scholarly journals Parental internet activity and communication through the new media - literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-235
Author(s):  
Paulina Szymańska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Family System ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Remote Communication ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Role Based

Global economic and social transformations, as well as technological progress, require people to modify used methods of communication. Traditional forms of information exchange have given way to the so-called new media enabling trouble-free communication using the Internet. These changes also affected family life. Digitization, appearing at each stage of the functioning of the family system, is to some extent based on remote communication processes, allowing its individual members to carry out their development tasks. According to the theory of social learning, parents constitute the basic pattern of behavior that children derive from and reproduce. Therefore, parental functioning in the virtual world is important for the later adaptive use of the Web by representatives of the younger generation. In addition, online communication acts as a source of information and a normalizer of social relations, fosters building interpersonal competencies and identity, and modifies the way of fulfilling the parental role. Based on the above-mentioned aspects, this article characterizes the process of digitization of motherhood and fatherhood, showing the basic ways and consequences of using the Internet by parents, and systematizing the knowledge about communication functions in the context of mothers and fathers online activity.

A Diachronic Analysis of Portuguese Digital Campaigning

2017 ◽  
pp. 729-745
Author(s):  
Rui Alexandre Novais ◽  
Álvaro Cúria
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Multiple Wave ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Important Interaction ◽  
Digital Campaigning

Bearing in mind the dearth of inquiry about new media and political campaigns in Portugal, this chapter proposes an unprecedented cross-cutting analysis of the nature of online communication during the period of explosion of the e-campaigns. Such a topography and cartography for Internet communications and political campaigning, comprising distinct elections over time, allows for assessing both the evolution of the campaign online and the most influential contributions of the Internet to those evolving trends. The multiple wave nature of the data involved in the chronological study of the 2000 campaigns in Portugal is further complemented with extensive in-depth interviews conducted with different actors from the limited universe of key respondents with direct involvement in the episodes under analysis. It concludes that the Internet went from a separate operation in previous campaigns to a more central role within all Portuguese campaign divisions. Despite being touted as a revolution and a great communication tool, the core features of the Internet have reinforced the continuity of previous tendencies rather than precipitating a radical break with the past. Moreover, although important interaction flows were created with the voters, those were discontinued once the campaign was over, thus making Websites, online platforms, social networks profiles, and video sharing channels used during campaign as obsolete as old leaflets left on the floor after the rally has ended.

A Diachronic Analysis of Portuguese Digital Campaigning

2014 ◽  
pp. 210-225
Author(s):  
Rui Alexandre Novais ◽  
Álvaro Cúria
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Multiple Wave ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Important Interaction ◽  
Digital Campaigning

Bearing in mind the dearth of inquiry about new media and political campaigns in Portugal, this chapter proposes an unprecedented cross-cutting analysis of the nature of online communication during the period of explosion of the e-campaigns. Such a topography and cartography for Internet communications and political campaigning, comprising distinct elections over time, allows for assessing both the evolution of the campaign online and the most influential contributions of the Internet to those evolving trends. The multiple wave nature of the data involved in the chronological study of the 2000 campaigns in Portugal is further complemented with extensive in-depth interviews conducted with different actors from the limited universe of key respondents with direct involvement in the episodes under analysis. It concludes that the Internet went from a separate operation in previous campaigns to a more central role within all Portuguese campaign divisions. Despite being touted as a revolution and a great communication tool, the core features of the Internet have reinforced the continuity of previous tendencies rather than precipitating a radical break with the past. Moreover, although important interaction flows were created with the voters, those were discontinued once the campaign was over, thus making Websites, online platforms, social networks profiles, and video sharing channels used during campaign as obsolete as old leaflets left on the floor after the rally has ended.

scholarly journals Death and the virtual: memorialization on social networking websites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Curtis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
Memorial Sites ◽  
New Media Technologies

"The shift towards online communication has impacted many aspects of our lives, in that we increasingly use the internet in ways that have a lasting impact on our lived experience. One of the ways this impact occurs is through the virtual manifestation of phenomena related to death. Customs related to death - such as funerals and memorials - are being remediated on the internet in ways that are varied and complex. Remediation, a term introduced by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, involves the reinvention of previous forms of media using new media technologies.1 In this way, every form of media is understood to be a new version of a form of media that already existed. Looking at sites of memorialization of all kinds through the framework of remediation illuminates the ways that the manifestation of issues related to death and memorialization on the internet has and will continue to both complicate and enhance the ways these sites are experienced and conceptualized by those that visit them. While traditional physical memorial sites have always existed - and will continue to exist - sites of remembrance that appear on the internet are emerging as a complementary medium of memorialization"--From the Introduction.

