Media and Communication Technologies, A Critical Introduction, Stephen Lax (2009)

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Martin L Bell
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Media And Communication

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGIES IN CREATIVE ECONOMY AND CREATIVE SOCIETY

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 855-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas KAČERAUSKAS
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Media And Communication

The article deals with issues of technologies in the environment of creative economy and creative society, mostly focusing on the following topics: 1) invasion of technologies, which is accompanied by technical illiteracy or simplification of intellection presupposed by a certain technique (e.g. computers); 2) new technologies emerge in the environment dominated by consumption in order to boost consumption; 3) political, media and communication technologies are intertwined to the extent that allows us to speak about the technologized society; 4) technologies are inseparable from creative activities: on the one hand, development of technologies needs creativity, on the other hand, every branch of creative industries needs certain technologies; 5) technologic development is conditioned by their syncretism, i.e. their ability to serve the art (technē) of life and creative intentions; 6) in the creative society, happiness does not depend on constantly upgraded (i.e. consumed) technologies but is rather possible in spite of them; 7) unlimitedness is the greatest limitation of global technologies: unconnected with any existential region, they billow in the wind of ever newer technologies.

Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Herrera
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Generational Consciousness ◽  
Active Generation

Youth are coming of age in a digital era and learning and exercising citizenship in fundamentally different ways compared to previous generations. Around the globe, a monumental generational rupture is taking place that is being facilitated—not driven in some inevitable and teleological process—by new media and communication technologies. The bulk of research and theorizing on generations in the digital age has come out of North America and Europe; but to fully understand the rise of an active generation requires a more inclusive global lens, one that reaches to societies where high proportions of educated youth live under conditions of political repression and economic exclusion. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), characterized by authoritarian regimes, surging youth populations, and escalating rates of both youth connectivity and unemployment, provides an ideal vantage point to understand generations and power in the digital age. Building toward this larger perspective, this article probes how Egyptian youth have been learning citizenship, forming a generational consciousness, and actively engaging in politics in the digital age. Author Linda Herrera asks how members of this generation who have been able to trigger revolt might collectively shape the kind of sustained democratic societies to which they aspire. This inquiry is informed theoretically by the sociology of generations and methodologically by biographical research with Egyptian youth.

scholarly journals Pamięć w kulturze teraźniejszości

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Tarkowska
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Media And Communication

One of the most substantial interdisciplinary topics in the study of contemporary culture is change in social time, which is expressed in the compression of time (and space) and changing relationships between the past, present, and future. Research and analysis situate the present in an exceptional position in contemporary culture, providing us with the term ‘culture of the present.’ At the same time, however, we are dealing with a phenomenon labeled the ‘explosion of memory’—an astounding multidirectional and multifaceted rise in interest in the past. It is therefore worthwhile to investigate the structures and mechanisms of collective memory, as well as how the past is defined in contemporary culture, from the perspective of time as a social and cultural phenomenon. Questions should be asked regarding the mechanisms that unite the dominance of the present in culture with a rising interest in the past. The perspective of social time reveals that the ‘culture of the present,’ the current dominating forms of memory intensification, and the heightened awareness of the past, are influenced by the same or similar factors. These include new media and communication technologies, as well as consumption and popular culture, which change the structure of time, condense the time horizon, alter the manner in which the past is experienced, and modify the mechanisms of collective memory.

Twitter Frames

2013 ◽  
pp. 202-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziz Douai ◽  
Mohamed Ben Moussa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Media And Communication

This chapter reports preliminary findings from a larger investigation of the role of social media and communication technologies in the “Arab Democracy Spring.” The goal of the study is to analyze how Egyptian activists used Twitter during the 2011 protests. This stage of the project specifically outlines ways of identifying and classifying some of the most influential Egyptian Twitter users during these events. In addition to profiling the “influentials,” this study applies a framing perspective to understanding Twitter’s use among Egyptian activists.

scholarly journals Lost in translation : new media, performance, & identity in Quebec

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Lost In Translation

A descriptive exploration of the impact on contemporary Québécois performing arts by new media and communication technologies, this thesis provides a historical and critical evaluation of "multimedia theatre" in Quebec. Drawing on Turner's theories of performative ritual and Armour & Trott's writing on culture and the Canadian mind, as well as the work of Benjamin, Ellul, Grant, Heidegger, Innis, and McLuhan on technology and cultural production, and the issues of time and space raised by the work of Gilles Maheu, Josette Féral, Patrice Pavis, and Robert Lepage, among others, this thesis argues that while prior research has located Quebec's arts culture in provincial drives for sovereignty and cultural recognition, it might better be understood as a narrative of a people in search of self-identification, offering new perspectives by which to understand an interlinked development of technology and artistic endeavour that has long been in need of critical examination.

