Tecnologías de la comunicación

Este libro constituye una amplia aportación que recoge estudios avanzados en torno a aspectos relevantes de investigación en disciplinas humanísticas dentro del espacio de las Nuevas Tecnologías. La edición se compone de cinco partes y un apéndice, cuyos contenidos representan elementos sustanciales de cada una de las Áreas de conocimiento implicadas, que, a su vez, desarrollan propuestas novedosas en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje universitarios. Sus contribuciones destacan lo digital y tecnológico no solo como vía para conseguir datos con mayor precisión y rapidez sino que se nos presenta ya como inherente a las propias disciplinas. Geografía y Territorio, Arte e Historia, Filología en su vertiente lingüística, Traducción y Enseñanza de Idiomas, y Literatura Comparada, Teoría Literaria, Poesía y Crítica Anglosajona, junto al Apéndice sobre Inteligencia artificial, configuran el Índice del volumen, que, desde el comienzo, sitúa sus argumentaciones en el horizonte de las directrices europeas, formalizando, al mismo tiempo, con respecto a las Humanidades, orientaciones altamente positivas para un futuro de excelencia en el quehacer universitario.

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world

With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens by which many of us apprehend and communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism.

In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding the transformations wrought by these image-making and sharing technologies and the cultural objects they have ushered in: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.

Kevin Mitnick fue el hacker más evasivo de la historia, que accedió a ordenadores y redes de las agencias y compañías más grandes del mundo, aparentemente impenetrables, como Motorola, Sun Microsystems o Paci’c Bell. Para Kevin, el hackeo no se trataba solo de alcanzar avances tecnológicos, era un juego de confianza que requería burlar y confundir para acceder a valiosas informaciones. Impulsado por un fuerte estímulo para lograr lo imposible, engañando a los empleados para obtener información privada y maniobrando a través de capas de seguridad, obtuvo acceso a datos que nadie podía ver.

Vivimos en la edad del algoritmo. Las decisiones que afectan a nuestras vidas no están hechas por humanos, sino por modelos matemáticos. En teoría, esto debería conducir a una mayor equidad: todos son juzgados de acuerdo con las mismas reglas, sin sesgo. Pero en realidad, ocurre exactamente lo contrario. Los modelos que se utilizan en la actualidad son opacos, no regulados e incontestables, incluso cuando están equivocados. Esto deriva en un refuerzo de la discriminación: si un estudiante pobre no puede obtener un préstamo porque un modelo de préstamo lo considera demasiado arriesgado (en virtud de su código postal), quedará excluido del tipo de educación que podría sacarlo de la pobreza, produciéndose una espiral viciosa. Los modelos apuntalan a los afortunados y castigan a los oprimidos: bienvenido al lado oscuro del big data. O’Neil expone los modelos que dan forma a nuestro futuro, como individuos y como sociedad. Estas «armas de destrucción matemática» califican a maestros y estudiantes, ordenan currículos, conceden (o niegan) préstamos, evalúan a los trabajadores, se dirigen a los votantes, fijan la libertad condicional y monitorean nuestra salud.

Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, and Zagreb. This pan-European affiliation of artists generated a continuous stream of innovative artistic statements through the 1960s, incorporating non-traditional materials and new technologies to create kinetic art, light installations, performances, immersive multimedia installations, monumental land art, and the communication media of video and television. They transformed the visual arts from the inanimate objet d'art to a sensory experience by adopting the ascendant philosophy of Phenomenology as their conceptual foundation. Drawing from a decade of research on unpublished archives of the artists and critics of this period, this publication positions Group ZERO as a catalytic art moment in the transition from modern to contemporary art.

From the quality of the air we breathe to the national leaders we choose, data and statistics are a pervasive feature of daily life and daily news. But how do news, numbers and public opinion interact with each other – and with what impacts on society at large?

Featuring an international roster of established and emerging scholars, this book is the first comprehensive collection of research into the little understood processes underpinning the uses/misuses of statistical information in journalism and their socio-psychological and political effects. Moving beyond the hype around “data journalism," News, Numbers and Public Opinion delves into a range of more latent, fundamental questions such as:

· Is it true that most citizens and journalists do not have the necessary skills and resources to critically process and assess numbers?

· How do/should journalists make sense of the increasingly data-driven world?

· What strategies, formats and frames do journalists use to gather and represent different types of statistical data in their stories?

· What are the socio-psychological and political effects of such data gathering and representation routines, formats and frames on the way people acquire knowledge and form attitudes?

· What skills and resources do journalists and publics need to deal effectively with the influx of numbers into in daily work and life – and how can newsrooms and journalism schools meet that need?

The book is a must-read for not only journalists, journalism and media scholars, statisticians and data scientists but also anybody interested in the interplay between journalism, statistics and society.

La tecnología actual tiene pocas limitaciones. Hasta ahora hemos construido ecosistemas empresariales en los que el incentivo para desarrollar cualquier cosa nos ha llevado a progresar de manera rapidísima, a crear un escenario que multiplica por mucho el dinamismo innovador de cualquier tiempo pasado, y a acelerar el bienestar y el nivel de desarrollo de la gran mayoría de la población.

Pero este escenario está plagado de riesgos. La competencia incesante, además del progreso, ha llevado a la civilización humana a un escenario de emergencia climática insostenible en el que su final ya no es algo descartable. Por eso es necesario poner en duda el modelo y la noción de crecimiento sin límite que hemos mantenido desde la Revolución Industrial.

Enrique Dans, uno de los especialistas en tecnología más reputados del mundo hispano, aborda a partir de numerosos estudios científicos, pero también de historias personales, experiencias empresariales e indicadores económicos, la pregunta qué todos nos hacemos: ¿cómo será el futuro? ¿Qué impacto tendrá en él la tecnología? ¿Cómo puede esta ayudarnos a resolver nuestros problemas más acuciantes?

Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we are led to believe. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent their careers at the forefront of AI research and have witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the field, but they argue that a computer winning in games like Jeopardy and go does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or superintelligent machines. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules. These approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The world we live in is wildly complex and open-ended. How can we bridge this gap? What will the consequences be when we do? Marcus and Davis show us what we need to first accomplish before we get there and argue that if we are wise along the way, we won't need to worry about a future of machine overlords. If we heed their advice, humanity can create an AI that we can trust in our homes, our cars, and our doctor's offices.
Reboot provides a lucid, clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of what we can achieve and how AI can make our lives better.

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life.This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture.

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In this timely book, critical theorist Christian Fuchs asks: What is nationalism and what is the role of social media in the communication of nationalist ideology?
Advancing an applied Marxist theory of nationalism, Fuchs explores nationalist discourse in the world of contemporary digital capitalism that is shaped by social media, big data, fake news, targeted advertising, bots, algorithmic politics, and a high-speed online attention economy. Through two case studies of the German and Austrian 2017 federal elections, the book goes on to develop a critical theory of nationalism that is grounded in the works of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, and Eric J. Hobsbawm.
Advanced students and scholars of Marxism, nationalism, media, and politics won’t want to miss Fuchs’ latest in-depth study of social media and politics that uncovers the causes, structures, and consequences of nationalism in the age of social media and fake news.