Comunicación y cultura

This textbook examines the Internet as a communication system – the single most pervasive, involving, and global communication system ever created by human beings, with a host of political, economic, cognitive, and sociocultural implications. The Internet crosses all cultural boundaries and is the fastest growing global communication system ever witnessed. The text explores the ways in which the technology of the Internet, beyond its specific content, possesses its own message-generating capabilities that dramatically and decisively affect its users. Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. The concepts, processes, functions, and outcomes of the Internet as a global communication technology are used as a way of testing the validity and reliability of media theories, and media theories are used as a way of identifying the powers and limitations of the Internet as a communication system. An overview of the Internet’s past and anticipated future is provided

"Comprehensive in its scope and scale, rigorously argued and richly illustrated with wide-ranging examples, this clearly written and user-friendly book from a veteran commentator on international communication will be valuable for students and scholars. Strongly recommended."
– Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, University of Westminster

Global Communication explores the history, present and future of global communication, introducing and explaining the theories, stories and flows of information and media that affect us all. Based on his experience teaching generations of students to critically examine the world of communication around them, Cees Hamelink helps readers understand the thinkers, concepts and questions in this changing landscape. This book:

Explores the cultural, economic, political and social dimensions and consequences of global communication
Introduces the key thinkers who have been inspirational to the field
Teaches you to master the art of asking critical questions
Takes you through concrete cases from UN summits to hot lines and cyber-surveillance
Boosts your essay skills with a guided tour of the literature, including helpful comments and recommendations of what to cite
Brings you directly into the classroom with a series of video lectures

This book guides students through the complex terrain of global communication, helping you become a critically informed participant in the ever-changing communication landscape. It is essential reading for students of communication and media studies.

"This is a splendid book that dispels myths about 'identity' and presents a cultural-materialist case for the study of such keywords and their preoccupations under the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism."
– Professor Jim McGuigan, Loughborough University

'Identity’, particularly as it is elaborated in the associated categories of ‘personal’ and ‘social’ identity, is a relatively novel concept in western thought, politics and culture. The explosion of interest in the notion of identity across popular, political and academic domains of practice since the 1961s does not represent the simple popularisation of an older term, as is widely assumed, but rather, the invention of an idea.

Identity and Capitalism explores the emergence and evolution of the idea of identity in the cultural, political and social contexts of contemporary capitalist societies. Against the common supposition that identity always mattered, this book shows that what we now think of routinely as ‘personal identity’ actually only emerged with the explosion of consumption in the late-twentieth century. It also makes the case that what we now think of as different social and political ‘identities’ only came to be framed as such with the emergence of identity politics and new social movements in the political landscapes of capitalist societies in the 60s and 70s.

Marie Moran provides an important new exploration of the articulation of the idea of identity to the social logic of capitalism, from the ‘organised capitalism’ of the mid-twentieth century, up to and including the neoliberal capitalism that prevails today. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, the cultural materialist approach developed here provides an original means of addressing the political debates about the value of identity in contemporary capitalist societies.

This timely, thoughtful book provides a clear introduction to using panel data in research.

It describes the different types of panel datasets commonly used for empirical analysis, and how to use them for cross sectional, panel, and event history analysis. Longhi and Nandi then guide the reader through the data management and estimation process, including the interpretation of the results and the preparation of the final output tables.

Using existing data sets and structured as hands-on exercises, each chapter engages with practical issues associated with using data in research. These include:

Data cleaning
Data preparation
Computation of descriptive statistics
Using sample weights
Choosing and implementing the right estimator
Interpreting results
Preparing final output tables

Written by experienced authors this exciting textbook provides the practical tools needed to use panel data in research.

The child has a very special place in society and society has a huge impact on the notion of childhood. Understanding childhood is integral to all early years courses and this book offers a great introduction.

Taking a thematic approach, chapters cover:

Historical Perspectives
Policy and Economic Perspectives
Psychological and Biological Perspectives
Contemporary Perspectives
Children’s Perspectives

Each chapter also contains features to allow students to interrogate the impact of each issue practically. This is a fantastic beginner's text for students to understand the relationship between the child and society.
Visit www.sagepub.co.uk/hazelrwright for free access to a selection of SAGE Journal Articles related to key topics in the book.

