scholarly journals The Arrival of Prosumers and Produsers: Transformations of User Practices in the New Media

Monitor ISH ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Tadej Praprotnik
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Multimedia Production ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Basic Characteristics

The article presents the phenomenon of new communication technologies. Focusing on the role of the social media (Web 2.0), it sketches certain global trends in the field of the new media and explains the role of software as an important ‘generator’ of everyday life. The basic characteristics of the traditional one-way mass communication and consumption of media products are contrasted with the interactive nature of the new media and a recent resulting phenomenon – user-generated media contents. The article goes on to present an important element of the new media cultures – interactivity, discussing its transforming effect on such traditional media categories as the ‘audience’, and introducing categories typical of the new media, such as ‘produser’ and ‘prosumer’. Technology is discussed as an elaborate and fluid apparatus dependent on society: an apparatus which reinforces the new and previously ignored cultural relations. The process of multimedia production is presented through different types of inclusion as promised by the technological forms. The article further investigates the World Wide Web as a multimedia form which has absorbed many other media types. The multimedia production of web pages and other cultural products has been a major channel for the democratisation of cultural production, as well as a field for the expression of individuals. The final topic to be addressed is the question of creativity, which is an important promise of the new media production.

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.

Analysis of Data Model for News Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
O Balalaieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Synergetic Effect ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Metadata Model ◽  
Modern Mass

Abstract. The article deals with communicative aspect of using metadata in news media. The relevance of the study is due to the objective need for theoretical justification and the specification of new communication models that have arisen with new channels of communication emergence, media digitalization and convergence. Some modern scientific works raise issue of “the communication of metadata model” in connection with the development of metadata journalism. In particular, the purpose of this article is to analyze the components of the metadata model in news media by the standard of the International Press Telecommunications Council. The rNews standard defines the terminology and a data model for embedding metadata in web documents. It was found that the rNews data model is nonlinear, because the communication in new media is positioned as a two-way process of interaction of actors. The model captures the feedback elements: one of its components is the User Comments Class with the relevant attributes, which, on the one hand, helps to make communication more effective, as the active role of the audience is provided, supported and stimulated, and on the other – makes it possible to create the original metatext. In the communicative aspect, the model is based on a two-way asymmetric model that fixes the feedback, but retains the leading role of the communicator. Asymmetry is reflected in the quantitative (disproportion between the number of “professional” and “naïve” communicators), communicative (disproportion of the “voices” of communicators and recipients, interfering with the building a dialogue) and intentional (unequal intentions of communicators and recipients) forms. The model reflects the general trends in the development of modern mass communication: the target setting for the formation not knowledge, but opinion, the removal of barriers to the involvement of audience in communication, the shift of information from the objective, factual, not related to the situation and participants of communication to a pragmatic, subjective one, synergetic effect of interactive polycode content. Issues of modeling communication processes in new digital media, the transformation of the roles of communicators and recipients, the formation and dissemination of polycode content, its impact on the audience are promising areas of further research and can be explored in various aspects.

Evolving Information Ecologies

2009 ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen ◽  
Jorgen P. Bansler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Information Ecologies

This chapter examines how people in organizations appropriate new computer-based media, that is, how they adopt, reconfigure, and integrate advanced communication technologies such as groupware or desktop conferencing systems into their work practice. The chapter presents and analyzes findings from an in-depth field study of the adoption and use of a Web-based groupware application—a “virtual workspace”—in a large multinational firm. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the fact that people in modern organizations have plenty of media at their disposal and often combine old and new media to accomplish their work tasks. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of organizational communication genres in shaping how people adopt and use new media. The authors argue that understanding and facilitating the process of appropriation is the key to the successful introduction of new media in organizations.

Wikis as an Exemplary Model of Open Source Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 681-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
Exemplary Model

In their simplest form, Wikis are Web pages that allow people to collaboratively create and edit documents online. Key principles of simplicity, robustness, and accessibility underlie the wiki publication system. It is the open and free spirit of Wikis fundamental to open source software (OSS) that offers new contexts for learning and knowledge creation with technology. This chapter will briefly consider the role of technology in learning before discussing Wikis and their development. The emerging literature on the application of Wikis to education will be reviewed and discussed. It will be argued that Wikis embody an exemplary model of open source learning that has the potential to transform the use of information communication technologies in education.

scholarly journals The Experience of VaccinarSinToscana Website and the Role of New Media in Promoting Vaccination

Vaccines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 644
Author(s):  
Sara Boccalini ◽  
Paolo Bonanni ◽  
Fabrizio Chiesi ◽  
Giulia Di Pisa ◽  
Federica Furlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
General Population ◽  
New Media ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Of Florence

