Tecnologías de la comunicación

La concentración infocomunicacional en América Latina (2000-2015) es una coedición, de descarga gratuita, entre la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes y Observacom (Observatorio Latinoamericano de Regulación, Medios y Convergencia).

En los primeros 15 años del siglo XXI, nuevos medios y nuevas tecnologías cambiaron radicalmente el modo en que América Latina se informa, se entretiene y se comunica. La revolución digital estuvo acompañada de expectativas de apertura de las comunicaciones a nuevos actores y de mayor diversidad de flujos y contenidos. No obstante, los niveles de concentración de las actividades infocomunicacionales han crecido en este lapso, como documenta y analiza la presente investigación.

Los procesos de concentración, extranjerización, conglomerización, convergencia y regulaciones intensivamente modificadas por parte de los Estados en la región, se combinan en un escenario que acerca de modo inédito al sector de medios audiovisuales y al de telecomunicaciones, con internet como bisagra.

Las novedades principales de la estructuración de un sector medular para la convivencia democrática, para la circulación de la cultura, para la socialización y para la nueva economía son detalladas en el presente libro, que se suma a la serie histórica de estudios previos que los autores –doctores en comunicación, profesores universitarios e investigadores del Conicet– realizaron en este caso en el marco de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes y de Observacom.

This collection of essays connected by the thread of media influence is an attempt to trace the logical result of the Gutenberg Press experience through print, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, and internet technologies. Using Marshall McLuhan’s insights as an impetus, this meandering tale draws upon novels, radio and television shows, film, and trending internet platforms and gaming to discuss the influence of media in a world increasingly wrapped in the fibre optic cables of the technological age.
Technological advances have always had a clear effect on the possible expressions of culture, but those are best seen in retrospect. Now, with the advent of the internet through YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the world of gaming, the cultural shifts that are happening beneath our feet have become difficult to see. The stream of data has become a torrent, but its vacant noise obscures its exact shape. This idiosyncratic examination of those shifts is a commentary on the current of our times and an interrogation of the eddies and swirls of cultural influence and societal change.
New trends such as self-publishing have utterly transformed the established publishing industry, just as Netflix has transformed the reception of television, online piracy the notion of copyright, the cellphone the paper map and the camera, and YouTube the home movie. Like a skipping stone over the growing flood of the digital age, this study examines some of these trends more closely in terms of what we gain as a culture, as well as what the current leaves behind in its inexorable rush into the future.

How can we use technology as tools instead of letting our technology use us? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing the user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the user’s periphery most of the time. You’ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and don’t get in the way of a user’s life.

Old systems and bad interfaces will plague us if we don’t learn how to design for the long term. By writing code that’s small instead of large, and making simple systems rather than complex ones, we can begin to design technology that gets out of our way.

Discover principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it away
Delve into types of alerts, product launch, "calming" technology, and tech that smoothly enters people’s lives
Learn from a trained anthropologist and a technology hobbyist who sits on the edge between technology and how people use it

This book is ideal for anyone who actively builds or makes decisions about technology, including user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers.

Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2112.

This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare moves from physical to virtual encounters between healthcare professionals and patients? What are the consequences for patients when they are expected to do things that used to be done by healthcare professionals? What actually happens when homes become electronically wired to healthcare organizations? These are urgent questions that are, however, largely absent in dominant discourses on telecare.

Drawing on insights from science, technology, and human geography, this work opens up novel accounts of the adoption and use of new technologies in healthcare. Nelly Oudshoorn shows how telecare technologies participate in redefining the responsibilities and identities of patients and healthcare professionals, introducing a new category of healthcare workers, and changing the kinds of care and spaces where healthcare is situated. This book intervenes critically into discourses that celebrate the independence of place and time by showing how places and physical contacts still matter in care at a distance.

Reflexión original y provocadora sobre la obsesión actual por las nuevas tecnologías y las redes sociales, que no parte del rechazo de las mismas ni alerta sobre las consecuencias apocalípticas sobre su uso, sino que analiza sus vicios y sus virtudes para abogar por una nueva fase en el desarrollo humano, plenamente integra do con las herramientas tecnológicas utilizadas de manera mesurada, ética y coherente.

Thematically organized around three of the most pressing ethical issues of the digital age (shifting of professional norms, moderating offensive content, and privacy), this volume offers a window into some of the hot-button ethical issues facing a society where digital has become the new normal. Straddling an applied ethical and theoretical approach, the research represented not only reflects on how our ethical frameworks have been changed and challenged by digital technology, but also provides insights for those confronted with specific ethical dilemmas related to digital technology. With contributions from established experts and up-and-coming scholars alike, this book cuts across disciplines and with appeal to communication scholars, philosophers, and anyone with an interest in ethics and technology.

El aprovechamiento eficaz de estos recursos depende en gran medida de nuestra capacidad para analizar estos datos y en la capacidad de comunicación e interacción con la que podamos dotar a los objetos conectados a la Red. Este libro ofrece una mejor comprensión de estas “revolucionarias” tecnologías, del papel que juegan en la configuración de un nuevo ecosistema digital, pero también de su potencial para transformar muchos de los ámbitos de nuestra sociedad, sopesando las posibilidades, los riesgos y los desafíos que entrañan.

That person slumped over her cell phone is disengaged, isolated, lost in her own little world, right? Wrong, says SC Moatti. She's highly engaged – she's having a text conversation with a friend in Europe, playing a game with another, and looking for a good place to go to dinner with a third. Mobile technology has become such an integral part of how we interact that for many people losing a cell phone is like losing a limb. And the most successful mobile apps that are precisely those that enhance and multiply the frequency and power of our real-world interactions.

Moatti – a technologist and industry insider – says these kinds of mobile apps adhere to three universal principles: they must have a simple design, enable the user to personalize them, and be continually improved by their makers through relentless attention to analytics. She uses examples from a host of great mobile app creators – Facebook, Yelp, Lyft, Tinder, Aerbnb, Trulia, WhatsApp, and more – to demonstrate how it's done. Even as technology evolves and smartphones are replaced by smaller mobile devices such as watches and contact lenses, these three principles will remain evergreen. The market is full of how-to books for creating apps, but no works examine what qualities make for great mobile products. Until now.

Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high–tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a good thing .

Is Technology Good For Education? offers a critical counterpoint to this received wisdom, challenging some of the central ways in which digital technology is presumed to be positively affecting education. Instead Neil Selwyn considers what is being lost as digital technologies become ever more integral to education provision and engagement. Crucially, he questions the values, agendas and interests that stand to gain most from the rise of digital education.

This concise, up–to–the–minute analysis concludes by considering alternate approaches that might be capable of rescuing and perhaps revitalizing the ideals of public education, while not denying the possibilities of digital technology altogether.

The figure of the 'other' is fundamental to the concept of communication. Online or offline, communication, which is commonly defined as the act of sending or imparting information to others, is only possible in the face of others. In fact, the reason we communicate is to interact with others-to talk to another, to share our thoughts and insights with them, or to respond to their needs and requests. No matter how it is structured or conceptualized, communication is involved with addressing the other and dealing with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions of otherness or alterity. But who or what can be other? Who or what can be the subject of communication? Is the other always and only another human? Or can the other in these communicative interactions be otherwise? This book is about others (and other kinds of others). It concerns the current position and status of the other in the face of technological innovations that can, in one way or another distort, mask, or even deface the other. Ten innovative essays, written by an international team of experts, individually and in collaboration with each other, seek to diagnose the current situation with otherness, devise innovative solutions to the questions of alterity, and provide insight for students, teachers and researchers trying to make sense of the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.