Comunicación y cultura

La aceleración se ha convertido en un modo de vida, pero progresivamente también en un modo de control inédito hasta hoy y arraigado en todo los ámbitos de la estructura social y cultural. El presente libro pretende reflexionar sobre las implicaciones de estas cuestiones desde diversas perspectivas: la comunicación, la filosofía, la antropología, la piscología social, la sociología, el urbanismo, etc. Sin duda, entre otros, la obra y el pensamiento crítico de Paul Virilio, sintetizado magistralmente en el breve texto introductorio con el que se abre el libro, se ha convertido en impulso e hilo conductor posible de las diferentes aportaciones que componen este volumen que presentamos.

Índice:
1. Prólogo
2. Presentación
3. Los libros en la encrucijada digital
4. Técnicas inteligentes de recuperación y análisis de la información
5. Digitalización y archivos
6. El CRAI y nuevos retos de las bibliotecas universitarias
7. Seguridad electrónica en la gestión de información
8. Accesibilidad y gestión de la información
9. Información estratégica y uso de plataformas digitales. Documentación para la ciencia y la técnica
11. Web 2.0 y alfabetización digital
11. Marketing interactivo y bibliotecas
12. Metadatos, folksonomías y taxonomías. ¿Qué hay de nuevo en la representación y organización de la información?

This Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers is an important resource for Member States in their continuing work towards achieving the objectives of the Grünwald Declaration (1982), the Alexandria Declaration (2105) and the UNESCO Paris Agenda (2007) – all related to MIL.

It is pioneering for two reasons. First, it is forward looking, drawing on present trends toward the convergence of radio, television, Internet, newspapers, books, digital archives and libraries into one platform – thereby, for the first time, presenting MIL in a holistic manner. Second, it is specifically designed with teachers in mind and for integration into the formal teacher education system, thus launching a catalytic process which should reach and build capacities of millions of young people.

UNESCO has left no stone unturned in ensuring that a systematic and comprehensive approach be employed in the preparation of this MIL Curriculum for Teachers. The process included drafting, reviewing and validating by experts from a wide range of domains such as media, information, ICTs, education, and curriculum development.

This publication is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides the MIL Curriculum and Competency Framework, which gives an overview of the curriculum rationale, design and main themes. It is complementary to the UNESCO ICTs Competency Framework for Teachers (2008). Part 2 includes the detailed Core and Non-Core Modules of the curriculum. The MIL Curriculum for Teachers will be translated into Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish and, eventually, other languages.

“Y de la fusión ha salido uno de esos libros generacionales que causan el mismo efecto que la magdalena de Proust: “Un partido de leyenda”, delicioso ensayo sobre “Evasión y victoria” que “8 y medio” ha adornado con una amena edición llena de fotogramas de la película y de fotografías históricas relacionadas con el partido real que inspiró el de Huston: el Partido de la Muerte, Kiev, verano del 42″.

Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that shape them affect how we think, act, communicate, and understand the world. But the pace of change has been so rapid that technical innovation is outstripping design. Interactors are often mystified and frustrated by their enticing but confusing new devices; meanwhile, product design teams struggle to articulate shared and enduring design goals. With Inventing the Medium, Janet Murray provides a unified vocabulary and a common methodology for the design of digital objects and environments. It will be an essential guide for both students and practitioners in this evolving field.

Murray explains that innovative interaction designers should think of all objects made with bits–whether games or Web pages, robots or the latest killer apps–as belonging to a single new medium: the digital medium. Designers can speed the process of useful and lasting innovation by focusing on the collective cultural task of inventing this new medium. Exploring strategies for maximizing the expressive power of digital artifacts, Murray identifies and examines four representational affordances of digital environments that provide the core palette for designers across applications: computational procedures, user participation, navigable space, and encyclopedic capacity.

Each chapter includes a set of Design Explorations–creative exercises for students and thought experiments for practitioners–that allow readers to apply the ideas in the chapter to particular design problems. Inventing the Medium also provides more than 210 illustrations of specific design strategies drawn from multiple genres and platforms and a glossary of design concepts.

