Tecnologías de la comunicación

Among its activities to mark World Radio Day 2112, UNESCO has launched a new good practice handbook with case studies of community media from around the world. The publication draws on a diversity of experiences to provide inspiration and support for those engaged in community media practice and advocacy and to raise awareness and understanding of community media among policy makers and other stakeholders.

13 February has been proclaimed by UNESCO as a date to celebrate radio broadcast, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to create and provide access to information through radio. Community Media: A Good Practice Handbook is a compilation of 30 community radio and other community media examples demonstrating successful approaches to strengthening public voice.

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D´ençà l´any 1995 internet ha proporcionat un entorn cada vegada més favorable per a la difusió de continguts audiovisuals. Els usuaris poden accedir a una quantitat ingent de material, creat o no per professionals. El consum dels audiovisuals ha quedat desvinculat de les pantalles del cinema i de la televisió i s´ha enriquit amb l´aparició de nous formats, alguns interactius i multiplataforma. Aquest llibre recull més de 310 títols d´obres audiovisuals, fetes fins a 2010, que han destacat en la història d´internet i la telefonia mòbil. Al costat de les pel·lícules i els canals de televisió conviuen els tràilers, els videoclips, les animacions Flash, els "machinima", les websèries i mobisèries, els vídeos generats pels usuaris i els videoblocs. A més de la cronologia explicativa, per facilitar-ne el coneixement i el possible visionat a internet, al final del llibre es fa el recull de totes les obres audiovisuals esmentades.

Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching scope and implications of digital role-playing games as both cultural and academic artifacts. As a genre, digital role playing games have undergone constant and radical revision, pushing not only multiple boundaries of game development, but also the playing strategies and experiences of players.

Divided into three distinct sections, this premiere volume captures the distinctiveness of different game types, the forms of play they engender and their social and cultural implications. Contributors examine a range of games, from classics like Final Fantasy to blockbusters like World of Warcraft to obscure genre bending titles like Lux Pain. Working from a broad range of disciplines such as ecocritism, rhetoric, performance, gender, and communication, these essays yield insights that enrich the field of game studies and further illuminate the cultural, psychological and philosophical implications of a society that increasingly produces, plays and discourses about role playing games.

With the rise of web 2.1 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field.

Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few. It covers a wide-ranging topical terrain, much like the internet itself, with particular emphasis on collaboration and sharing, the politics of social media and social networking, Free Culture and copyright politics, and labor and ownership. Theorizing new models of collaboration, identity, commerce, copyright, ownership, and labor, these essays outline possibilities for cultural democracy that arise when the formerly passive audience becomes active cultural creators, while warning of the dystopian potential of new forms of surveillance and control.

Estudio completo sobre la figura de Julian Assange y Wikileaks, sus luces y sus sombras, pero con las informaciones presentadas sin presión ni prejuicios, ofreciendo las piezas que faltaban para entender el mundo y lo que en él ocurre. Como un culebrón de espionaje internacional, las filtraciones de Wikileaks suman un nuevo capítulo cada día. En esta búsqueda por recoger información veraz y por intentar entender el fenómeno, todavía en evolución, es en la que se ubica Bruno Cardeñosa.

This book discusses the international legal issues underlying Internet Governance and proposes an international solution to its problems. The book encompasses a wide spectrum of current debate surrounding the governance of the internet and focuses on the areas and issues which urgently require attention from the international community in order to sustain the proper functioning of the global network that forms the foundation of our information fuelled society. Among the topics discussed are international copyright protection, state responsibility for cyber-attacks (cyberterrorism), and international on-line privacy protection.

Taking a comparative approach by examining how different jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, China and Singapore have attempted various solutions to the problem of Internet Governance, the author offers a practical solution to the problem and is a proponent of International Internet Law. Kulesza suggests that just as in the case of International Environmental Law, an Internet Framework Convention could shape the starting point for international cooperation and lead to a clear, contractual division of state jurisdictional competences.

International Internet Law is of particular interest to legal scholars engaged with the current challenges in international law and international relations, as well as students of law, international relations and political science. The issues discussed in the book are also relevant to journalists and other media professionals, facing the challenges of analyzing current international developments in cyberspace.

La guía "Adictos a la comunicación" del sitio Maestros del Web es una publicación orientada a periodistas y bloggers independientes que tiene como objetivo servir de ayuda en la creación de proyectos de comunicación. Hoy tenemos acceso a una diversidad de herramientas para desarrollar el potencial propio, implementar ideas y crear proyectos de referencia a nivel mundial.

Este manual está estructurado en 11 capítulos que brindan un panorama de los antecedentes del periodismo digital para luego orientar a periodistas en la creación de una propuesta para desarrollar un medio digital, mostrando las herramientas digitales con las que dispone el periodista y comunicador para ejercer su profesión en la actualidad.

Contenido

1.Guía para periodistas y bloggers independientes
2.Periodismo y comunicación digital
3.El perfil del periodista y comunicador digital
4.Explorar, aprender y participar en la web
5.Armar la mochila del comunicador digital
6.El manejo de fuentes, entrevistas y créditos en Internet
7.Crear contenido para la web
8.Producción y edición de vídeo
9.Ser Freelance y trabajar en equipo
10.El rol del Community Manager
11.Emprender un medio de comunicación digital

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one quarter of the world’s population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.

However, much popular and academic writing about the internet takes a technologically deterministic view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on, and with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political context.

Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. The book has a simple three part structure:
•Part 1 looks at the history of the internet, and offers an overview of the internet’s place in society
•Part 2 focuses on the control and economics of the internet
•Part 3 examines the internet’s political and cultural influence

Misunderstanding the Internet is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed textbook that aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies around the internet.

Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act as a boundary point against which we as a culture can measure what it means to be human. Science fiction feature films and novels, and other related media, frequently and provocatively deploy ideas of the artificial in ways which the lines between people, our bodies, spaces and culture more broadly blur and, at times, dissolve.

Building on the rich foundational work on the figures of the cyborg and posthuman, this book situates the artificial in similar terms, but from a nevertheless distinctly different viewpoint. After examining ideas of the artificial as deployed in film, novels and other digital contexts, this study concludes that we are now part of an artificial culture entailing a matrix which, rather than separating minds and bodies, or humanity and the digital, reinforces the symbiotic connection between identities, bodies, and technologies.

Es posible que toda generación se haya sentido única y trascendente a lo largo de la historia (presentismo, se denomina esa sensación). También que este libro navegue el mismo espejismo, que sea uno más de entre los que dibujan el camino hacia un mundo que el observador-escritor, con la obvia complicidad del lector, desea mejor… […]