scholarly journals Distributed digital capital: digital literacies and everyday media practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
David McGillivray ◽  
James Mahon
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Digital Capital

"Make an Educated Choice!" Capabilities für eine digital resiliente Gesellschaft

MedienJournal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Ursula Maier-Rabler ◽  
Corinna Peil ◽  
Thomas Steinmaurer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacies

Der Beitrag zielt darauf ab Prozesse der Datafication und damit entstehende neue Untersuchungs- und Problemfelder in einer Form untersuchbar zu machen, die einen analytischen Zugang zu aktuell sich eröffnenden Fragestellungen möglich macht. Dabei wird auf bereits existierende Forschungstraditionen im Zusammenhang mit dem Konzept der Digital Literacies zurückgegriffen und es werden diese um die Perspektive des Capabilitiy Approaches erweitert. Die Zusammenführung dieser beiden Denkrichtungen dient der Weiterentwicklung eines Konzepts von digitaler Resilienz, das als Rahmenmodell die Analyse der Qualität des aktuell gegebenen digitalen Strukturwissens und der digitalen Handlungs- und Reflexionskompetenzen in der Gesellschaft ermöglichen kann. Als ein an normativen Zielpunkten und an einer digitalen Ethik orientiertes Modell ist digitale Resilienz nicht nur auf der Mikroebene des Individuums wirksam, sondern spielt in der Beschäftigung mit Risikodynamiken und Potenzialen der gegenwärtigen digitalen Transformation auch auf der Ebene von Organisationen sowie auf der Makroebene der Gesellschaft eine wichtige Rolle.

Radicals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold D. Morales
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Media Practices

Chapter 5 is a critical appraisal of media practices that assume conflict rather than peaceful coexistence. It engages the “clash of civilizations” thesis articulated by both Samuel Huntington and the Mujahedeen Team, a Latino Muslim hip-hop group. The assumed media war contributes to both the reduction of Latino Muslims into simplistic binaries, between so-called good and bad Muslims, and also links a so-called Latino nature to radical religiosity. News coverage of Antonio Martinez’s arrest on charges of terrorism placed this problematic practice on full display. Responses by Latino Muslim leaders and organizations, however, often assumed a media war themselves. The chapter recommends that a better approach to “clashes of civilizations” or “cosmic wars” is to deny their very existence or overshadow their discursive relevance with much more complex, diverse, and fluid visions of American diversity.

The Role of Platforms in Fulfilling the Potential of Crowdfunding as an Alternative Decentralized Arena for Cultural Financing

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roei Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Heterogeneous System ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Corporate Blog

Abstract This study considers cultural crowdfunding as a heterogeneous system that allows money and attention to flow from backers to founders of cultural projects in diverse cultural sectors and focuses on the nature of the standards governing it. It analyzes Kickstarter’s corporate blog since the platform’s launch and finds indications that social media practices are increasingly naturalized as integral to crowdfunding and that social media architectures are increasingly adopted by the crowdfunding platform. This, I argue, has a potential exclusionary effect. At the same time, the analysis finds evidence that Kickstarter is striving to develop an independent capacity to set aesthetic standards, which might moderate that effect and help constitute crowdfunding as an alternative decentralized arena for the funding of culture.

scholarly journals Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 205015792098482
Author(s):  
Linus Andersson ◽  
Ebba Sundin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices

This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoretical perspectives that are relevant for analyzing mobile media practices and discuss the ethical implications of these perspectives. Our purpose is twofold: we want to develop a theoretical framework for critically approaching mobile media practices, and we want to contribute to discussions concerning well-being in a time marked by mediatization and digitalization. In this pursuit, we combine theory from social psychology about how people behave at traumatic scenes with discussions about witnessing in and through media, as developed in media and communication studies. Both perspectives offer various implications for normative inquiry, and in our discussion, we argue that mobile bystanders must be considered simultaneously as transgressors of social norms and as emphatic witnesses behaving in accordance with the digital media age. The article ends with a discussion regarding the implications for further research.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue “Media Practices Commoning”

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Anne Ganzert ◽  
Beate Ochsner ◽  
Robert Stock
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Practices

scholarly journals On Frogs, Monkeys, and Execution Memes: Exploring the Humor-Hate Nexus at the Intersection of Neo-Nazi and Alt-Right Movements in Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165
Author(s):  
Tina Askanius
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
Media Practices

This article is based on a case study of the online media practices of the militant neo-Nazi organization the Nordic Resistance Movement, currently the biggest and most active extreme-right actor in Scandinavia. I trace a recent turn to humor, irony, and ambiguity in their online communication and the increasing adaptation of stylistic strategies and visual aesthetics of the Alt-Right inspired by online communities such as 4chan, 8chan, Reddit, and Imgur. Drawing on a visual content analysis of memes ( N = 634) created and circulated by the organization, the analysis explores the place of humor, irony, and ambiguity across these cultural expressions of neo-Nazism and how ideas, symbols, and layers of meaning travel back and forth between neo-Nazi and Alt-right groups within Sweden today.

scholarly journals Wag the Dog: A Digital Literacies Narrative

2021 ◽  
pp. 238133772110275
Author(s):  
Elizabeth (Betsy) A. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Texts ◽  
Information And Communication

In the spring of 2020, schools across the country and world closed. COVID-19 reached pandemic proportions. Were schools prepared? Was there a research base available to help schools prepare students for reading and writing digital texts? The ability to read, analyze, compose, and communicate with digital texts requires digital literacies. However, the rapid-fire development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) makes the identification of digital literacies and the development of curriculum and instruction a moving target. In her Literacy Research Association Presidential Address, Dr. Betsy Baker asserts that digital literacies are no longer an entity separate from reading and writing instruction, they are no longer a technology issue, students live in a digital world, and digital literacies are not optional. Digital literacies have become the literacies of our culture. Baker synthesizes over 25 years of research to propose that digital literacies are persistently public, semiotic, product-oriented, and transitory. Researchers, educational leaders, and teachers can leverage these characteristics as footholds to identify ever-changing digital literacies, design curricula, and provide instruction so that all students can be autonomous as they seek to thrive in a digital world. Dr. Baker’s Presidential Address is available online (see https://youtu.be/Avzup21ZnA4 ).

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