scholarly journals The Virus Covid-19 and Dilemmas of Online Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Evaluative Inquiry ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
History Of

Commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic must necessarily consider the medical issues in social and political context. This paper discusses one important dimension of the context, the long-term history of human activity as intrinsically technological in its nature. The pandemic has accelerated the use of technology to mediate relations between people “at a distance”. This involves not only a change in the skills people have (though acquiring these skills has become the central project of work for many people), but changes the sort of person they are. Our notions of “closeness” and “distance”, or of “touching” and “being touched”, and so on, refer simultaneously to states that are spatial and emotional, factual and evaluative. Inquiry into the differences in human relations where there is physical presence and where there is not raises very significant questions. What are the differences and why are they thought, and felt, to matter? What are the differences when the relationship is supposed to be a therapeutic one? What are the financial and political interests at work in enforcing relations at a distance by new media, i.e., “mediated” relations? How is a person’s agency affected by a lack of freedom to move or a lack of face-to-face contact? What happens to all those human relations for which physical presence was previously the norm, relations such as those performed in the rituals of birth, marriage and death, or in activities like sport and the arts? Can it be said that new technologies involve a “loss of soul”? The present paper seeks to provide a reflective and open-ended framework for asking such questions.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social and Digital Medias on Senegalese Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ousmane Sall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
West African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rich History

West African countries especially Senegal, have a very rich history of written and oral communication based on their culture and traditions. Today, Senegal is inescapable about the adoption and use of new technologies in Africa. Senegal experienced a boom of cell phones users over the past 5 years in 2012 for example, we noticed “88% mobile subscriptions” compared with “46% mobile subscriptions in 2008” {world bank,2013}. That explains mobile phones are no more to make a call or to send a text message but also to interact with people around and entertain. In fact, digital communication is expanding in all Senegalese spheres like the workplace, school, universities... in the latter half of the 20th century before the explosion of social media, people only depended on old media like TV, Radio, Newspapers… to get informed. For this study, we are going to focus on how social media are impacting economically and politically on Senegalese society and how young people are managing the transition between traditional media and new media.

Art and New Technology in Mexico: The National Center for the Arts

Leonardo ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Di Castro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The author chronicles the history of Mexico's Centro Nacional de las Artes (National Center for the Arts) in Mexico City, and in particular the Multimedia Center, a space dedicated to the creation and teaching of the arts and preservation of cultural heritage through the use of new technologies such as CD-ROMs, the Internet and teleconferencing, as well as exhibitions. After 10 years of operation, the Multimedia Center faces new types of challenges as the new technologies become successfully integrated into creative practice. In response to the changing environment, the center is moving toward collaborations with similar institutions internationally and toward new funding models.

scholarly journals Photo Filter Apps: Understanding Analogue Nostalgia in the New Media Ecology

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Caoduro
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Evolution ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical History ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
History Of

As digital media have become more pervasive and entrenched in our daily routines, a nostalgic countertrend has increasingly valued the physical and tactile nature of the analogue image. In the past few years, technologically obsolete devices, such as lo-fi cameras and vinyl records, have not faded out of sight completely but are instead experiencing a comeback. At the same time, digital media capitalise on the nostalgia for the analogue and fetishise the retro aesthetics of old technologies. This article explores the emergence of photo filter and effect applications which allow users to modify digital photos, adding signifiers of age such as washed-out colours, scratches and torn borders. It is argued that these new technologies, with programs such as Instagram, Hipstamatic and Camera 360, bring back the illusory physicality of picture-taking through digital skeuomorphism. Drawing on media archaeology practice, this article interrogates the limits of the retro sensibility and the fetishisation of the past in the context of digital media, in particular by focusing on the case study of the start-up Instagram. This photo filter application neither merely stresses the twilight nature of photography nor represents the straightforward digital evolution of previous analogue features. Rather, it responds to the necessity to feel connected to the past by clear and valued signs of age, mimicking a perceived sense of loss. Faced with the persistent hipster culture and the newness of digital media, photo filter apps create comfortable memories, ageing pictures and adding personal value. As such, it will be argued that this phenomenon of nostalgia for analogue photography can be linked to the concepts of ritual and totem. By providing a critical history of Instagram as a photo-sharing social network, this article aims to explain new directions in the rapidly changing system of connective media.

