Comunicación y cultura

The recent economic crisis, and the challenges to democracy in an increasingly globalised world, brings into sharp relief the importance of mass communication. Media and Left explores the nature of communication, to the role of the media industry, to the way that mass communication has facilitated social movements. Revisiting the works of Marx and others, the essays bring a new perspective on critical analyses of communication practices globally. This collection represents the cutting edge of communication research.

An engaging book for professional educators and an ideal textbook for certificate, masters, and doctoral programs in educational technology, instructional systems and learning design, Foundations of Educational Technology, Second Edition offers a fresh, interdisciplinary, problem-centered approach to the subject, helping students build extensive notes and an electronic portfolio as they navigate the text. The book addresses fundamental aspects of educational technology theory, research and practice that span various users, contexts and settings; includes a full range of engaging exercises for students that will contribute to their professional growth; and offers the following 4-step pedagogical features inspired by M. D. Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction:

TELL: Primary presentations and pointers to major sources of information and resources

ASK: Activities that encourage students to critique applications and share their individual interpretations

SHOW: Activities that demonstrate the application of key concepts and complex skills with appropriate opportunities for learner responses

DO: Activities in which learners apply key concepts and complex skills while working on practice assignments and/or projects to be created for their electronic portfolios

The second edition of this textbook covers the core objectives addressed in introductory educational technology courses while adding new sections on mobile learning, MOOCs, open educational resources, "big data," and learning analytics along with suggestions to instructors and appendices on effective writing, professional associations, journal and trade magazines.

E-Learning, E-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and E-Government is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at EEE '13, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians. Selected topics include: * Learning Methods, E-Learning + Educational Tools, and Related Issues* E-Government And Issues Of Interest To Government, Elected Officials, and Relevant Agencies* E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Banking, Enterprise Information Systems, and Security* Management, Tools, Web, Information Extraction + Applications and Standards* E-Commerce And Privacy + Education and Learning Methods + Knowledge-Based Systems

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry’s high-tech trash. The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media is the first book to bring together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field, and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production, technology manufacture, and every occupation in between.

With the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right-wing activists organized around an anti-immigration agenda are becoming more vocal, providing pushback against the increase in migration flows from North Africa and Eastern Europe and countering support for integration with a categorical rejection of multiculturalism. In the United States, anti-immigration sentiment provides a rallying point for political and personal agendas that connect the rhetoric of borders with national, racial, and security issues.

Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States is an effort to examine and understand these issues, informed by the conviction that an interdisciplinary and transnational approach can allow productive comparison of far-right propaganda strategies in Europe and the United States. With a special emphasis on performing ideology in the far-right music scene, on violent anti-immigrant stances, and on the far right’s skillful creation and manipulation of virtual communities, the contributions foreground the cultural shibboleths that are exchanged among far-right supporters on the Internet, which serve to generate a sense of group belonging and the illusion of power far greater that the known numbers of neo-Nazis in any one country might suggest. Moreover, with attention to transatlantic right-wing movements and their use of particularly digital media, the essays in this volume put pressure on the similarities among the various national agents, while accommodating differences in the virtual and sometimes violent identities created and nurtured online.

In Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world.

Includes examples of mediatization and transcultural communication from a variety of cultural contexts
Covers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital media
Incorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation

No longer has a niche or cult identity, fandom now coloured our notions of an expansive generational construct– the millennial generation. Like fans, millennials are frequently cast as active participants in media culture, spectators who expect opportunities to intervene, control, and create. At the same time, longstanding fears about fans' cultural unruliness manifest in rampant stories of millennials' technological overdependence and lack of moral boundaries. These conflicting narratives of entrepreneurial creativity and digital immorality operate to quell the growing threat represented by millennials' media agency. With fan activities becoming ever more visible on social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, Polyvore, and Tumblr, the fan has become the avatar of our digital hopes and fears. In an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media texts, including popular television series like Kyle XY, Glee, Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars, and Pretty Little Liars and online works like The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to remix videos, YouTube posts, and imagesharing streams, author This generation–and the fans it represents–is actively transforming the media landscape into a dynamic, culturally transgressive space of collective authorship. Offering a rich and complex vision of the relationship between fandom and millennial culture, Millennial Fandom will interest fans, millennials, students, and scholars of contemporary media culture alike.

What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?

Culture offers students a workable understanding of the category ‘culture’ and explores how the realm of the ‘cultural’ can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.

Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can’t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.

With extensive examples and case studies throughout, the book demonstrates both the productivity and the limitations in orientating analysis to the cultural.

A thought-provoking and engaging examination, Culture is an ideal introductory text for students of media and cultural studies.

Si algo caracteriza al ámbito de las audiencias, es que los pilares que lo venían sosteniendo han perdido gran parte de su consistencia. ¿Qué queda de la consideración de los medios como ejes centrales para las democracias? ¿Es posible encontrar en ellos la información necesaria para ejercer como ciudadanos, no solo votando sino también participando en las cuestiones públicas?. Cuando se habla de la urgencia de estar siempre conectados, ¿se está pensando realmente en todos los grupos sociales? ¿Cómo se podrá salir de la crisis del modelo tradicional de medición? Esta, paradójicamente, deriva de la gestación del mayor focus group que nadie pudo imaginar jamás gracias a la gran «plaza digital», global por su alcance tecnológico, pero ¿y por su alcance ciudadano? Amparo Huertas bucea entre textos de principios del siglo pasado para atrapar este presente, híbrido y movedizo, y poder así dar cuenta del futuro que estamos construyendo.

Lo studio della democrazia digitale è un campo in via di definizione o, meglio, in continua ridefinizione. Dagli esordi pubblici del World Wide Web ai recenti esperimenti di e-democracy, molta strada è stata fatta. Ma cosa significano oggi concetti quali e-government, digital governance, open government o democrazia liquida? In che modo le tecnologie della comunicazione, e quelle digitali in particolare, costituiscono un valore aggiunto per le pratiche di partecipazione politica? Il web è davvero uno strumento al servizio dell'innovazione democratica oppure, come sostengono i cyber-pessimisti, "Internet è il nemico"? Questa piccola introduzione offre una risposta a queste e ad altre domande, analizzando il ruolo sociale dei media digitali e la loro dimensione politica, e individuando potenzialità e limiti della democrazia digitale.