scholarly journals The differences of midialogy’s communication

Matrizes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Lucrécia D’Alessio Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Scientific Area ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Epistemological Aspect

This study aims to analyze the differences between media and medialogy to reach the matrices that are writing a new epistemology of communication. The study of medialogy contemplates investigative views based on the characteristics of Western civilizations developed amid communicative practices of administrative utilitarian use until taking on another investigative aspect within the contemporary and under the influence of digital media. This media is rooted in the observation of political dimensions of communication that reach greater complexity and demand in their investigative paths, presenting another epistemological aspect, which, through dialogue, overcomes the linearity of communication as a scientific area that is more persuasive than social.

scholarly journals COMPUTATIONAL AFFORDANCES, CONTEXT COLLAPSES AND OTHER CHALLENGES TO LINGUISTIC STUDIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 583-600
Author(s):  
Vinícius Vargas Vieira dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Linguistic Practices

ABSTRACT With the increasing incorporation of digital media in 21st century societies, a paradigmatic phenomenon is occurring on the language issue: communicative practices have started being widely mediated by technology. Besides incorporating earlier technologies, such as radio and television, computers have enabled users, who were mere passive recipients, to become information emitters as well. Starting from the principle pointed out by Marshall McLuhan (1964) that the medium controls the scales and actions configured in language, this paper seeks to understand the scalar levels of new technologies contexts and how they reverberate on meditated linguistic practices. Digital media are considered here as their own computational designs, communication channels that, far from being neutral, are previously set by large computational companies and, therefore, present ideologies and already configured forms of interaction, stimulating semiotic and pragmatic dimensions of language, reflecting on aspects of culture and, consequently, on political life.

Decoding algorithms

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 745-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stine Lomborg ◽  
Patrick Heiberg Kapsch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Decoding Algorithms ◽  
Modes Of Engagement

In this article, we propose to adapt the communication theory concept of ‘decoding’ as a sensitizing device to probe how people come to know and understand algorithms, what they imagine algorithms to do, and their valorization of and responses to algorithmic work in daily media use. We posit the concept of decoding as useful because it highlights a feature that is constitutional in communication: gaps that must be filled by mobilizing our semiotic and socio-cultural knowledge in processes of interpretation before any communication becomes meaningful. If we cannot open the black box itself, we can study the relationships that people experience with algorithms, and by extension how and to what extent these experienced relationships become meaningful and are interwoven with users’ reflections of power, transparency, and justice in digital media. We demonstrate the potential of approaching algorithmic experience as communicative practices of decoding through an exploratory empirical study of how people from different walks of life come to know, feel, evaluate, and do algorithms in daily life. We unpack three prototypical modes of decoding algorithms – along preferred, negotiated, and oppositional modes of engagement with algorithms in daily life.

The Sociology of Mobile Apps

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Tablet Computers ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Political Economy Approach

Since their introduction in 2008, software applications for mobile devices (“apps”) have become extremely popular forms of digital media. Mobile apps are designed as small bits of software for devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, smartwatches, and other wearable devices. This chapter presents a sociological analysis of apps through the lens of three major theoretical perspectives: (1) the political economy approach, (2) Foucauldian perspectives, and (3) sociomaterialism. Each perspective adopts a different focus, but all elucidate important aspects of the sociocultural and political dimensions of apps. Relevant empirical research is incorporated into the discussion to illustrate how apps are designed, developed, and promoted by a range of actors and agencies and to provide examples of the ways in which people incorporate apps into the routines of their everyday lives. The chapter ends with identifying directions for further sociological research and theorizing related to apps.

scholarly journals The Politics of Privacy—A Useful Tautology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-236
Author(s):  
Johanna E. Möller ◽  
Jakub Nowak ◽  
Sigrid Kannengießer ◽  
Judith E. Möller
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Group Information ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Communicative Actions

While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, contextual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy research as well as on structural privacy conditions and people’s mundane communicative practices underlining inherent political aspect. They highlight how particular acts of doing privacy are grounded in citizen agency realized in datafied environments. Overall, this collection of articles unfolds the concept of ‘Politics of Privacy’ in diverse ways, contributing to an emerging body of communication and media research.