scholarly journals Azai Dosi Kfaang (Modern or Families of Newness): Kom Families from Village to Coast and Further Diasporic Spaces

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Walter Gam Nkwi
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village

This paper focuses on “families of newness”, which amongst the Kom of Northwest Cameroon are known as azai dosi kfaang. It argues that because of geographical and social mobility experiences, families have not remained static, and consequently, the further they go from the village the more modernized they become. In recent times, African societies as well as family histories have been concerned with connecting with those who have been left behind. As a result, the blueprint that marks out the African family today is found in its mobility both within and out of the continent. At the same time, what glues the family together is the newer forms of technologies encapsulated in Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), which include amongst many others the cell phone, internet, WhatsApp, and Twitter. Letters pre-dated these new technologies and were significantly used by migrant families to stay “in touch”. Families began in the village, and as newer technologies were introduced—motor cars, a postal service and motorable roads—they moved or thought about places further away. With later technological developments, such as air travel and the mobile phone, families found themselves in distant diasporic spaces. This paper therefore hopes to make a contribution that relates family history and the history of migration to technology and social change. It also has the great value of discussing an area that gets too little attention in historiography. Fundamentally, the paper attempts to compare and contrast the use of technology, the news that could be shared (welfare, births, or obituaries), the length between contacts, the ability to make visits in person, the tensions that cropped up between family members abroad and those back at home in two periods, the 1930s–1940s and the 1990s to the present. What did these periods have in common? What was different and why? For the purpose of clarity, I will start the paper with a short introduction about the area, the issues of family formation, and kfaang. The second part of the paper will focus on the discussion of the “newness” of those who migrated to more modern places and the role of technology. The third part compares/contrasts the connections of families in the two periods (1930s–1940s and 1990s-present) in order to flesh out the argument.

scholarly journals Japońskie filmy o Ajnach w perspektywie amerykańskiego westernu

2019 ◽  
pp. 357-372
Author(s):  
Marek S. Bochniarz ◽  
Przemysław Sztafiej
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Western Films ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Northern Island ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
Film Studios ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constant Element

Recently the topic of transnationalism in the arts has become a popular strand of academic research. Nevertheless, this phenomenon is not an entirely new concept. In cinema it has been a constant element since its inception. One of the most important inspirations for world cinema has been the traditional cinematography of the USA, especially from the period of the great film studios, with the western being one of the most popular and imitated genres. Although it seems to be inextricably connected with the American myth of the frontier, the Wild West, the theme of expansion, and the conflict of ‘civilization’ and ‘wildness/savagery’ has reverberated outside the USA. In Japan westerns resonated on both the consumer-commercial and artistic levels. Japanese filmmakers utilized elements of the genre while weaving in some native contexts. The history of colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō and its native inhabitants – the Ainu people – have been a point of reference for Japan-based western films. In this article, the authors analyze the western-specific genre elements in Japanese films about the Ainu people, while concentrating on the portrayal of individuals, groups and human relations on the frontier.

A Media Interpretation of the Negative Impact of Cloud Technologies

2016 ◽  
pp. 403-420
Author(s):  
Michael S. Tang ◽  
Arunprakash T. Karunanithi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cloud Technologies

This chapter presents a media studies interpretation of the impact of Cloud communication technologies on traditional academic achievement. According to social media critics following the “medium is the message” theory of Marshall McLuhan, the hidden “message” in the new Cloud communication education technologies conflicts with the old message of the printed textbook, the traditional medium of communication in education since the printing press in the 16th and 17th centuries. The chapter begins with a brief history of media technologies in education to gain understanding into the nature of this conflict and follows with a review of research and studies that document the conflict's cause and consequences with the conclusion that a major factor in the proliferation of any new media communication technology is its commercial value. Moreover, because new technologies in education are driven by commercial interests, its pedagogical value becomes secondary resulting in what social media and other critics view as the dumbing down of the American student. These social media critics contend that not only have American students been declining intellectually, computer technologies, including the Cloud Internet communication technologies are the direct cause of this decline, raising the question, “is education technology an oxymoron?” Given this analysis of media communication technologies' impact on education, the authors then offer a possible way out of the current situation by proposing a more human factors approach towards Cloud technologies based on constructivist educational and cognitive styles theory.

