Sociedad de la información

En tiempos de comunicación digital y de redes sociales, descubre las tendencias actuales del periodismo, las nuevas competencias para los profesionales del sector, los modelos de financiación más innovadores, las técnicas para mejorar tu reputación online, cómo deben ser las nuevas redacciones, las relaciones con la audiencia y los nuevos formatos multiplataforma en los medios de comunicación. "Optimismo para periodistas" está indicado tanto para aquéllos que empiezan como para los profesionales que quieren respuestas ante la crisis de una profesión en constante cambio. A partir de numerosos ejemplos, casos de éxito y útiles herramientas, Franco y Pellicer muestran cómo conseguir contenidos de calidad a través del periodismo de investigación, datos y servicios. Con un toque de frescura y descaro, defienden que hay vida más allá del periodismo y los medios de comunicación tradicionales.

Combines the History of Communication Media, Computer Networks and Cryptography with the Basic Knowledge in these disciplines.

Can be used as a textbook for undergraduate students as well as a reference book for practitioners.

Includes 17 in-depth excurses that provide extensive knowledgeThe authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. This includes an overview of the encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information, as well as images, graphics, and video in the Internet. Furthermore the fundamentals of computer networking, digital security, and cryptography are covered. Thus, the book provides a well-founded access to communication technology of computer networks, the internet, and the WWW. Numerous pictures and images, a subject-index and a detailed list of historical personalities including a glossary for each chapter increase the practical benefit of this book that is well suited as well as for undergraduate students as for working practitioners.

Uma memória digital participativa comum ao conjunto da humanidade está em vias de constituição. Mas no início do séc. XXI, a exploração dessa memória por todos e por cada um é limitada por problemas de opacidade semântica, de incompatibilidade dos sistemas de classificação e de fragmentação lingüística e cultural. Na ausência de modelos computáveis, nós não conseguimos automatizar a maior parte das operações cognitivas de análise, de filtragem, de síntese e de interconexão das informações que permitiriam utilizar vantajosamente a imensa massa de dados que se nos oferecem. Nós não sabemos ainda como transformar sistematicamente esse oceano de dados em conhecimento e ainda menos como transformar o meio digital em observatório reflexivo de nossas inteligências coletivas. A primeira finalidade desta obra é apresentar à comunidade científica e ao público avisado um novo sistema de codificação das significações, graças ao qual as operações sobre o sentido na nova memória digital poderiam se tornar transparentes, inter-operáveis e computáveis. Esse sistema de codificação semântica foi batizado a IEML (Information Economy Meta Language em inglês ou metalinguagem da economia da informação em português). O seu uso poderia contribuir para suprimir os obstáculos que hoje limitam a exploração ideal do meio digital em benefício do desenvolvimento humano em suas dimensões indissociavelmente sociais e pessoais. Se uma comunidade dinâmica de semanticistas e de lingüistas enriquecesse essa linguagem e a fizesse crescer, se um grupo de engenheiros programasse e mantivesse uma coleção de programas explorando as possibilidades computacionais da IEML e se uma massa crítica de utilizadores e de mídias sociais se apropriasse desses programas, eu considero que nós nos engajaríamos em uma nova via científica, técnica e cultural que a longo prazo levaria a um aumento significativo dos processos cognitivos humanos.

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. A key element in the research was the digitization and analysis of Iona and Peter Opie's sound recordings of children's playground and street games from the 1971s and 1980s. This framed and enabled the research team's studies both of the Opies' documents of mid-twentieth-century play culture and, through a two-year ethnographic study of play and games in two primary school playgrounds, contemporary children's play cultures. In addition the research included the use of a prototype computer game to capture playground games and the making of a documentary film. Drawing on this extraordinary data set, the volume poses three questions: What do these hitherto unseen sources reveal about the games, songs and rhymes the Opies and others collected in the mid-twentieth century? What has happened to these vernacular forms? How are the forms of vernacular play that are transmitted in playgrounds, homes and streets transfigured in the new media age? In addressing these questions, the contributors reflect on the changing face of childhood in the twenty-first century – in relation to questions of gender and power and with attention to the children's own participation in producing the ethnographic record of their lives.

This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring across society.

Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies.

