scholarly journals The Amphibian Filmmaker: A new evolutionary species In the time of the Post-truth

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Fernando Medina Cardona
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Internet Art ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View

This proposal is an exploration where film and new media art (particularly post-internet art) are approached from a perspective of the so-called post-truth. To do this, it starts from questioning the ideas ofobjectivity and the subject/object pair from two related points of view: how these ideas are interpreted in documentary films and how they play a role in the current scientific method crisis. This serves to give context to the problem of the image as a system of representation in both realms (film and science), and how truth is portrayed particularly in the realm of the technical image, serving to aesthetic and scientific purposes. Having mapped out this epistemological tension, three types of films are briefly discussed - the biopic, the intimate documentary and the false documentary - emphasizing on the latter and presenting it as the direct forerunner of the so-called “fakes” on the Internet. Moreover, the pair truth-objectivity is challenged in favor of false narratives that through humor or irony depict critical issues in a more engaging way. In order to do this, several examples are presented showing how the historical evolution of the single screen of the cinema into the multiple screens of the network society not only hybridizes creators with consumers,but expands with diversity the prior unequivocalness of the objectivity discourse. Finally, the concept of the amphibian filmmaker is posed, as a metaphor of a creator who is able to move on these fuzzy aesthetic territories being faithful to an artistic vision but also to a social and activist ethos.

scholarly journals New Media Art: Aligning Artistic Creativity And Technological Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-216
Author(s):  
Cătălin Soreanu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Internet Art ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article investigates the relationship between art and technology, pointing the constants of a process of cultural digestion which is mediated by the very sovereign technological environment – the Internet. Relying on the multiplicity and hybridization of the content formats, and also on the user involved interactivity as constructive vector-relationships, new media art and the internet art are natural consequences of the artistic practices of creative appropriation of contemporary technological media. As the complexity of the relationship between art and the technological environment becomes richer than ever, we assist to the creation of a contemporary ultra-technological culture, structurally dependent on the media and responsible for relativizing the critical positioning of the art consumer. Defining the premises of the interaction with a technologically interfaced world of art, the user (reader) of the Internet as a medium of expression is – equally – a consumer, and a producer of information (content).

scholarly journals Znaczenie Internetu dla zarządzania reputacją naukowca

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Anna Pawiak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Reputation Building

The article aims at drawing attention to opportunities of reputation management by researchers using new media, considering the importance of internet tools for image creation and identifying opportunities and threats. The research problem of the article focuses on answers to the question formulated as follows: What might the possible importance of the Internet for reputation building be? The problem relates to the issue of researchers’ active participation in creating and shaping their reputation online. The presented considerations have been based on literature and studies on the subject. The article attempts to clarify the distinction between the concepts of identity, image, and reputation. It discusses image-creating factors and refers to the question of immanent credibility and guise in research. The author describes examples of internet tools and points to their importance for reputation management, which concerns the sum of partial images accumulating over time. Communication plays an important role in building reputation. Owing to its availability, interactivity and variety of forms, as well as the speed of information transfer, the Internet has become an indispensable channel of communication. All researchers should recognise the fact in order to build their reputation thoughtfully. Their reputation involves a multitude of accumulated images formed as a result of interactions between factors associated with the subjects themselves, information the recipients obtain, and factors relating to the recipients. The conclusions of the study point to the necessity of reputation management by planned and deliberate actions taking advantage of internet tools. Thus, every effort should be made to prevent a situation where reputation is shaped irrespective of the interested person’s participation.

scholarly journals Techno - Feminism(s) : an investigation into challenging patriarchal hegemony in new media art

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Kieswetter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Art Activism ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Point Of Departure

This study aimed to use my own practice to explore patriarchal hegemony in new media art, and its relationship with technology (in this case the internet) through a feminist lens. In this research, the term ‘patriarchal hegemony’ refers to the internet/social media being an inherently male-dominated and controlled space. The theoretical framework is informed by theories from cultural studies addressed though a feminist scope. Furthermore, this study sought to critically analyse how techno-feminist (digitally driven and online feminist activism) artists and activists use technology, the internet, and social media as new innovative platforms. This feminist activism seeks to disrupt and create awareness of the dominant patriarchal hegemonic thinking within contemporary society (Morgan 2017:11). I used my own art practice as a point of departure to investigate techno-feminism and also conducted research on the work of other selected feminist artists who use their digital presence to articulate their media-based art activism. In addition, I critiqued how internet GIFs can be used as visual mechanisms to create awareness of patriarchal hegemony and propose alternatives.

scholarly journals Paris, « un lieu centre de tous les centres ». Est-ce toujours d’actualité ?