The interaction between technologies and society: Lessons learned from 160 evolutionary years of online news services

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Online News ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Web Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Definition Of

In mapping the evolutionary process of online news and the socio-cultural factors determining this development, this paper has a dual purpose. First, in reworking the definition of “online communication”, it argues that despite its seemingly sudden emergence in the 1990s, the history of online news started right in the early days of the telegraphs and spread throughout the development of the telephone and the fax machine before becoming computer-based in the 1980s and Web-based in the 1990s. Second, merging macro-perspectives on the dynamic of media evolution by DeFleur and Ball-Rokeach (1989) and Winston (1998), the paper consolidates a critical point for thinking about new media development: that something technically feasible does not always mean that it will be socially accepted and/or demanded. From a producer-centric perspective, the birth and development of pre-Web online news forms have been more or less generated by the traditional media’s sometimes excessive hype about the power of new technologies. However, placing such an emphasis on technological potentials at the expense of their social conditions not only can be misleading but also can be detrimental to the development of new media, including the potential of today’s online news.

scholarly journals LIFE - DEATH CONTRAST IN FICTIONAL "BODY-SUBJECT APPROACH" AND OTHER VIRTUAL REALITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (35) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Media ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Body Subject

This study explains the life-death contrast and other virtual reality concepts through art works in two fundamental problems. In the first stage, a descriptive analysis of the arts of Baroque, Performance and Media, expression of the works included in the study, as well as the life – death contrast was made and interpreted. In the second stage, the other virtual reality approach has been described as an artistic expression of the feminist art, place of women in the history of art and women artists who want to bring down the male-dominant sense of art. Within the context of this description, the subject-body relationship has been interpreted with tendencies that build the reality on illusions with the feminist approach of virtual reality. In the limited sample, Pierre Le Gros’ “the Younger, Stanislas Kostka on His Deathbed”, Marina Abramovic’s “Balkan Baroque” Performance, and Bill Viola’s “Nantes Triptych” video work have been analyzed in terms of life-death contrast in fictional body-subject approach, and Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” installation were analyzed in terms of other virtual reality subject dependent conscious and fictional body. Keywords: Baroque, performance, New Media, installation, simulation, fictional body

What’s New?

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 664-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Shimpach
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
History Of ◽  
Industrial Modernity

New media is of course the great disruptor. So, too, should be its study. Television Studies’ and Media Studies’ embrace of the “new” and their continuing focus on new media forms, practices, and technologies is not itself anything new. The new has a history and is, in fact, a historically specific category. All media were once new, the new regularly remediates the old, and because the “new” is a product and effect of industrial modernity, there has never been a time when we were not confronted with new media and new technologies. The fact of the history of both new media and its study, therefore, is worth revisiting so that we may be more reflective and skeptical in approaching the latest, newest media things. The implications of unreflective emphasis on the new are only becoming more urgent and the potential for dire consequences increasingly apparent.

University Students and Technologies

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Nicola Cavalli ◽  
Paolo Ferri ◽  
Arianna Mainardi ◽  
Andrea Mangiatordi ◽  
Marina Micheli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The University

This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platforms and services in particular by students at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The data was obtained from a survey on media consumption habits and usage of new web technologies conducted by the university's Observatory on New Media, NuMediaBiOs. Research of this kind provides a valuable basis for the development, adaptation and improvement of existing services and offerings involving new technologies in educational contexts, given that for new technologies to be successfully integrated it is critical to have access to detailed information about how they are currently deployed by users (in this case, undergraduate students on basic degree programmes). Such analyses have implications for a range of contexts, not least for the public educational institution in which they are carried out, namely the university.

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