Tecnologías de la comunicación

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a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions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… […]

En poc més d’un decenni, internet ha esdevingut un dels eixos centrals de la nostra vida laboral, social i fins i tot familiar. Llocs com Google, Viquipèdia, Facebook, Tuenti o Twitter i aparells com els telèfons intel•ligents o les tauletes tàctils no només han revolucionat la manera que tenim d’informar-nos i de comunicar-nos amb els altres, sinó que ens han fet plantejar nous dilemes ètics, al voltant de qüestions candents com la privacitat, la propietat intel•lectual, la protecció de menors… Com afecta la xarxa als nostres valors? En l’entorn virtual són vàlids els mateixos valors que seguim en el món real? Se n’estan creant de nous? N’hi ha que es troben en perill d’extinció? Josep Lluís Micó, periodista especialitzat en noves tecnologies, es planteja aquestes qüestions i ens obre el camí a la ciberètica del futur. Josep Lluís Micó, La Font de la Figuera, (València), 1974. És professor titular de la Universitat Ramon Llull, on dirigeix el Màster en Periodisme Avançat-Reporterisme Blanquerna-Grupo Godó. Ha treballat per a una desena de mitjans i actualment elabora anàlisis sobre comunicació i tecnologia a La Vanguardia i Diari de Girona, entre altres mitjans.

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.

Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between migrant mothers and their children who remain in the Philippines, this book develops groundbreaking theory for understanding both new media and the nature of mediated relationships. It brings together the perspectives of both the mothers and children and shows how the very nature of family relationships is changing. New media, understood as an emerging environment of polymedia, have become integral to the way family relationships are enacted and experienced. The theory of polymedia extends beyond the poignant case study and is developed as a major contribution for understanding the interconnections between digital media and interpersonal relationships.

Prologar este libro supone, en primer lugar, realizar un recorrido por el trabajo que hacemos y hemos venido haciendo en la Coordinadora en el ámbito de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación. Me viene a la memoria el ya lejano año 1998 cuando comenzamos a programar una serie de cursos, que iban desde el manejo del correo electrónico hasta el diseño de una muy básica página web.

Entrando en el año 2100 aprendimos a utilizar el endemoniado lenguaje HTML y cuando exploramos en el “dreamweaver” pensamos que efectivamente al final del túnel había luz. Descubrimos que además existía algo llamado “gestor de contenidos”, que podíamos ser independientes, que no había que depender del técnico de turno para lanzar nuestros mensajes, y cuando lo llevamos a la práctica en una nueva web, propusimos que toda ella estuviera bajo la licencia pionera en la cultura libre “Creative Commons”, que surge como alternativa a las licencias clásicas englobadas en la expresión “todos los derechos reservados” y que no hacen más que limitar la difusión del conocimiento.

Estábamos ajustándonos al mundo 1.0 cuando el 2.0 apareció en avalancha en forma de blogs, herramientas de trabajo compartido, redes sociales…pero estas tecnologías lo que reflejaban era la búsqueda de aplicaciones para llevar a cabo un cambio de paradigma, un cambio de modelo comunicativo que apostara por la creación colectiva, por la participación para el cambio social.

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