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our lifeworlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media communication as a special form of social action, this work reconsiders the key concepts of social action theory, pragmatism, communication theory, as well as film, game, and television theory. It thus integrates agency as the key to understanding ‘doing media’ and at the same time conceptualizes agency as a specific mode of involvement across media boundaries. This approach amalgamates miscellaneous ideas and conceptions such as interactivity, participation, cognitive control, play or empowerment and applies the theoretical considerations on the basis of textual analyses of the films Inception and The Proposal, the TV shows Lost and I’m a Celebrity and the video games Grand Theft Auto IV, and The Walking Dead.

Esta es la sexta entrega de la serie anual que BBVA dedica a explorar y difundir conocimiento sobre las cuestiones clave de nuestra época. Se trata de una aproximación a los cambios que está generando internet en el ámbito social, cultural, económico, político, científico, pero también en la vida diaria de las personas: sus hábitos de relación, de ocio y de trabajo.

En ella, firmas de primer orden mundial, pero con un lenguaje accesible, ponen a nuestro alcance el más actualizado conocimiento sobre internet como agente de cambio. Entre estos autores, encontramos a Yochai Benkler, Federico Casalegno, Manuel Castells, Edward Castronova, David Crystal, Zaryn Dentzel, Paul DiMaggio, Lucien Engelen, David Gelertner, Francisco González, Peter Hirshberg, Mikko Hypponen, Thomas W. Malone, Evgeny Morozov, Michael Nielsen, Dan Schiller, Neil Selwyn, Juan Ignacio Vázquez y Patrick Wikström.

Preguntas y respuestas. En torno a ellas se organiza esta guía, concebida como un instrumento de trabajo para el día a día de cualquier docente o investigador. La convergencia entre lo comunicativo, lo educativo y lo tecnológico ha generado una gran cantidad de cambios que afectan al desempeño profesional de comunicadores, profesores, investigadores, etc. Los temas para la reflexión y el debate son muchos: El rol del educador, el uso de Internet en el aprendizaje, los wikis y los weblogs “educativos”, los videojuegos para “aprender” y un sinfín de nuevos conceptos, enfoques, herramientas y recursos. Son muchas preguntas que exigen muchas respuestas. Estas páginas son el resultado de un objetivo que siempre estará inacabado: Las preguntas –por suerte– se renuevan, se reinventan… y, en definitiva, nunca nos abandonan. Nosotros, desde el Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación y desde nuestro Máster de Comunicación y Educación, seguiremos aprendiendo “de” y “con” ellas, con la ayuda de nuestros profesores, investigadores y alumnos. Intentando encontrar las mejores respuestas. Pero sin olvidar a Einstein: “Lo importante es no dejar de hacerse preguntas”.

Despite it being a debated issue in recent decades, there is in fact no consensus regarding the potentialities of the Internet for the strengthening of citizens’ political participation and – by extension – of democracy itself. Nonetheless, this “new medium”, and, in particular, its Web 2.1 version has become the cornerstone of communication strategies for both political parties and their candidates.

Several questions emerge from the debate about the impact of the internet on political participation. First of all, the very concept of political participa- tion. Despite its importance in the theory of democracy, this concept is not always easy to define with rigor particularly when it comes to the form and boundaries of such participation. Actually, the ultimate issue is whether we are currently witnessing a “crisis of participation” or quite the contrary, the rise of alternative forms thereof. Secondly, the debate about the so-called “crisis of democracy” is also central when thinking about political participa- tion in our times. Democratic societies are experiencing a democratic deficit, to a large extend a crisis of confidence in traditional political parties, by which citizens feel misrepresented and hence alienated from righteous participation in their political destiny.

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El ser humano está obligado a planifi car. A prever lo que podría ocurrir, para estar preparado. Pero el mundo cada vez va más rápido, y la información de que disponemos se acumula a un ritmo cada vez mayor. Cualquier intento de organizar los datos que nos llegan y de utilizarlos para dilucidar qué podría ocurrir a continuación puede llevar al colapso y al aturdimiento.

En este libro, Nate Silver, especialista en predicciones —saltó a la fama durante la segunda campaña presidencial de Obama, en la que predijo casi al milímetro el número de votos que le darían la victoria— investiga cómo podemos distinguir, en medio del universo de datos que nos rodean, la información que es valiosa de la que no lo es. Visita para ello a expertos en todo tipo de áreas (personas cuyo trabajo consiste en prevenir huracanes y personas que tratan de
prever quién ganará un partido determinado de béisbol; personas que juegan al póker y tratan de predecir los movimientos del contrario y personas que trabajan en el mercado de valores y tratan de adelantarse a las subidas y bajadas del mercado) y recopila sus métodos para aprender de ellos.