Sociología de la comunicación

La cultura hip-hop surgió en los guetos de Nueva York (Estados Unidos) en la década de 1971. Se trata de un producto colectivo, que abarca diferentes manifestaciones artísticas, música (rap y DJs), artes visuales (grafiti) y baile (break). Pero hay otro elemento más en juego, el compromiso político. Con fuerte influencia de los movimientos negros de la década de 1960 y de la cultura de la calle, el Hip-Hop es la síntesis radical de una producción cultural de base africana que propone nuevos análisis de la realidad a través de la denuncia del racismo. Las enormes desigualdades sociales y la discriminación sufrida por los individuos (por el color de su piel, la apariencia física, la forma de vestirse, el lugar de residencia…), mayor en el caso de las mujeres, son cuestiones abordadas por los jóvenes de las periferias urbanas a través del Hip-Hop.

This book focuses on how human interactions with technology and information systems could have important ethical implications for both businesses and society at large. By debating issues such as a law for robots, digital healthcare, and codes of conduct in the educational sector, this volume provides provocative insights which challenge students, scholars and anyone concerned with information in society to think critically and draw their own conclusions. Throughout the chapters brought together here, the authors offer relevant theoretical and empirical contributions, which relate to a variety of academic fields, including philosophy, law and management sciences. The subjects covered in the book will also appeal to a large audience from the human, social and economic sciences.

Neste livro os leitores são convidados a refletir sobre os trânsitos e fluxos da memória na seara da comunicação e do consumo. Afinal, pelas linguagens do consumo, comunicamos nossos pertencimentos, identidades, sonhos, desejos. Também ali se semeiam e sedimentam modos de narrar o vivido, entrelaçando a cultura às tramas da memória e as práticas de consumo à ontologia do nosso ser.
Os caminhos trilhados pelos dezoito autores desta obra, que representam seis universidades brasileiras e duas instituições europeias, trazem, nas pegadas da memória, reflexões singulares sobre a comunicação e o consumo a partir de temas e objetos específicos. Trata-se de leituras próprias, pequenas janelas que dialogam rizomaticamente entre si. Desejamos, assim, que os leitores tenham o tempo e o prazer de se perder pelas páginas desta obra. Sem bússola. Livres de mapas ou bulas. Cobiçamos que, desse modo, as diversas propostas que esta obra traz possam ser degustadas com o devido vagar para que, a partir da memória, indaguemos o lugar do consumo nos estudos em comunicação.

Mediers känsla för kön är skriven i en tid av stora mediala förändringar. Ny kommunikationsteknologi har öppnat för nya sätt att bruka medierat innehåll. Att upprätthålla särskiljande mellan å ena sidan ”producenter” och å andra sidan ”konsumenter” blir allt mer knepigt och irrelevant.
Medier kan ses som ett av de viktigaste områdena för hur idéer om kön och om normer kring kvinnligt och manligt formas, representeras och förs vidare.

Mediebarometern belyser människors konsumtion av alla slags medier en genomsnittlig dag, oavsett distributionsteknik. Syftet var redan från starten att beskriva tendenser och förändringar i människors mediekonsumtion över tid, snarare än att fokusera nivåer enskilda år. Undersökningen genomfördes första gången 1979 och har sedan dess genomförts varje år. Den översiktspublikation som nu utges är alltså den 36e i ordningen, vilket gör Mediebarometern till en unik tidsserie.

Cette étude alliant l’épistémologie du vieux continent à la pragmatique américaine présente une vaste synthèse des recherches et des solutions industrielles dans l’ensemble des médias informatisés. Elle se base sur une hypothèse immersive qui postule le parallélisme entre l’évolution des médias et celle des périphériques d’ordinateurs. Ce livre réactualise l’épistémo-praxéologie cybernétique à l’aune de la neurophysiologie. Les médias sont une externalisation de l’auto-coévolution bio-culturelle où le sujet coévolue avec l’environnement issu de sa propre création. Leur progrès actuel n’est pas le perfectionnement des dispositifs mais l’élaboration de l’ergonomie sensorielle apte à produire des effets cérébraux de l’adhésion aux figures narratives et fictionnelles. Cette tendance technologique culmine dans le phénomène de ré-analogisation.

