spatial changes by framing the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, and the mobile phone. These technologies work as interfaces to public spaces – that is, as symbolic systems that not only filter information but also reshape communication relationships and the environment in which social interaction takes place. Yet rather than detaching people from their surroundings, the authors suggest that location-aware technologies may ultimately strengthen our connections to locations.

TOC:
Section I: Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces
1. Interfaces to public spaces
2. The public and the private
3. From voice to location
Section II: Location-awareness in the contemporary city
4. Locational privacy
5. Power in location awareness
6. The presentation of location

About the Authors:
Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She is the co-editor of Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces, and co-author of Net-Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World,

Jordan Frith is a doctoral candidate in North Carolina State University's Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program. His main research interests are locative media and space, particularly how locative media may influence interactions in urban spaces. He has recently been published in the journals Mobilities and Communication, Culture, and Critique.