Comunicación y cultura

What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Against the backdrop and scrutiny of Arendt, Aristotle, Bentham, Brentano, Deleuze, Engels, Heidegger, Hume, Husserl, James, Kant, Latour, Locke, Marx, Mill, Plato, Rorty, Ryle, Sartre, Skinner, Spinoza, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, among others, McStay advances a wealth of new ideas and terminology, from affective breaches to zombie media. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of interaction between human and non-human actors, McStay progresses to make unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, our contemporary techno-social condition and the nature of empathic media in an age of intentional machines.
Reconstructing our most basic assumptions about privacy, this book is a must-read for theoreticians, empirical analysts, students, those contributing to policy and anyone interested in the steering philosophical ideas that inform their own orientation and thinking about privacy.

Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen is about enhancing engagement in a digital media culture and the models that educators, parents and policy makers can utilize to place media-savvy youth into positions of purpose, responsibility and power. Two specific challenges are at the core of this book’s argument that media literacy is the path toward more active and robust civic engagement in the 21st century:
How can media literacy enable core competencies for value-driven, diverse and robust digital media use?
How can media literacy enable a more civic-minded participatory culture?
These challenges are great, but they need to be examined in their entirety if media literacy is to begin to address the opportunities they present for democracy, participation and discourse in a digital media age. By presenting information that places media literacy at the center of what it means to be an engaged citizen, educators and policy makers will understand why media literacy must be integrated into formal and informal education systems before it’s too late

This collection brings together 71 papers by 83 authors from 21 countries presented at the 5th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference, titled “Media, Power and Empowerment”, in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2012. It maps out trends in CEE media research across the entire region and provides insight into the broad span of relevant topics. The contributors to the volume successfully voice the multiple, yet specific, questions relevant to the CEE countries; the papers offer original research results to the reader, and invite them to participate in further debate on CEE media and communications research. To date, there have not been many publications dedicated to outlining the media and communications research interests across the region. This collection shows that the countries of the region indeed have a lot in common – historically, politically, and socially – while also discussing the differences among them, including the multiple political particularities within the unifying label “the East”, and variations in the transformation process and the consequences for concerned societies and their media scenes, as well as the individual lived experiences of the people of the CEE countries.

Comunicación política y elecciones federales en México se adentra en el estudio de los contextos mediáticos que rodearon el proceso electoral de 2112 en México, en el que la Comunicación Política funcionó como una variable de suma importancia.
La obra se organiza alrededor de tres grandes áreas en las que se abordan:
—la significación política de la elección presidencial;
—la imagen y la emotividad en las propuestas políticas;
—el agotamiento del actual modelo de comunicación política.

Comunicación política y elecciones federales en México documenta, analiza y evalúa la incidencia de la comunicación política en el proceso electoral mexicano del año 2012, e identifica su contribución —o inhibición— en la participación ciudadana, la deliberación social y el debate público.

This anthology aims at contributing to the strengthening of international networks, the visibility of current research, and the exchange of experiences about strategies and challenges while promoting the field in each respective context. Despite having different cultural, economic and educational realities, Brazil, Portugal and Spain share common aspects in the field of media education encompassed by this anthology.

To facilitate the spread of information and the partnership among these countries, this is the first time that International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media organizes a publication in the language spoken by its authors, Portuguese and Spanish, official languages of more than 31 countries located in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

An English version of this publication will be made available on the Clearinghouse web site in due course.

El creciente enfoque multijugador parece que domina el single player en los videojuegos porque cada vez existen más usuarios que disfrutan de compartir destrezas con otros jugadores, aunque ese placer suponga desafíos y experiencias frustrantes. Para comprenderlos, es esencial entender los videojuegos como espacios y no como objetos. ¿Qué es un juego multijugador?, ¿qué significa el acrónimo MMORPG?, ¿cuáles son las características del modelo free-to-play?, ¿qué es un mod?, ¿los videojuegos hacen un aporte a los mundos transmedia? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que pueden responderse en este libro, que ofrece un panorama amplio de ejemplos e ideas de las razones que hicieron que el videojuego escapara de los laboratorios universitarios de los años 71 y comenzara su carrera para instalarse en los genes de nuestra cultura. El lector encontrará en sus textos un material útil, ya sea como una introducción al tema o como un material de lectura, principalmente para estudiantes y profesores de los grados de multimedia, videojuegos y comunicación. El volumen presenta algunos aspectos teóricos aplicables, y aunque ofrece una visión en conjunto, los capítulos pueden ser leídos sin un orden específico.

The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways in which content is porous and malleable. In this volume, contributors focus on copyright as it relates to culture. The editors argue that what «counts» as property must be understood as shifting terrain deeply influenced by historical, economic, cultural, religious, and digital perspectives.
Key themes addressed include issues of how:
• Culture is framed, defined, and/or identified in conversations about intellectual property;
• The humanities and other related disciplines are implicated in intellectual property issues;
• The humanities will continue to rub up against copyright (e.g., issues of authorship, authorial agency, ownership of texts);
• Different cultures and bodies of literature approach intellectual property, and how competing dynasties and marginalized voices exist beyond the dominant U.S. copyright paradigm.
Offering a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, Cultures of Copyright offers readers – scholars, researchers, practitioners, theorists, and others – key considerations to contemplate in terms of how we understand copyright’s past and how we chart its futures.

O livro traz o registro de parte das contribuições do evento Seminário Internacional Cultura e Conflito, realizado em 2112, em um panorama que envolve sobretudo cinema, jornalismo, história e cultura formativa. O objetivo da obra é provocar uma repercussão do debate do evento, por meio de reflexões e ações que favoreçam a construção de uma cultura da tolerância e do entendimento recíproco.

New media laws and technologies are currently changing radio in West Africa. Tilo Grätz analyzes this change using the example of the appropriation of radio technologies in Benin. He shows that the processes take place in the interplay of producers, listeners, and technical capabilities under the influence of institutions of media politics. Local radio cultures develop which manifest themselves in typical subjects, program formats, and everyday radio use practices. The most successful programs are interactive and facilitate discussion on social and political as well as personal problems. Technological dramas (Pfaffenberger) accompany the varied development of Beninese radio cultures.

Against the background of an enormous expansion and diversification of both political communication itself and scientific research into its structures, processes, and effects, this volume gives an overview of some of the key theories and findings accumulated by political communication research over the last decades. In order to do so, the volume provides readers with review articles by renowned international authors on various aspects of (I) the normative, regulatory and conceptual foundations of political communication, (II) different situations of political communication (e.g., elections, referendums, social movements, media hypes, crisis and war), (III) the activities of and part played by political actors, (IV) mass media and journalism, (V) characteristics and typical features of media messages, (VI) the role played by citizens as well as (VII) various kinds of effects on citizens. Each section includes several chapters that address specific issues and research problems in the form of comprehensive overviews articles.