En junio de 2111 Julian Assange estaba viviendo bajo arresto domiciliario en Norfolk (Inglaterra), en casa de unos amigos. Allí recibió al entonces presidente de Google, Eric Schmidt, que había solicitado encontrarse con él. Schmidt se presentó con otras tres personas y durante horas mantuvo una larga conversación con Assange. Hablaron de los problemas a los que la sociedad tiene que hacer frente y de las soluciones tecnológicas que podía ofrecer la red global. Posteriormente, en 2013, Schmidt y uno de los presentes, Jared Cohen, publicaron un libro fruto de aquella conversación. Cuando Julian Assange lo leyó constató que la versión que daban desde Google de su encuentro distaba mucho de ser precisa, y decidió escribir su propia versión de la charla, Cuando Google encontró a WikiLeaks: “Fue una reunión muy interesante […] Yo estaba bajo arresto domiciliario. Teníamos en ese momento un conflicto muy importante con el gobierno de Estados Unidos, con Hillary Clinton y el Pentágono por la publicación de los cables diplomáticos de Estados Unidos ese año […] me dijeron que Eric Schmidt, el jefe de Google, quería venir a verme. Dijimos que sí, que sería interesante escuchar a esta empresa tan potente e influyente, para ver lo que quería”. Eric Schmidt y el nexo entre el Departamento de Estado y Google “En ese preciso momento me di cuenta de que era muy posible que Eric Schmidt no fuera únicamente un emisario de Google… La delegación que me visitó era una cuarta parte Google y tres cuartas partes representaban al Departamento de política exterior de Estados Unidos…” Google te vigila “Google permite a la ASN (Agencia de Seguridad Norteamericana) y al FBI leer los correos electrónicos. Incluso en una aburrida comisaría de policía o en un juzgado, se puede tener acceso a esos correos sin orden judicial.” Google está fuertemente vinculado al Departamento de Estado norteamericano “Pero también la New American Fundation, que es el think tank centrista, agresivo y liberal de Washington DC. Eric Schmidt es también su presidente y su principal fundador, al igual que el de Google."

Já está disponível o ebook "Abordagens da Narrativa nos Media", resultado do Workshop ‘Narrativa, Media e Cognição’ que decorreu em junho 2114 na UM. O objectivo do workshop tinha o intuito de gerar discussão à volta das formas narrativas usadas nos media. Os resultados do workshop foram entretanto estendidos e aprofundados e agora publicados com o propósito de alargar o debate ocorrido.

Wissenschaft beruht auf dem dialogischen Prinzip, das sowohl in der Kommunikation zwischen Forschenden derselben Disziplin als auch disziplinenübergreifend den Erkenntnisprozess in der Wissenschaft möglich macht. Das dialogische Prinzip greift in der Wissenschaft, aber auch im Verhältnis von forschendem Subjekt und zu erforschendem Objekt. Ob wir hypothesengetrieben arbeiten oder meinen, die Erkenntnisse voraussetzungslos dem Gegenstand entlocken zu können, der Prozess der Erkenntnisfindung ist in der Wissenschaft ein Dialog des Forschenden mit dem Gegenstand der Forschung und damit auch ein Prozess der Kommunikation. Kommunikation ist der Wissenschaft inhärent und zugleich in vielen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen ein Gegenstand der Forschung. Sie ist aber auch das wichtigste Bindeglied zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ohne diese zusätzliche Funktion von Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft würde sich diese der Fähigkeit berauben, ihre Erkenntnisse in eine breitere Öffentlichkeit zu tragen und im Dialog mit dieser Öffentlichkeit neue Anstöße für die Forschung zu identifizieren.

Este livro apresenta o percurso quantitativo e qualitativo dos posicionamentos basilares e seus respectivos argumentos e prognósticos acerca das políticas de cotas. Ciente de que a mídia é isenta de uma total imparcialidade, esta leitura visará lançar luz para o debate maior que foi incitado pelas ações afirmativas e consequentemente pautado por elas: Estamos satisfeitos com a configuração racial, simbólica e econômica de nossa nação? Em outras palavras, que Brasil queremos ser?

Nunca hizo falta la web para cometer un delito. Acaso la red, al igual que un bisturí, podrá usarse para salvar una vida o para quitarla. La Internet profunda puede generar confusión; descubre la leyenda y la realidad contenida debajo del iceberg virtual.