Theorizing New Media: Reflexivity, Knowledge, and the Web 2.0

2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Han
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
The Web

Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere

2016 ◽  
pp. 865-875
Author(s):  
Santosh Khadka
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rhetorical Performance ◽  
The Web

Facebook, like any other social networking site, troubles the traditional categories of private and public spheres. As it complicates (and transcends) the distinction, it can be called a different space, or a liminal space, which falls somewhere in-between private and public spheres. The author argues that this recognition of Facebook as a liminal sphere has important implications to the (re) definition of public and private spheres and to the ways rhetoric should work or be used in the Web 2.0 sites like Facebook. The author also proposes that Michael de Certeau's notions of “strategy” and “tactics” can be powerful rhetorical tools to deal with Facebook's liminality and to enhance the rhetorical performance of self in Facebook and other similar new media forums.

Sporting Safe in the Liminal Sphere

2013 ◽  
pp. 206-216
Author(s):  
Santosh Khadka
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rhetorical Performance ◽  
The Web

Facebook, like any other social networking site, troubles the traditional categories of private and public spheres. As it complicates (and transcends) the distinction, it can be called a different space, or a liminal space, which falls somewhere in-between private and public spheres. The author argues that this recognition of Facebook as a liminal sphere has important implications to the (re) definition of public and private spheres and to the ways rhetoric should work or be used in the Web 2.0 sites like Facebook. The author also proposes that Michael de Certeau’s notions of “strategy” and “tactics” can be powerful rhetorical tools to deal with Facebook’s liminality and to enhance the rhetorical performance of self in Facebook and other similar new media forums.

scholarly journals Reworking the Web, Reworking the World: How Web 2.0 is Changing our Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Reich
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Online Participation ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Communication Costs ◽  
The World ◽  
Interaction Costs ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Web

Web 2.0 refers to a suite of technologies that have dramatically lowered the interaction costs of two-way communication over the World Wide Web, which has democratized the production of information and applications across the internet. To sum up the Web 2.0 phenomena in a sentence: lower communication costs have led to opportunities for more inclusive, collaborative, democratic online participation. As the costs of communicating online decreased, more people, in terms of million, decided that it was worth their while to participate in these communication networks. These people did not just communicate more, they started communicating in qualitatively different ways than before. As these millions found new media for expression and collaboration, they opened possibilities for a more inclusive, open, democratic society, possibilities which may or may not be realized.There is no doubt that this democratization, these contributions from many millions of web participants, has produced a series of profound social, political and economic changes that this paper will seek to document. The changes inspired by the democratization of the web, however, will not of necessity lead to a more equitable distribution of power and resources in our society. The future of the web will depend upon the degree to which this blossoming of online participation will allow ordinary citizens and consumers to have greater voice and influence in shaping society and the degree to which powerful political and commercial interests can co-opt and constrain the surge of online enthusiasm in the support of the established hierarchy.

Collaboration

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
Sondra Bacharach
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Collaborative Authorship ◽  
The Web ◽  
New Media Technologies

This chapter demonstrates how the process of constructing a theory of authorship around a single individual, writing independently or authoring in solitary isolation, has become untenable. New media technologies make new forms of authorship possible and invite alternative methods of conceptualizing an author—from zines, to the Web 2.0, to comics. This chapter thus presents an overview of recent philosophical approaches to the question of collaborative authorship and advocates for an approach to the phenomenon that would rely less on authorial intentions than it would on commitments. The distinction has obvious implications for theories of authorship more generally: to call yourself an author, so it suggests, you have to be willing also to take ethical and intellectual ownership of what you have written.

The Unbearable Lightness of the Image

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 109-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Della Ratta
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Real Time ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Life Activity ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Web

In this essay, I reflect on the aesthetic, political and material implications of filming as a continuous life activity since the beginning of the 2011 uprising in Syria. I argue that the blurry, shaky and pixelated aesthetics of Syrian user-generated videos serve to construct an ethical discourse (Ranciére 2009a; 2013) to address the genesis and the goal of the images produced, and to shape a political commitment to the evidence-image (Didi-Huberman 2008). However, while the unstable visuals of the handheld camera powerfully reconnect, both at a symbolic and aesthetic level, to the truthfulness of the moment of crisis in which they are generated, they fail to produce a clearer understanding of the situation and a counter-hegemonic narrative. In this article, I explore how new technologies have impacted this process of bearing witness and documenting events in real time, and how they have shaped a new understanding of the image as a networked, multiple object connected with the living archive of history, in a permanent dialogue with the seemingly endless flow of data nurtured by the web 2.0.

The e ‐ Narrated Self

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celine (Ha-Young) Song
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cyber Culture ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
The Web

A common question asked about the web 2.0 by the offline population is:  "What do people do there?" The paper addresses this question with respect to Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory of the self. According to his essay Life in Quest of Narrative, a person drifts through time experiencing events happening to them, but none of it is actually lived when it is not "recounted" or "storied". In this light, "storytelling may be said to humanise time by transforming it from an impersonal passing of fragmented moments into a patter, a plot ,a mythos". Blogs and sites like Facebook represent the most recent development in the human attempt to weave this "mythos". A profile page and a tweet are first and foremost stories that appear to its critics "truncated or parodied" by design "to the point of being called micro-narratives or post-narratives", and to it s advocates"multi-plotted, multi-vocal and multi-media". The paper introduces notions of e-Self and e-Narrative, examines their dangers and benefits, and concludes that "the advent of cyber-culture should be seen not as a threat to storytelling but as a catalyst for new possibilities of interactive, non-linear narration".

Application of the Web 2.0 Technologies Podcast and Vidcast for Formation and Development of Listening Comprehension Skill in an Extended Englishtraining Course in Eighth Grade

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rumen Hristov
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Comprehension Skill ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Web

Low levels of listening comprehension skills in English is observed in many students. As a specific method, which can both cover mobile technologies and combine them with training, is the application of technology for podcasting and vidcasting/vodkasting. Podcasts and podcasts can provide authentic, up-to-date and easily accessible material, making them extremely useful when learning foreign languages. Their application makes learning freer and independent by introducing more interesting elements; gives greater freedom and independence to participants in the lesson. Students can listen to the material on the bus or while going to the gym.

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