scholarly journals A Theoretical Postscript: Time, Space, the Self and the You, and Digital Media as Narrative Constructions

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-224
Author(s):  
Christina Schachtner
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Narrative Subject

Abstract This chapter explores how the concepts of time, space, the Self, the You, and the structural characteristics of the media concerned figure in the narratives. Time, for example, is fleshed out as biographical and sociocultural time whereas space takes on form in the narrative practices of managing boundaries and organizing virtual space. The analysis continues by confirming that the narrative subject is anything but isolated. The You sets foot on the narrative stage as a benchmark or a talking point. In the interplay between narrators and media, transmedia storytelling crystallizes as a new narrative form which interlinks media-based experiences from different phases of life and from different media, giving rise to a cosmos in which the narrators act as the designers of their own stories.

Old Futures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Lothian
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Space Distortion ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Feminist Utopias

Old Futures traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media. Centering works by women, queers, and people of color that are marginalized within most accounts of the genre, the book offers a new perspective on speculative fiction studies while reframing established theories of queer temporality by arguing that futures imagined in the past offer new ways to queer the present. Imagined futures have been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures rewrites the history of the future by gathering together works that counter such narratives even as they are part of them. Lothian explores how queer possibilities are constructed and deconstructed through extrapolative projections and affective engagements with alternative temporalities. The book is structured in three parts, each addressing one convergence of political economy, theoretical framework, and narrative form that has given rise to a formation of speculative futurity. Six main chapters focus on white feminist utopias and dystopias of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; on Afrofuturist narratives that turn the dehumanization of black lives into feminist and queer visions of transformation; on futuristic landscapes in queer speculative cinema; and on fan creators’ digital interventions into televised futures. Two shorter chapters, named “Wormholes” in homage to the science fiction trope of a time-space distortion that connects distant locations, highlight current resonances of the old futures under discussion.

How algorithms see their audience: media epistemes and the changing conception of the individual

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1176-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eran Fisher ◽  
Yoav Mehozay
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

The rise of digital media has witnessed a paradigmatic shift in the way that media outlets conceptualize and classify their audience. Whereas during the era of mass media, ‘seeing’ the audience was based on a scientific episteme combining social theory and empirical research, with digital media ‘seeing’ the audience has come to be dominated by a new episteme, based on big data and algorithms. This article argues that the algorithmic episteme does not see the audience more accurately, but differently. Whereas the scientific episteme upheld an ascriptive conception which assigned individuals to a particular social category, the algorithmic episteme assumes a performative individual, based on behavioral data, sidestepping any need for a theory of the self. Since the way in which the media see their audience is constitutive, we suggest that the algorithmic episteme represents a new way to think about human beings.

scholarly journals Infodemia, el lado obscuro de la comunicación digital

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 5488-5497
Author(s):  
Sandra Flores Guevara ◽  
Fannia María Cadena Montes ◽  
Ramiro Cadena Uribe
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
False Information ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

El espacio virtual donde se han logrado abrir camino medios de comunicación digitales alternativos, y donde se informa la mayoría de los mexicanos, hoy se encuentra contaminado por el virus de la desinformación y las fake news. La llegada del virus Covid-19 ha sido terreno fértil para la propagación de la infodemia, y una herramienta de la oposición para golpear al gobierno del presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Ante esta epidemia de desinformación, el propósito de este trabajo es visibilizar las consecuencias que tiene la propagación de información falsa en torno al Covid-19, analizando para ello el uso político que se le da a los rumores y fake news que se difunden tanto en redes sociales digitales como en medios de comunicación. Entre los principales halazgos de este estudio de corte cualitativo, se pudieron distinguir algunos medios de comunicación que propician y otros que combaten a la infodemia. Además se observó que la epidemia de información falsa tiene graves consecuencias en la sociedad, con implicaciones que van desde afectaciones a la salud pública, hasta la desacreditación de movimientos sociales genuinos como el femeninismo, o de gobiernos legítimos.     The virtual space where alternative digital media have made their way, and where the majority of Mexicans are informed, is now contaminated by the virus of disinformation and fake news. The arrival of the Covid-19 virus has been fertile ground for the spread of infodemia, and a tool of the opposition to hit the government of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Given this epidemic of disinformation, the purpose of this paper is to make visible the consequences of the spread of false information about Covid-19, analyzing the political use given to rumors and fake news that are spread both in digital social networks and in the media. Among the main findings of this qualitative study, it was possible to distinguish some media that favor and others that fight infodemia. In addition, it was observed that the epidemic of false information has serious consequences in society, with implications ranging from public health effects to the discrediting of genuine social movements such as feminism, or of legitimate governments.