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-442
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Le Baillif
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
French Language ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Greenwich Meridian ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
World Centre ◽  
The City

Paris, “The Centre of All Centres”. Is It Still the Case? In La République Mondiale des Lettres published in 1999 and 2008, Ms. Casanova wrote: “Paris is the Greenwich meridian for literature” for the 19th and 20th centuries. Writers and artists have come to the city in the past because it was extremely attractive for creative and economic reasons. But at the beginning of the 21st century, with the rise of the New Media for writing, publishing and diffusing, is it correct to say that Paris is still supreme? Is location more important than the time devoted to writing and reading? The claims on which Ms. Casanova builds her assertions are not supported by the facts of recent history and geography. She refers to “La belle santé économique et la liberté” in Paris but she forgot to mention why artists came from central Europe. It was just because the life was cheaper in Paris than in Berlin, as Walter Benjamin observed in 1926. She notes that Paris was the world centre for high fashion and that writers came together there to be inspired by the place and each other. But these things are no longer true: Paris is one of the most unaffordable cities in the world. Fashion in clothes is determined in many centres, with fashion weeks held in New York, Milan and China; aesthetics no longer depend on a single country. Literary creativity has spread across many continents and the internet and social media provide access to millions of people around the globe. Globalisation has unified the world, note Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Sylvain Tesson, and brought the standardization of cultures. There is also the matter of the dominant language today. The French language has not changed since Ms. Casanova was doing her research, but French writers now dream of being translated into English to reach the largest audience around the world. Publishers also favour English to make the most profit because literature and art are now worldwide commodities. Writers and researchers use the Internet, which connects them with documents, libraries and people all over the world. Newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Figaro in France provide literary reviews from around the world; for example, Histoire de la Traduction Littéraire en Europe Médiane, compiled by Antoine Chalvin, Marie Vrinat-Nikolov, Jean-Léon Muller and Katre Talviste, was written up in Cahiers Littéraires du Monde. What about the readership? If publishing and merchandizing are accelerating and globalizing because of how the Internet changes time and distance, the writer still has to follow the rhythm of the subject.

scholarly journals TESTIMONIAL IN (NEW) MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Majchrowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Financial Benefit ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

The linguistic research of (the new) media so far has mainly focused on the analysis of content from broadcasters – people publishing on the Internet in order to convince the potential recipients to enter the website, read articles, explore the website as well as return after leaving it – in exchange for the material or financial benefit. Several years of observation of a variety of text types existing in the media shows that not only texts from broadcasters make it possible to notice and maintain this attention of recipients. Nowadays, similarly as in marketing and advertising, in the media (but not only there) the essential and productive content comes from the recipient. The subject of this quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis is the title testimonial as a rapidly growing persuasive (promotional) trend in (new) media and a response to the challenges of the modern society.

scholarly journals Border hacking: una conversione artistica dei confini nazionali nella società delle reti

Venezia Arti ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Berti
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Identity Control ◽  
Satellite Positioning ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Border Surveillance

Through the category of ‘border hack’ (proposed by Rita Raley) and the analysis of three meaningful artworks (Transborder Immigrant Tool by Electronic Disturbance Theatre 2.0 and b.a.n.g. lab, BorderXing Guide by Heath Bunting and Shadows from Another Place by Paula Levine), the aim of this article is to investigate the aesthetic-political practices around the notion of transnational border. These are works of a performative nature and are linked to the networked environment of the Internet. They exemplify a brand-new season of New Media Art, in which the electromagnetic armamentarium of satellite positioning systems and mobile devices takes on a tactical dimension of confrontation with the equally technological governmental-military strategies of border surveillance and identity control.

Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Media Business in Bulgaria – Short-term and Long-term Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Postagian ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
New Media ◽  
Negative Trend ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Points Of View

The global COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of life, including advertising and the media business. Brands have reduced their advertising budgets. Some media, such as television and the Internet, have increased their audiences, while others, such as print and out-of-home media, have experienced a negative trend. Adapting media content and flexibility to advertisers is the key to the survival of traditional media. New media platforms attract a significant audience and have a chance for sustainable development. The short-term and long-term perspectives for the media can be analyzed from different points of view. The dynamics of this process is obvious and the media business needs to be more flexible than ever before.

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.

scholarly journals From Opinion to Method: Film Criticism beyond Communicative Capitalism

UNITAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-57
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Deyto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Communicative Capitalism

In the light of Barthes’s failed assassination of the author, this essay will tread on the plane of film criticism’s practices of resuscitation of the author. Looking at the current phenomenon of the explosion of quantification in social media space, this essay considers the way communicative capitalism and neoliberal psychopolitics regulate points of view, analyses, and criticism in the internet, and funnel them into a single unit, which is in the form of opinion. This essay will look into three reviews of Citizen Jake (2018) which, as will be argued, often function in double: not only as reviews, but also as consumer guides, which come from the individual opinion of a privileged member of the audience, the reviewer. As a recommendation to resist these reductions, it is suggested that the film critic must practice a self-conscious theorization by looking at the social practices governing the production of the film, the subject of criticism. Dialectically, this will also resolve the failed modernist projects of defacing the author, defacing capitalist subjectivities, toward a materialist conception of film.

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