Journalism and Media

2015 ◽  
pp. 2179-2195
Author(s):  
Pamela E. Walck ◽  
Yusuf Kalyango Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Organizations ◽  
Media And Communication

This chapter investigates how fast-changing mobile technology has transformed the traditional approach to journalism education at some major mass communication schools, media organizations, and institutions in the United States. This traditional approach to instruction, referred to here as its pedagogical niche, is defined as instructional methods, content, and tools used in mass communication academic, practice and training units. The first and primary objective of this chapter will be to determine how journalism academic institutions are using the rapidly changing media and communication technologies, particularly mobile tools, to reinvent themselves and to enhance their curricula and teaching effectiveness. The second objective is to determine how media organizations have adapted to the increasing use of mobile technologies in journalism.

Indigenous Media and Social Media Convergence: Adaptation of Storytelling on Twitter, SoundCloud and YouTube

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110491
Author(s):  
Phillip Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Secondary Form ◽  
Media And Communication

Storytelling is ordinarily trivialised as an antiquated oramedia genre, and of less significance in Zimbabwean mainstream media and communication studies, hence it is understudied. Recent studies largely take a literary gaze on storytelling, and do not theorise it from an indigenous media viewpoint or appreciate its convergence with social media. Drawing on concepts of media convergence and the digital public sphere, this netnographic study examines the adaptation of storytelling on Twitter, SoundCloud and YouTube, focusing on patterns of production, delivery, participation, language forms, reception and audiences. The article shows inventive re-embodiment and adaptation of storytelling on online spaces, that is, the endurance and remaking of indigenous media in the context of new media and communication technologies. The manifestation of the folktale narrative style on social media exhibits the rise of a secondary form of orality recreated, reproduced and applied in the digital form and on social media. While digital and social media are perceived as threatening the continued existence of indigenous media, this article attests social media as breathing spaces for indigenous media.

Journalism and Media

2014 ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela E. Walck ◽  
Yusuf Kalyango
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Organizations ◽  
Media And Communication

This chapter investigates how fast-changing mobile technology has transformed the traditional approach to journalism education at some major mass communication schools, media organizations, and institutions in the United States. This traditional approach to instruction, referred to here as its pedagogical niche, is defined as instructional methods, content, and tools used in mass communication academic, practice and training units. The first and primary objective of this chapter will be to determine how journalism academic institutions are using the rapidly changing media and communication technologies, particularly mobile tools, to reinvent themselves and to enhance their curricula and teaching effectiveness. The second objective is to determine how media organizations have adapted to the increasing use of mobile technologies in journalism.

Dialogue and Its Discontents: Theological and Anthropological Reflections

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-503
Author(s):  
Colleen Mary Mallon
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Catholic Perspective

Dialogue or diatribe? With the global advancement of media and communication technologies comes an increase in niche communities of like-mindedness. How is our global predicament shaping our ecclesial notion of dialogue? In this paper, I first explore the theological understanding of dialogue from a Roman Catholic perspective. Then I approach the question, “Can we talk?” from three distinct anthropological viewpoints and conclude by suggesting areas of missiological concern.

Study on the Technology of MPLS in Wide Area Protection System

2012 ◽  
Vol 463-464 ◽  
pp. 1355-1359
Author(s):  
Yi Ming Cai ◽  
Ze Li
Keyword(s):  
Communication Network ◽  
Power System ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Communication Performance ◽  
Wide Area Protection ◽  
Communication Scheme ◽  
Media And Communication

Subject to protection of power system, the article analyzes the communication technologies suitable for the current WAPS like IP exchange technology and MPLS etc. and analyzes the feasibility of these technologies in the field of power system WAPS. After comparative analysis of the current communication means, i.e. physical media and communication model etc., the article proposes a WAPS communication network scheme based on MPLS technology. Finally, the article uses network emulation software OPNET to simulate the communication performance of this communication scheme, compares it with current WAPS communication networks and gets the conclusion that the proposed wide area communication network scheme meets WAPS communication requirements

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