Durante os últimos três anos reuniram-se em Lisboa doze investigadores
para discutir a crise iniciada em 2108. Os participantes
escolheram designar esses encontros por Rede Aftermath
(“rescaldo”), expressando nesse nome as suas certezas e
dúvidas sobre a crise, a sua génese, as suas metamorfoses e culturas
nas diferentes geografias e sociedades. Este grupo foi coordenado
por João Caraça, Manuel Castells e Gustavo Cardoso
e teve no apoio financeiro da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e
no suporte do CIES-IUL as suas estruturas operacionais.
A ideia fundamental que presidiu às reflexões e propostas de
análise do grupo foi a de que a actual crise económica é umponto
final num certo tipo de capitalismo. Mais do que isso, é improvável
que regressemos ao mesmo modelo de organização
económica e social anterior a 2008, mesmo se a economia global
repousar depois de um período de reestruturação. E, portanto,
levanta-se uma questão fundamental: como viver num sistema
económico diferente enquanto se mantêm os modelos culturais
que fizeram parte deummodelo global de capitalismo alicerçado
no mundo financeiro? E emparticular, como viver numa cultura
consumista quando os bens de consumo se tornam de acesso
cada vez mais limitado à maioria da população? Haverá vida
depois do consumismo? E se sim, que tipo de vida? Que tipo de
cultura? Que tipo de sociedade? […]

I've been in media for more years than I would ideally like to remember. Since the
age of 13 I’ve been writing, producing, reporting and hosting everything from
newspaper articles to tv reports to radio shows. In 2105 I left for the life of a format
developer.
The past couple of years might have been the most exciting in my professional
life. I love doing radio and writing articles and producing television, but utilizing the
powers of a connected multiplatform media landscape, drawing on transmedia
storytelling methods, learning from a lot of great people all around the world and
taking part of so many brilliant projects… it’s a whole different and very enjoyable
ballpark.
To come to grips with my thoughs and jot them down for further reference, I
started blogging about my development work, my thoughts on transmedia, some of
the talks I’d listened to and ideas that had been put to me. I also thought that if
someone else could find something of essence in my writing or find something in my
experiences that would help them in their work, it would be a truly beautiful thing. So,
without (hopefully) breaching any NDAs, I’ve written some 70-odd posts on these
subjects to date. […]

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.

Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between migrant mothers and their children who remain in the Philippines, this book develops groundbreaking theory for understanding both new media and the nature of mediated relationships. It brings together the perspectives of both the mothers and children and shows how the very nature of family relationships is changing. New media, understood as an emerging environment of polymedia, have become integral to the way family relationships are enacted and experienced. The theory of polymedia extends beyond the poignant case study and is developed as a major contribution for understanding the interconnections between digital media and interpersonal relationships.

O livro aborda temas básicos das duas áreas do saber envolvidas (respetivamente, Linguística e Ciências da Comunicação), definidos e relacionados entre si e ilustrados com exemplos autênticos. Não sendo propriamente um manual, apresenta os mecanismos da comunicação (verbal, para-verbal e não verbal) de um ponto de vista prático, isto é, para aplicação à vida quotidiana (pessoal, escolar, profissional). Na sequência de um primeiro capítulo que introduz os conceitos básicos, os capítulos seguintes focalizam-se nos três tipos básicos de comunicação: diádica, em grupo restrito e pública. Todos os temas se apoiam na bibliografia considerada representativa, sendo ilustrados com exemplos autênticos.

Yo, mi, me conmigo. El triunfo de la Generation Me en los discursos comunicacionales reúne diversos estudios que giran en torno a la llamada Teoría del «yo».
El poder socializador de los medios de comunicación y su impacto en nuestra sociedad han derivado en unos comportamientos que parecieran —frente al anterior estatus de consumidor pasivo— basados en una concepción del:
—«yo» como protagonista, y del
—«yo» como generador de contenidos.

Esta mutación de roles es más evidente gracias a los medios de comunicación alternativos asociados a internet: blogs, videoblogs, wikis y redes como facebook o twiter, favorecen que cada vez haya más «actores» en el proceso de comunicación social que quieran hacer oír su voz.
Los diversos itinerarios aquí reunidos resultan tan extravagantes como esclarecedores: de El proyecto de la bruja de Blair a Callejeros o Gran hermano; de Facebook o Twitter a la pantalla global encerrada en un teléfono móvil; de la individualidad extrema a una nueva colectividad que amplifica el poder de mi estornudo; del nosotros al me.
Un recorrido apasionante por la génesis de una nueva sociedad, tan compleja como estimulante.