scholarly journals Death and the virtual: memorialization on social networking websites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Curtis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
Memorial Sites ◽  
New Media Technologies

"The shift towards online communication has impacted many aspects of our lives, in that we increasingly use the internet in ways that have a lasting impact on our lived experience. One of the ways this impact occurs is through the virtual manifestation of phenomena related to death. Customs related to death - such as funerals and memorials - are being remediated on the internet in ways that are varied and complex. Remediation, a term introduced by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, involves the reinvention of previous forms of media using new media technologies.1 In this way, every form of media is understood to be a new version of a form of media that already existed. Looking at sites of memorialization of all kinds through the framework of remediation illuminates the ways that the manifestation of issues related to death and memorialization on the internet has and will continue to both complicate and enhance the ways these sites are experienced and conceptualized by those that visit them. While traditional physical memorial sites have always existed - and will continue to exist - sites of remembrance that appear on the internet are emerging as a complementary medium of memorialization"--From the Introduction.

Embedding the Net

2011 ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Loader ◽  
Barry Hague ◽  
Dave Eagle
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Information ◽  
Technological Developments

Throughout the world millions of people are getting online to the Internet to exchange information and communicate with each other to form what Howard Rheingold has famously described as ‘virtual communities’ (1994). The revolutionary potential of the new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), currently epitomized by the Internet and other Web-based technologies, to transform social relations has not surprisingly grasped the imagination of the media, academics, politicians, businesspeople and members of the public more generally. It has produced an extensive and often fierce debate about the possible beneficial consequences of such technological developments for social interaction which is based more around common interests rather than spatial proximity. Such optimistic visions have also been matched by alternative dystopian depictions of the new media facilitating the emergence of surveillance societies (Lyon, 1994; Davies, 1996). Yet, in whatever form the arguments are couched, their emphasis on remote communication often acts to disassociate individuals from the everyday experience of the communities they live in. It is as if there is no place for localized face-to-face interaction between people in the Information Age. Whilst we do not preclude ‘communities of interest’ and recognize that the term community itself can be used in many ways, our own approach to community informatics (CI) has been shaped by the desire to reconnect locally spaced communities to the wider electronic network of cyberspace.

scholarly journals Online Political Campaigning during the 2014 Regional Elections in Poland

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Baranowski
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
Online Communication Tools ◽  
Online Campaigning ◽  
Internet Revolution ◽  
Regional Elections

This article is dedicated to the analysis and evaluation of political communication on a regional level. Without any doubt, the Internet revolution affected electoral campaigning on every level. Online campaigning before local elections is often marginalized by political scientists and other scholars researching political marketing. However, the question emerges: are the candidates aware of the possibilities that new media has brought to political communication? Content analysis of all the major online communication tools has allowed the author to analyze the patterns of using websites, official Facebook profiles and Twitter accounts of candidates during the 2014 Lower Silesian Regional assembly elections. The Lower Silesian Voivodeship is among the fastest developing regions in Poland with high Internet penetration rate. Is the Internet campaign treated as a second-class way to communicate with potential voters, or is it perceived as an opportunity to reach electorate online?

scholarly journals YENİ MEDYADA ÇAĞINDA AKILLI TELEFONLARDA FOTOĞRAF

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Ayşe Kahraman
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Technological Opportunities

With combining new media and technology, there has emerged a different field. So, it has been made hard to determine the definition and scope of the new media. Constant change and development of technological opportunities also affect communication processes. Besides, the origin of the new media is computer-based; it has become desktop publishing programs, smart tablets, and manipulations on photos. The merging of photography and new media art has become one of the most popular areas via technology and the internet. This article gives information about the formation, development, and technologies of photography in smartphones in the new media age. The study aims to provide information about what is photography, photography as a form of art, the art of new media, technological migration from the camera to the mobile phone, photographs on smartphones from new media tools, advances in science and technology, and how photography is continuously increasing. It is thought that the study may contribute to the field literature to be under a single roof.

