Libros

Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education shows how researchers working in the area of technology and education can use critical perspectives to broaden the "ed-tech" research imagination, opening up new topics, asking new questions, developing theory and articulating an agenda for informed action.

Digital Online Culture, Identity and Schooling in the Twenty-First Century provides a cultural, ideological critique of identity construction in the context of virtualization. Kimberly Rosenfeld explores the growing number of people who no longer reside in one physical reality but live, work, and play in multiple realities. Rosenfeld's critique of neo-liberal practices in the digital environment brings to light the on-going hegemonic and counter-hegemonic battles over control of education in the digital age. Rosenfeld draws conclusions for empowering the population through schooling, and how it should understand, respond to, and help individuals live out the information revolution.

Like nations and regions, cities have become aware of the importance of building a convincing reputation to engage their local and global stakeholders – residents, businesses, investors, tourists, students, sports and cultural organisations. Thanks to this wide potential reach, the city brand has expanded from a mere tourism strategy into a multifaceted tool of e-governance in the hands of local administrations and their civic partners by addressing key issues such as active citizenship, social inclusion and promotion of cultural heritage and mega-events like world fairs. This book explores city branding in the public sector from a privileged linguistic, discursive and semiotic perspective, analysing how local municipal governments use new media in their communication agendas.

American Education in Popular Media examines how popular media including mass magazines, radio, film, and television have represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Historical essays explore prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested purposes of schooling in American society. Terzian and Ryan highlight the educative and normative dimensions of popular media in outlining roles for teachers, students, and administrators at educational institutions ranging from elementary schools to universities.

This study shares the tendency, which has been widely maintained in Europe over recent years, to approach the problems of communication and the culture industry with the tools of economic theory. The oldest approaches to the mass communications media have often been criticized, and basically viewed from the standpoint of political domination and ideological reproduction. The critical aspect of the communication and culture economy, by contrast, is that attention has been focused on investigating the functions of the media in the process of capital accumulation, thereby prioritizing the problems of advertising and the mass communications media as a privileged locus for the accumulation of capital at the current stage of capitalist development. Drawing on Marxist theory and concepts, as well as on various theoretical contributions developed by prominent political economists, Bolaño develops a unique approach to understanding the culture industry, offering an interesting intervention in debates surrounding media and communication.

This book brings together a range of perspectives from around the globe to address questions of media ethics and justice both in local contexts and in a transnational, global environment. A common denominator running through such disparate investigations of theories and practices of media ethics and justice in democracies as diverse as India, South Africa, Pakistan, and the United States, is how specific media practices relate to the global. There is general acknowledgement that similarities between ethical systems have to emerge in local contexts, rather than the other way around. In presentation of case studies and philosophical debates, the concept of justice in media ethics is illuminated from various angles. A common theme in these essays is the acknowledgement that ethics and justice are central to the evolution of a democratic public sphere saturated with media images and narratives.

Los datos geográficos están adquiriendo cada vez más importancia, tanto social como económica. La gestión, «curación» y preservación de estos datos debe llevarse a cabo por equipos multidisciplinares compuestos tanto por geógrafos o informáticos, como por bibliotecarios. Las bibliotecas y las unidades de información pueden ejercer un papel clave en el ciclo de vida de los datos geográficos, mediante la aplicación de sus conocimientos y saber-hacer acumulado, y ejerciendo un papel dinamizador en la comunidad universitaria. Sin embargo, la oferta de servicios de información geográficos desde las bibliotecas académicas, con larga tradición en algunos países, son aún percibidos como lejanos en el contexto español. Este libro quiere mostrar a la comunidad bibliotecaria de qué forma puede entrar en la revolución de los datos geográficos, participando en su gestión y beneficiándose de su uso.