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«Superhéroes y superescenarios. El potencial de las redes y sus comunidades», CONTRERAS, Ruth S. (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

Alrededor de los videojuegos existen diversas comunidades activas donde las personas se reúnen para compartir, intercambiar o debatir ideas de manera regular y donde su principal actividad o medio es “el juego”, y es el principal motivo que les mantiene unidos. Las redes sociales son un producto de estas comunidades y operan en espacios tanto reales como virtuales, permitiendo escalar la cooperación y la colaboración hasta lograr diversas acciones en conjunto porque gracias a ellas es posible que todo se disemine y crezca exponencialmente. Entender cómo funcionan las redes, es una forma de entender lo que acontece con cada jugador y con los grupos que conforman a las comunidades. Es además un paso necesario para comprender las nuevas formas de interacción social que existen en la era digital.

«Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage», POLLOCK, John C. (Ed.) (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

LibrosPeriodismo

This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labor; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee rights, immigration reform, and post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States.

The research asks questions such as: What are the principal catalysts that propel rights issues into media agendas? Why do some surface more quickly than others? And how do the demographics of cross-national reporting differ from those driving multi-city US nationwide coverage of rights claims?

Using community structure theory and innovative Media Vector content analysis, the eight chapters of this book reveal three striking patterns that show how differences in female empowerment, social or economic vulnerability, and Midwestern newspaper geographic location, link powerfully with variations in coverage of rights issues.

The patterns connecting demographics and rights claims confirm that coverage of human rights can mirror the concerns of stakeholders and vulnerable groups, contrary to conventional assumptions that media typically serve as "guard dogs" reinforcing the interests of political and economic elites.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the "Atlantic Journal of Communication".

«Terms of Service. Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection», SILVERMAN, Jacob (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

LibrosSociedad de la información

Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystalizes this current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of what is share-worthy; and the surveillance state operated by social media platforms—Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others—to mine our personal data for advertising revenue, an invasion of our lives that is as pervasive as government spying.

Jacob Silverman calls for social media users to take back ownership of their digital selves from the Silicon Valley corporations who claim to know what's best for them. Integrating politics, sociology, national security, pop culture, and technology, he reveals the surprising conformity at the heart of Internet culture—explaining how social media companies engineer their products to encourage shallow engagement and discourage dissent. Reflecting on the collapsed barriers between our private and public lives, Silverman brings into focus the inner conflict we feel when deciding what to share and what to "like," and explains how we can take the steps we need to free ourselves from its grip.

«Charlatanería y cultura científica en el siglo XIX. Vidas paralelas», PODGOMY, Irina (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

Historia de la comunicaciónLibros

A uno y otro lado del continente americano abundaron los estafadores, impostores, publicistas que cargaban un cajón con pájaros disecados, libros, libretas y unos pocos instrumentos y que lograron que se les abrieran las puertas de las oficinas del gobierno, de los museos y de las asociaciones científicas nacionales. La historia de la ciencia no puede evitar toparse con ellos: en todos los tiempos han surgido charlatanes que han buscado obtener provecho político, ideológico o económico: falsos cónsules, naturalistas, poetisas y sabios abundan en la prensa y las revistas científicas, en los programas de fiestas de la alta sociedad y conferencias, en los discursos de bienvenida y en los juicios en los tribunales. Curiosamente, la historiografía no habla de ellos, como si no los viera, o, cuando los nombra, repite sus palabras sin cuestionarlas. En definitiva, la historia está plagada de ejemplos de charlatanes.

«El beso de Judas. Fotografía y verdad», FONTCUBERTA, Joan (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

Expresiones audiovisualesLibros

En el mundo contemporáneo las apariencias han sustituido a la realidad. No obstante, la fotografía, una tecnología históricamente al servicio de la verdad, sigue ejerciendo una función de mecanismo ortopédico de la conciencia moderna: la cámara no miente, toda fotografía es una evidencia. A partir de vivencias personales, el autor crítica esta creencia y reflexiona sobre aspectos fundamentales de la creación y de la cultura actual.

Además de un nuevo diseño, cubierta y encuadernación, esta nueva edición incluye un prefacio del autor, escrito en abril de 2111, en el que explica el origen y gestación de El beso de Judas así como su recorrido hasta hoy.