Great Firewall

Virtual Words ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathon Keats
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Public Security ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many ◽  
State Secrets ◽  
Chinese Public

The Chinese government declared 1996 the Year of the Internet. There wasn’t much to it: only one person in ten thousand was connected—at a modem speed of 14.4 kilobits per second—and 86 percent of the population had never encountered a computer. Even in universities email was still a novelty, haltingly introduced in 1994. Yet in one respect China was the most advanced nation on the planet. Using equipment supplied by Sun Microsystems and Cisco, the Chinese Public Security Bureau had corralled the entire country, all 3,705,000 square miles, within a fanghuo qiang, or firewall. The firewall promised to make the internet safe for autocracy. All online communication could be monitored, at least in principle, and access to any website could be denied. On February 1, 1996, Premier Li Peng signed State Council Order 195, officially placing the government “in charge of overall planning, national standardization, graded control, and the development of all areas related to the internet,” and expressly forbidding users “to endanger national security or betray state secrets.” Enforcement was arbitrary. Discipline was imposed by the dread of uncertainty. This was an inevitability, since the Public Security Bureau couldn’t possibly watch all online activity within China, let alone block every objectionable web page worldwide. Interviewed by Wired magazine, the computer engineer overseeing the fanghuo qiang bluntly explained his working policy: “You make a problem for us, and we’ll make a law for you.” In many countries such a firewall might have stifled development, but most Chinese weren’t interested in making problems. They were attracted to the internet’s dazzling potential, as advertised on billboards that encouraged them to “join the internet club, meet today’s successful people, experience the spirit of the age, drink deep of the cup of leisure.” Those who could afford a connection, which cost approximately half the monthly salary of a recent college graduate, casually referred to the fanghuo qiang as the wangguan , calmly evoking the many guan (passes) of the Great Wall as natural features of China’s wan wei wang (ten-thousand-dimensional web).

Making the Most of the Internet for Failure Analysis

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan J. Bodoh
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Optimization Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
Computer Monitors ◽  
And Storage

Abstract The growth of the Internet over the past four years provides the failure analyst with a new media for communicating his results. The new digital media offers significant advantages over analog publication of results. Digital production, distribution and storage of failure analysis results reduces copying costs and paper storage, and enhances the ability to search through old analyses. When published digitally, results reach the customer within minutes of finishing the report. Furthermore, images on the computer screen can be of significantly higher quality than images reproduced on paper. The advantages of the digital medium come at a price, however. Research has shown that employees can become less productive when replacing their analog methodologies with digital methodologies. Today's feature-filled software encourages "futzing," one cause of the productivity reduction. In addition, the quality of the images and ability to search the text can be compromised if the software or the analyst does not understand this digital medium. This paper describes a system that offers complete digital production, distribution and storage of failure analysis reports on the Internet. By design, this system reduces the futzing factor, enhances the ability to search the reports, and optimizes images for display on computer monitors. Because photographic images are so important to failure analysis, some digital image optimization theory is reviewed.

MULTIMEDIA ENVIROMENT OF GERMAN POLEMIC DISCOURSE

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Anna Udelkina
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Site ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Multimedia Environment ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Main Activity

This article is devoted to the study of the multimedia environment of the polemic discourse in German media with its diverse formats of impact on the audience and the actively developing internal dynamics of texts. If at the end of the XXth century the specifics of German media were the use of the Internet site as one of the possibilities to present copies of newspapers and magazines in electronic form, today we can speak of modified, hybrid Internet versions of printed publications that do not just create websites on the Internet that duplicate their main activity, but also combines the features of the traditional press and features of the functioning of texts on the Internet. The transition from linear, monomedia broadcasting platforms to discrete, multimedia ones has a significant impact on the process of creating, designing and placing modern polemics. Texts of articles and user comments are considered in the article as tmaterialization of the polemic discourse in the media. Polemic texts are formed on the basis of intertextual structures and have a hypertext nature. The use of multimedia tools (a variety of fonts, graphics, animation, photo, video and sound) in the text of the article allows the author not only to expand the amount of information provided, but also to qualitatively supplement its content through inline inclusions tn the text, to express the meaning of information by referring to verbal and non-verbal means; to provide a visual and figurative presentation of information (graphs, charts, tables), to attract attention and influence the audience, as well as to provide readers with the opportunity to participate in information exchange.

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