Sociología de la comunicación

Students are influenced by their peer networks instead of the invisible hand of meritocracy. This statement by David Riesman is still true today. The volume analyses how students make use of social connections and the expanding opportunities offered by contemporary tertiary education. The results show that the resources provided by higher education institutions may be termed social capital, adding a new dimension to literature related to students and the institutional environment.

This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. This second edition includes more resources, photographs, and updated information as well as two new chapters: one exploring the pedagogical potential for using photography in the classroom and the other documenting a successful university course on critical media literacy for new teachers. The book explores the theoretical underpinnings of critical media literacy and analyzes a case study involving an elementary school that received a federal grant to integrate media literacy and the arts into the curriculum. Combining cultural studies with critical pedagogy, critical media literacy aims to expand the notion of literacy to include different forms of mass communication, information communication technologies, and popular culture, as well as deepen the potential of education to critically analyze relationships between media and audiences, information, and power. This book is a valuable addition to any education course or teacher preparation program that wants to promote twenty-first century literacy skills, social justice, civic participation, media education, or critical uses of technology. Communications classes will also find it useful as it explores and applies key concepts of cultural studies and media education.

Cosmopolitanism and the Media explores the diverse implications of today's digital media environment in relation to people's worldviews and social practices. The book presents an account of the relationship between cosmopolitanized lifeworlds and forces of surveillance, control and mobility, as well as a critique of social power and reproduction in our mediatized society.

Las ciencias y las técnicas han formado parte, desde el principio de la civilización, del desarrollo de la sociedad. Los cambios que han caracterizado las diferentes etapas del pensamiento científico se han producido dentro del marco de determinadas formaciones sociales y en condiciones específicas de producción del conocimiento. En este libro se aborda la manera en que se relacionan ciencia y sociedad: las formas de valorización social de las investigaciones, el sistema de trabajo en el interior de los laboratorios, las razones ideológicas de las teorías científicas, los mecanismos de financiación de la indagaciones científicas, las luchas jerárquicas entre los sabios y académicos, etc. Un conjunto de problemas que están más que nunca implicados en nuestros grandes problemas sociales. La explosión de las nanotecnologías, la controversia sobre los OGM, el cambio climático, etc., tantas temáticas cuya comprensión y control implican también conocer mejor las dinámicas sociales que forman parte de la producción de conocimientos y de las innovaciones. La presente obra, refundición de Sociología de las ciencias, publicada en 1995, muestra un planteamiento completo de todos estos problemas, con numerosos ejemplos y una muy amplia documentación. Presenta las diferentes formas de articulación ciencia/sociedad (emergencia de las ciencias, dinámica de innovación y democracia técnica) y los principales mecanismos sociales que hacen vivir a las ciencias (instituciones, organizaciones, intercambios entre investigadores, elaboración de contenidos, etc.). Este libro permite aprehender tanto la cultura material y cognitiva de un laboratorio como el funcionamiento del mercado de empleo científico. Más allá de la referencia a los grandes autores, corrientes de pensamiento y debates, ayuda a comprender mejor qué la sociedad y aquellas personas que tiene el poder decisorio fuerzan el desarrollo de las ciencias y de las técnicas, y qué los artesanos de estas últimas imponen a cambio sus lógicas propias. Habla así sobre la sociología de "la sociedad de los conocimientos”.

This book examines how the international community responds to mass atrocities. It argues that states and other international actors have developed three sets of norms and practices to address such situations. The first is the responsibility to protect, an assertion that when states cannot or will not stop genocide, crimes against humanity, and widespread war crimes in their territory, or are responsible for their commission, the international community has a duty to transgress sovereignty, including through the use of force, to protect civilians and stop the atrocities. Second is the recognition of the responsibility to prosecute those who commit such atrocities, institutionalized in the International Criminal Court, as well as ad hoc tribunals and the exercise of universal jurisdiction. Third is the provision of humanitarian assistance to those affected by violent conflict, identified as the responsibility to palliate since humanitarian assistance can never do more than provide temporary relief for civilians caught in war.

The book analyses how these three responsibilities operate individually and together in four interrelated African case studies – Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Darfur. A core argument is that while these responsibilities have all arisen in the context of an ongoing global revolution in the protection of human rights, they do not always mutually support each other. Indeed, policymakers and practitioners face multiple conundrums when implementing one or more of these responses. Further, while norms have been accepted, there is frequently little will or capacity on the part of states and intergovernmental organizations to engage in appropriate action to protect civilians. The book uniquely examines atrocity response from multiple perspectives simultaneously, and will be of interest to international policymakers and those who are practically involved in stopping atrocities and protecting civilians in the midst of violent conflict, as well as all who are concerned about protecting people in conflict.

This volume unravels the debates on the »Participation Age«: Instead of perpetuating visions of social »all-inclusion« or the »digital divide«, the collection reclaims collectivity as an effect of technological and historical conditions. Thinking of participation both as promise and duty, the contributions analyse the attractions and impositions connected to the socio-technical formation of collectivities. The constraints of participation are addressed by focusing on the mutual shaping of user practices and technological environments. It is hence a relational thinking that allows specifying the manifold interconnections of technology, practices and discourses.

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.