«Consumerism on TV», HULME, Alison (Ed.) (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

Expresiones audiovisualesLibros

'This is an innovative collection, based on original research and drawing on different countries and different times, that maps the social meaning of consumerism. It goes beyond the "false consciousness vs. authentic self-expression" debate to say new things about a central feature of contemporary society.' James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 'Surveying the field from Essex girls to haute couture fashionistas, and from post-war austerity to postmodern extravagance, this collection opens up an impressive range of perceptive debates on how popular television genres (comedies, dramas, lifestyle shows and beyond) have represented the attractions, contradictions, pleasures and pitfalls of consumer society. This is a volume full of astute insights, thoughtful perspectives and constructive provocations.' Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex, UK

«Imedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials», KEMBER, Sarah (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

LibrosSociología de la comunicación

What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity? Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, this book examines the gendering of current and future media technologies such as smart phones, Google glass, robot nurses, tablets and face recognition. Kember argues that there is a tendency to affirm and celebrate the existence of smart and often sexist objects, environments and materials in themselves; to elide writing and other forms of mediation; and to engage in disembodied knowledge practices. Disembodied knowledge practices tend towards a scientism that currently includes physics envy and are also masculinist. Where there is some degree of convergence between masculinist and feminist thinking about objects, environments and materials, there is also divergence, conflict and the possible opening towards a politics of imedia. Presenting a lively manifesto for refiguring imedia, this book forms an often neglected gender critique of developments in smart technologies and will be essential reading for scholars in Communication Studies, Cultural and Media, Science and Technology and Feminism.

«Consumption, Media and Culture in South Africa: Perspectives on Freedom and the Public», IQANI, Mehita; KENNY, Bridget (Eds.) (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

Comunicación y culturaLibros

This book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of critical scholarly work on consumer culture in South Africa, exploring the cultural, political, economic, and social aspects of consumption in post-Apartheid society.

From sushi and Japanese diplomacy to Queen Sophie’s writhing gown, from middle class Sowetan golfers to an indebted working class citizenry, from wedding websites to wedding nostalgia, from the liberation of consuming to the low wage labour of selling, the chapters in this book demonstrate a variety of themes, showing that to start with consumption, rather than ending with it, allows for new insights into long-standing areas of social research. By mapping, exploring and theorizing the diverse aspects of consumption and consumer culture, the volume collectively works towards a fresh set of empirically rooted conceptual commentaries on the politics, economics, and social dynamics of modern South Africa. This effort, in turn, can serve as a foundation for thinking less parochially about neoliberal power and consumer culture.

On a global scale, studying consumption in South Africa matters because in some ways the country serves as a microcosm for global patterns of income inequality, race-based economic oppression, and hopes for the material betterment of life. By exploring what consumption means on the ‘local’ scale in South Africa, the possibility arises to trace new global links and dissonances. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts.

«Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media», RYAN, Marie-Laure (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

LibrosTeorías de la comunicación y metodología

Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game" dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality 2, the questions raised by the new interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions.

Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Ryan applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of narrative experience that encompasses reading, watching, and playing. The book weighs traditional literary narratives against the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution of the past thirty years, including hypertext, electronic poetry, interactive drama, digital installation art, computer games, and multi-user online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft.

In this completely revised edition, Ryan reflects on the developments that have taken place over the past fifteen years in terms of both theory and practice and focuses on the increase of narrativity in video games and its corresponding loss in experimental digital literature. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken―or hopes to take―in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.

«Handbook of Media Economics, Vol 1b», ANDERSON, Simon; WALDFOGEL, Joel; STROMBERG, David (Eds.) (2015)

1 de enero de 2015

Economía de la comunicaciónLibros

Handbook of Media Economics provides valuable information on a unique field that has its own theories, evidence, and policies. Understanding the media is important for society, and while new technologies are altering the media, they are also affecting our understanding of their economics. The book spans the large scope of media economics, simultaneously offering in-depth analysis of particular topics, including the economics of why media are important, how media work (including financing sources, institutional settings, and regulation), what determines media content (including media bias), and the effects of new technologies. The book provides a powerful introduction for those interested in starting research in media economics. * Helps academic and non-academic economists understand recent rapid changes in theoretical and empirical advances, in structural empirical methods, and in the media industry's connection with the democratic process* Presents the only detailed summary of media economics that emphasizes political economy, merger policy, and competition policy* Pays special attention to the economic influences of the Internet, including developments in social media, user-generated content, and advertising, as well as the Internet's effects on newspapers, radio, and television