Art and Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 2018 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-134
Author(s):  
Yvonne Förster
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Dimensions

AbstractThe world we live in is shaped by technology and its development. This process is observed and debated in the humanities as well as in computer science and cognitive sciences. Narratives of human life being merged with and transcended by technology not only belong to science fiction but also to science: Theorists like Katherine Hayles or Mark B. N. Hansen speak of a technogenesis of consciousness. These accounts hold that our cognitive abilities are deeply influenced by technology and digital media. The digitalization of the lifeworld is a global phenomenon, which unfolds regardless of local cultures. It is art which seeks to explore the experiential aspects of technologically shaped life-worlds. In my contribution I will present examples of artworks which focus on the possibility of aesthetic experiences with new technologies and getting in touch with the so-called technological unconscious. I attempt to investigate the potential of art to unfold experiential aspects of human rapport with technology and thereby develop aisthetic practices for understanding the cultural and political dimensions of digitalized life-worlds.

scholarly journals Digital media infrastructures: pipes, platforms, and politics

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Christophe Plantin ◽  
Aswin Punathambekar
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Political Economy Of Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Infrastructure Studies

Over the past decade, a growing body of scholarship in media studies and other cognate disciplines has focused our attention on the social, material, cultural, and political dimensions of the infrastructures that undergird and sustain media and communication networks and cultures across the world. This infrastructural turn assumes greater significance in relation to digital media and in particular, the influence that digital platforms have come to wield. Having ‘disrupted’ many sectors of social, political, and economic life, many of the most widely used digital platforms now seem to operate as infrastructures themselves. This special issue explores how an infrastructural perspective reframes the study of digital platforms and allows us to pose questions of scale, labor, industry logics, policy and regulation, state power, cultural practices, and citizenship in relation to the routine, everyday uses of digital platforms. In this opening article, we offer a critical overview of media infrastructure studies and situate the study of digital infrastructures and platforms within broader scholarly and public debates on the history and political economy of media infrastructures. We also draw on the study of media industries and production cultures to make the case for an inter-medial and inter-sectoral approach to understanding the entanglements of digital platforms and infrastructures.

scholarly journals Uses of Facebook and grief: emotional expression and seeking support in social media

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Andrés Marín-Cortés ◽  
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Sandra Quintero ◽  
Sebastián Acosta ◽  
Andrés García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Private And Public

This article discusses the use of Facebook in relation to grief by women who have lost a loved one. Qualitative research was carried out using a phenomenological-hermeneutic method, in which 29 bereaved women were interviewed. The results indicate that Facebook is a platform for emotional expression and for seeking support. This research contributes to the understanding of communicative practices in digital media, which blur the boundaries between what is private and public during moments of crisis.

The social uses of the Internet: Introduction to the special section

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110159
Author(s):  
Jacob Ørmen ◽  
Rasmus Helles ◽  
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Social Uses

This Special Section takes stock of a shift toward an integrated and global digital media environment with a set of articles comparing and contrasting the social uses of the Internet in China, Europe, and the United States. Departing from James Lull’s typology of the social uses of television, the articles address both general media use patterns and the specific private and public uses to which the Internet is put in these different social and cultural contexts. A concluding commentary by Lull serves to place current communicative practices in historical perspective and to suggest implications for future research.

scholarly journals About the combinatorics of language, politics and identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
Nail Mukhamyarov ◽  
Olga Yanush
Keyword(s):  
Political Influence ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Language Politics ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Flexible Response ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analytical Development ◽  
Political Dimensions

The article discusses the conceptual ways of interaction of cognitive structures reflecting the diverse forms of co-presence of the phenomena of language, identity and politics in their peculiar combinatorics – variants of compatibility in both ontological and epistemological senses. The types of conjugation of linguistic functioning (communicative practices and situations, individual and group behavior) with relations about identity and with political dimensions that arise on this basis, form a complex with a multilateral turnover of roles. Analytical reflections in this area, understandably, also form a fragmented and even polarized picture. On one flank, such conjugation is interpreted in the spirit of isomorphism (in the logic of mutual substitution and unambiguous mapping), in the form of a synthesis, which is based on a certain general ascriptive nature, or essentialist principles of understanding. Identity is set even before identification is attempted, and language is present as an attribute, that is, inseparable. The diametrical position lies in the divergence of language and identity, since the abstract vision of “language” as a system does not at all presuppose a conscious unity of the participants in communication and the carriers of verbal behavior. In the “middle” zone, there is a wide range of judgments regarding the fact that language and identity can interact at the level of modi (but not attributes). Linguistic subjectivity reflects both the motivation for mutual understanding (communicative function) and the need for identification. This leads to logical consequences – languages and identity touch in the plane of the symbolic, and political influence can occur both in terms of traditionally understood language policy, and language politics. The article is distinguished by significantly less institutionalization, the absence of “hard” formal procedural grounds and decisions. Semantic properties in this case suggest a much wider agent composition, and multilevel structures (macro-, meso- and microscales). The expediency of analytical development of this type of politics is associated with the possibility of flexible response to the correlation of language and politics in their situational dynamics, including at the “grassroots” level.

What is taken for granted in autism research?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Ilana Friedner
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Autism Research ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research

Abstract This commentary focuses on three points: the need to consider semiotic ideologies of both researchers and autistic people, questions of commensurability, and problems with “the social” as an analytical concept. It ends with a call for new research methodologies that are not deficit-based and that consider a broad range of linguistic and non-linguistic communicative practices.

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