Amongst Digital Humanists brings an ethnographic account of the changing landscape of humanities scholarship as it affects individual scholars, academic fields and institutions, and argues for a pluralistic vision of digital knowledge production in the humanities. Based on fieldwork conducted at twenty-three academic and funding institutions in the US and Europe and on interviews with researchers, students, librarians, web developers, policy makers, and funders, this study shows how digital technologies transform the ways humanists envision, carry out, communicate, and organize their work and approach their objects of inquiry.

Em muitos aspectos, a emergência e proliferação de dispositivos móveis de comunicação digital constitui um terreno de experimentação por parte dos actores sociais, de novas vias exploradas por organizações comerciais e estatais, de potenciais transformações culturais onde se jogam as lógicas e as normas da dicotomia público/privado, e portanto também constitui um fértil terreno de questionamento académico. Este volume corresponde a uma primeira fase do projeto de investigação “Público e Privado nas Comunicações Móveis”, desenvolvido no LabCom en-tre 2113 e 2015. Nele damos realce, evidentemente, ao campo comunicacional, incluindo aspectos como a extensão e o carácter da audiência (que à luz da dicotomia pode ser definida como aberta ou fechada) ou a natureza dos conteúdos comunicativos (que apela a uma distinção – problemática – entre o pessoal e o geral).
Também estes aspectos estão em causa com a tecnologia móvel cujos dispositivos tendencialmente ubíquos compaginam a comunicação “ponto a ponto” com a comunicação em rede e a comunicação “de massas”. Quando os utilizadores comutam constantemente entre actos de interacção, de consumo, de partilha, de produção e de circulação de conteúdos, que nitidez se mantém quanto à noção da audiência? Que critérios de público e de privado se aplicam a ‘conteúdos’ tão distintos como uma foto que se capta e difunde, uma conversa ao telefone ou os dados que se associa a uma aplicação de smartphone?

The ability of organisations to cyberconnect is becoming increasingly important for superior performance. Cyberconnecting: The Three Lenses of Diversity by Dr Priya E. Abraham explains how to establish connections across technological, cultural and social boundaries, mirrored in organisations succeeding in today’s hybrid business world.

Some companies create and innovate technology; others use and adopt it; but in the cyberage, both must closely interconnect tech with human behaviour. Face-to-face and cyber-interactions are at the heart of effective work-based relationships, which in turn increase organisational performance. To build these effective business relations, organisations must foster the discovery muscle – curiosity combined with skills – in individuals.

Priya E. Abraham shows how seemingly opposing domains (technology, business anthropology and diversity) best leverage interactions for the benefit of organisation development, using findings from practitioner-focused research conducted when leading complex cross-boundary projects in the telecommunications and mobile learning industries.

Tools from business anthropology help uncover people’s diverse needs and expectations in a cyberconnected world. Identity portfolios need reflection in development solutions of face-to-face and mobile applications. Solutions uncovered by qualitative research methods help close the gap between human behaviour and tech to engage internal and external stakeholders.

The book presents a much-needed strategic framework required for cyberconnecting: 'The Three Lenses of Diversity’, designed to organise thinking in the navigation of technological, cultural, and social boundaries.

This book deepens the understanding of the work carried out by professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy, a period of radical changes that saw an emergence of female talent. Although most of the literature on women and media deals with female film directors, this book also addresses television, a medium where the presence of women was significant throughout this period. This book makes an important contribution to the study of the history of women in Spanish media, focusing on the work of some well-known names, while also rescuing from oblivion others now forgotten. It brings together scholars from Spain, the United States and Ireland to analyze films and television programs written or directed by female professionals such as Pilar Miró, Josefina Molina, Cecilia Bartolomé, Rosa Montero, Carmen Martín Gaite, Cristina Andreu, Isabel Coixet and Paloma Chamorro. The book also includes four interviews with screenwriter Esmeralda Adam, television executive Carmen Caffarel, filmmaker Ana Díez and television director Matilde Fernández. Their reflections on personal and professional experiences shed light on the changes that took place in Spanish society during this period and the challenges they have faced in their careers.