The Department of Health Sciences (University of Florence) developed a regional website “VaccinarSinToscana” in order to provide information on vaccines and communicate with the general population, as well as the healthcare community, at a regional and local level. The aim of this paper is to present the VaccinarSinToscana website framework and analyze the three-year activity of the website and the related social network account on Facebook in terms of dissemination and visibility. In the first three years since its launch, the VaccinarSinToscana portal has increased its visibility: the number of single users, visits and single web pages has grown exponentially. Our results also demonstrate how the Facebook account launch contributed enormously to the increase in the visibility of the website. The objective for the future of the VaccinarSinToscana portal is to grow further, in order to reach out to an even wider audience.

scholarly journals Politicizing participatory culture at the margins: The significance of class, gender and online media for the practices of youth networks in the MENA region

2020 ◽  
pp. 174276652098202
Author(s):  
Shakuntala Banaji ◽  
Cristina Moreno-Almeida
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Political Intervention

Our paper focuses on case studies of artistic, creative and political participation by young feminists and civil society groups in Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and the UAE. Central questions uncover the intersecting significance of class, gender and new media in young MENA citizens’ participation; the connections between mediated cultural production and political intervention; and the role of structural barriers for online community and agency. Our conclusions challenge the notion that the democratic ethos of civic participation networks has burgeoned since digitization, and highlights that digital tools and online spaces work more effectively for youth with existing offline economic power and/or cultural capital.

scholarly journals Mediatization of Anti-Corruption Policy: a Theoretical Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Olga Rusakova ◽  
Ekaterina Gribovod
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Theoretical Treatment ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The article deals with the phenomenon of mediatization of anti-corruption policies. The authors study theoretical treatment of the role of the mass media in anti-corruption practices and analyze methodological approaches to interpretation of the mediatization. These include discourse-linguistic, cratologic, and resource-communication approaches. The discourse-linguistic approach involves mainly an analysis of the contents of media texts and images that generate a required public opinion and form stable cognitive matrices of peoples anti-corruption thinking. The cratologic approach regards mediacracy as both government institution and a subject of an anti-corruption policy. It also helps to find a number of information techniques (like agenda-setting, priming, framing, etc.) aimed at forming a legal anti-corruption culture. The resource-communication approach describes mediatization of anti-corruption policies by means of citizen journalism, new media and a vast range of mass communication media. The authors make an attempt to identify key features of the process of mediatization of anti-corruption policy at different stages of its development. The term «mediatization of anti-corruption policy» is defined as a system of measures to provide information support for anti-corruption activities. It is inferred that, overall, the contemporary mass media are successfully accumulating a required technological, organizational and communicative potential for information warfare against corruption. However, extra efforts and the national will would sufficiently add to the efficiency of this potential.

scholarly journals Communication Technologies and their Effect on Cultural Homogeneity, Consensus, and the Diffusion of New Ideas

1995 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Carley
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Message Complexity ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Impact

A view of communication technologies as creating artificial agents and affecting the information-processing capabilities of agents is forwarded The constructural theory is adapted to account for agents varying in their information-processing capabilities and, hence, to account for technology. Given this theoretical modification, the constructural model is used to examine the impact of different communication technologies and sociocultural landscapes on the rate at which information diffuses and the time it takes for the society to reach cultural homogeneity and consensus. The findings suggest that as the available communication technologies change, the role of the sociocultural landscape in effecting social change varies. Paradoxically, this research suggests that mass-communication technologies that enable greater competition among messages and greater message complexity will enable faster information diffusion than will those technologies that inhibit competition and message complexity.

Evolving Information Ecologies

2009 ◽  
pp. 751-769
Author(s):  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen ◽  
Jorgen P. Bansler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Information Ecologies

This chapter examines how people in organizations appropriate new computer-based media, that is, how they adopt, recon?gure, and integrate advanced communication technologies such as groupware or desktop conferencing systems into their work practice. The chapter presents and analyzes ?ndings from an in-depth ?eld study of the adoption and use of a Web-based groupware application—a “virtual workspace”—in a large multinational ?rm. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the fact that people in modern organizations have plenty of media at their disposal and often combine old and new media to accomplish their work tasks. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of organizational communication genres in shaping how people adopt and use new media. The authors argue that understanding and facilitating the process of appropriation is the key to the successful introduction of new media in organizations.

The Role of Social Media Use in Health Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-104
Author(s):  
Mehmet Karanfiloglu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Short Time

In the digitalized world, the use of social media is increasing and spreading to many areas. Moreover, the process of digitalization of everything transforms the media tools and fits mass communication into digital coding together with interpersonal communication. Health communication ensues between doctors, patients, and other healthcare professionals, and its strength is important. Health institutions, doctors, and patients can now communicate through new media and discuss health-related issues through these channels. Many phone applications have transformed health into e-health by digitizing the patient-doctor relationship. On the other hand, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which spread from China to the whole world and affected almost every country in a short time, forced the world to a more isolated lifestyle. This study investigates the role of new media opportunities in health communication during the pandemic. In this context, the literature research is examined.

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