Cartesian Fingerprints in Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-243
Author(s):  
Irit Degani-Raz
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Limiting Case

The idea that Beckett investigates in his works the limits of the media he uses has been widely discussed. In this article I examine the fiction Imagination Dead Imagine as a limiting case in Beckett's exploration of limits at large and the limits of the media he uses in particular. Imagination Dead Imagine is shown to be the self-reflexive act of an artist who imaginatively explores the limits of that ultimate medium – the artist's imagination itself. My central aim is to show that various types of structural homologies (at several levels of abstraction) can be discerned between this poetic exploration of the limits of imagination and Cartesian thought. The homologies indicated here transcend what might be termed as ‘Cartesian typical topics’ (such as the mind-body dualism, the cogito, rationalism versus empiricism, etc.). The most important homologies that are indicated here are those existing between the role of imagination in Descartes' thought - an issue that until only a few decades ago was quite neglected, even by Cartesian scholars - and Beckett's perception of imagination. I suggest the use of these homologies as a tool for tracing possible sources of inspiration for Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine.

scholarly journals Social Media Influencer’s Reputation: Developing and Validating a Multidimensional Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Eun Ah Ryu ◽  
Eun Kyoung Han
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

Since the introduction of smartphones in 2009, social networking services (SNS), which have seen a surge in users, facilitated changes in the media environment along with social influence that has increased the economic value and political influence of SNS. In particular, as consumers’ media use and consumption behavior change around digital media, social media plays a very important role in consumers’ lives. From this perspective, influencers who influence not only consumers’ consumption behavior, but also decision-making and opinion formation based on social media are attracting attention. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop items to measure an influencer’s reputation as a new source of information in the SNS environment; no previous researchers have presented generalized measurement items for an influencer’s reputation. We intended to identify what dimensions and items in the existing literature could effectively measure a social media influencer’s reputation and to verify each item’s relevance as a measure of a social media influencer’s reputation. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 experts and empirical findings from 557 adults, this study identified dimensions that impact on a consumer’s perception of a social media influencer and developed a scale. The results showed that the social media Influencer’s Reputation scale comprises four distinctive dimensions: Communication skills, influence, authenticity, and expertise. Additionally, the reliability and validity of the scale were assessed, using exploratory and confirmatory analyses and construct validity. The findings confirmed that the social media influencer’s reputation scale measurement items, in this study, can be used as a consistent measurement tool for each dimension. It is also important to develop value in favor of the marketing strategy by increasing value through the influencer’s reputation.

Narrative constructions and the life history issue in brain–emotions relations

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
Zsolt Unoka ◽  
Eszter Berán ◽  
Csaba Pléh
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotion Development ◽  
Constructivist View ◽  
Pathological Conditions ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
Contextual Dependency

AbstractEmotional reactions are rather flexible, due to the schema-like organization of complex socio-emotional situations. Some data on emotion development, and on certain pathological conditions such as alexithymia, give further support for the psychological constructivist view put forward by Lindquist et al. Narrative organization is a key component of this schematic organization. The self-related nature of narrative organization provides scaffolding to the contextual dependency of emotions.

Digital news on public libraries: Media mapping and thematic and consumption analysis based on Facebook interactions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Lázaro-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Digital News ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Media ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

A study of digital news on public libraries is presented through media mapping and a thematic and consumption analysis based on Facebook interactions. A total of 7,629 digital news items published in 2019 have been considered. The media mapping includes the evolution of the volume of news publications, the most prominent media outlets and journalists, and the sections in which most news items are published. For the thematic and consumption analysis, the top 250 news items with the highest number of Facebook interactions are considered, defining 15 thematic categories. The most published topics include: new libraries and spaces, collections, and libraries from a historical perspective. The topics that generate the most interactions are the value of libraries (social, human, and cultural capital), libraries from other countries, and new libraries and spaces. The value and originality of the current study lie in the measurement of the consumption of news and digital media through Facebook interactions. The methods used and results obtained also provide new knowledge for the disciplines of Communication and Media Studies by developing the idea of media mapping for its application to other topics and media in future work, as well as for Librarianship, particularly the information obtained on public libraries. Resumen Se presenta un estudio de noticias digitales sobre bibliotecas públicas en España mediante un mapeo de medios y un análisis temático y de consumo basado en las interacciones en Facebook. Se han considerado 7.629 noticias publicadas en 2019. El mapeo de medios incluye la evolución del volumen de la publicación de noticias, los medios y periodistas más prominentes, y las secciones en las que más se publica. Para el análisis temático y de consumo se consideran las 250 noticias con mayores interacciones en Facebook definiendo 15 categorías temáticas. Los temas sobre los que más se publica son: nuevas bibliotecas y espacios, la colección y las bibliotecas desde la perspectiva de su historia. Los que más interacciones y consumo generan son: el valor de las bibliotecas (capital social, humano y cultural), bibliotecas de otros países y las nuevas bibliotecas y espacios. El valor y la originalidad del estudio consisten en considerar las interacciones en Facebook como medida del consumo de noticias y medios digitales. Los métodos y resultados alcanzados aportan además nuevo conocimiento para dos disciplinas: la comunicación y los medios de comunicación, por el desarrollo de la idea del mapeo de medios que puede aplicarse a otros temas y medios en futuros trabajos; y para la biblioteconomía y la documentación, por la información alcanzada sobre las bibliotecas públicas.

Epistemic media and critical knowledge about the self: Thinking about algorithms with Habermas

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110441
Author(s):  
Eran Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This article explores the ontology of personal knowledge that algorithms on digital media create by locating it on two axes: historical and theoretical. Digital platforms continue a long history of epistemic media—media forms and practices, which not only communicate knowledge, but also create knowledge. As epistemic media allowed a new way to know the world, they also facilitated a new way of knowing the self. This historical perspective also underscores a key difference of digital platforms from previous epistemic media: their exclusion of self-reflection from the creation of knowledge about the self. To evaluate the ramifications of that omission, I use Habermas’s theory of knowledge, which distinguishes critical knowledge from other types of knowledge, and sees it as corresponding with a human interest in emancipation. Critical knowledge about the self, as exemplified by psychoanalysis, must involve self-reflection. As the self gains critical knowledge, deciphering the conditions under which positivist and hermeneutic knowledges are valid, it is also able to transform them and expand its realm of freedom, or subjectivity. As digital media subverts this process by demoting self-reflection, it also undermines subjectivity.

scholarly journals Duration Perception Versus Perception Duration: A Proposed Model for the Consciously Experienced Moment

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan Kent
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Prediction Error ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
The Self ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Candidate Model ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Concrete Objects ◽  
Integrated Information Theory

Duration perception is not the same as perception duration. Time is an object of perception in its own right and is qualitatively different to exteroceptive or interoceptive perception of concrete objects or sensations originating within the self. In reviewing evidence for and against the experienced moment, White (2017, Psychol. Bull., 143, 735–756) proposed a model of global integration of information dense envelopes of integration. This is a valuable addition to the literature because it supposes that, like Tononi’s (2004, BMC Neurosci., 5, 42) Integrated Information Theory, consciousness is an integral step above perception of objects or the self. Consciousness includes the perception of abstract contents such as time, space, and magnitude, as well as post-perceptual contents drawn from memory. The present review takes this logic a step further and sketches a potential neurobiological pathway through the salience, default mode, and central executive networks that culminates in a candidate model of how duration perception and consciousness arises. Global integration is viewed as a process of Bayesian Prediction Error Minimisation according to a model put forward by Hohwy, Paton and Palmer (2016, Phenomenol. Cogn. Sci., 15, 315–335) called ‘distrusting the present’. The proposed model also expresses global integration as an intermediate stage between perception and memory that spans an approximate one second duration, an analogue of Wittmann’s (2011, Front. Integr. Neurosci., 5, 66) experienced moment.

scholarly journals The use of participatory methodologies for conducting literacy activities

2017 ◽  
Vol 118 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 456-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct the basis for a research agenda that integrates participatory methodologies (PMs) into literacies (L) research and practice as a valuable methodological basis. Design/methodology/approach The pros and cons of using PM on L research and practice are explained, as well as its possibilities, characteristics and the contributions of a research agenda under such integration (PM-L agenda). This analysis draws from the pertinent literature, Scopus publication data, the author’s own practice as an information literacy (IL) researcher and a questionnaire used to gather further insights from the research community in this matter. Findings A further understanding of the contributions that a PM-L research agenda can bring to the library and information science field is achieved. The pros, cons, hesitations and eagerness that researchers might have toward the idea of using such integration are valuable for determining if this really is a perfect but not an explicit fit. Research limitations/implications Although the questionnaire was promoted in a large international conference during a four-year period (2013-2017), it was answered by 34 participants; only 16 participants had previous experiences with the PM-L integration, and only an average of 8 participants provided significant answers to our open-ended questions. Thus, the amount of data available to analyze was limited. Certainly, using Scopus data provides a large but incomplete picture of the specialized literature that is peer reviewed and indexed, because it excludes publications not indexed that may be pertinent. Originality/value The PM-L integration is deemed as highly adequate, as PMs seek to improve participants’ conditions, situations and realities through reflection and engagement, while L-related activities and research (including information, digital, media literacy or new literacies) are conducted to improve people’s use and understanding of the media for which they are developing literacy. This contributes to their betterment as critical-thinkers, persons, citizens and learners. However, many researchers and especially practitioners do not formally use PM to conduct L activities, at least in many cases, this is not made explicitly. In the case of practitioners, some have conducted such activities empirically, without an appropriate methodological foundation. Hence, to establish PM as the methodologies of choice may help researchers and practitioners have a stronger methodological basis to conduct their work.

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