Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Naïma Hachad
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Referential Practices

The introduction discusses the heterogeneity of Moroccan and Moroccan-born women’s self-referential practices and identifies the resources on which they draw, situating the diverse contexts in/from which they emerge. Women’s auto/biographies are products of the historical, sociocultural, and geopolitical contexts they mobilize and negotiate. These contexts dictate not only the content, but also the choice of the medium –writing, photography, body tattoos, embroidery, orality, and digital media. The introduction exposes these dynamics by unveiling the different media, styles, and languages of women’s auto/biographies in context. In doing so, the introductory chapter establishes the transdisciplinarity of my project as well as the critical routes I use to approach the topic including postcolonial and postmodern theories, transnational feminism, autobiography, and testimony.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Anne Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Temporal Processing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Delayed Gratification ◽  
New Era ◽  
Contemporary German Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role of technology in people's relationship with time. Since the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990, digital technologies have revolutionized the relationship between individuals, their worlds, and their temporal horizons. The ever-tighter enmeshing of human worlds with digital media alters the very notion of experience. Indeed, the ontological difference between lived and virtual experience is diminishing as technology transmutes dispositions, habits, and perceptions. Because the information age promotes instant access, it also erodes the expectation of temporal processing. The new era of the “digital now” challenges not only established notions of delayed gratification but also the very idea of time as a multidimensional concept that integrates past, present, and future into human experience. This book therefore investigates temporal anxieties from a broad cultural-historical perspective that illuminates alternative temporal trajectories and experiences. It does this by analyzing how contemporary German literature, film, and photography stage, perform, and bring forth other kinds of time.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Matt Carlson ◽  
Sue Robinson ◽  
Seth C. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
Media Channels

This introductory chapter begins by calling for a decentering of journalism in favor of a broader view of the complex political communication environment that has accompanied the proliferation of digital media channels. In this environment, journalism is engaged with other social actors in a struggle for the right to provide truthful accounts. At issue is the very relevance of journalism as an epistemic authority. These shifts in the media culture are not a passing moment but rather a confluence of enduring factors that need to be confronted. This informational context can be understood by examining how anti-institutional movements, such as populism, rely on denigrating journalism. This chapter argues that journalism theory and practice benefit from this broader contextual view. It ends by providing an outline of the book.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Manley
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Transnational Feminism ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
The Way

The introductory chapter presents the two main arguments of the study. First, as a result of both the Trujillo and Balaguer regimes’ efforts to uphold the Dominican Republic’s international reputation as stable and project an image of a progressive and progressing nation, women found and expanded spaces of global and transnational activism that advanced basic political rights and paved the way for the late 20th century feminist movement. Second, while the paternal constructs of rule upheld by Trujillo and Balaguer did advance women’s roles in certain arenas of society and politics, they also paradoxically enforced a superstructure that maintained a traditional understanding of women’s innate abilities as maternal public figures. It elaborates on the historiographies of Dominican women’s history, transnational feminism, and dictatorship, and lays out the structure of the subsequent chapters.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taina Bucher
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Media And Communication

Algorithms and software are starting to catch the interest of social scientists and humanities scholars, having become somewhat of a buzzword in media and communication studies during the past years. Yet we are only at the beginning of understanding how algorithms and computation more broadly are affecting social life and the production and dissemination of knowledge as we know it. The introductory chapter sketches the contours of an algorithmic media landscape as it is currently unfolding by focusing on the ways in which Facebook friendships are programmatically organized and shaped through algorithmic systems. The chapter introduces the concept of “programmed sociality” to draw attention to software and computational infrastructure as conditions of possibility for sociality in digital media.

Disruptions and Value in the Interactive Digital Media Marketplace

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Omar El-Sawy ◽  
Francis Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Business Modeling

This introductory chapter explains business modeling in the context of interactive digital products and services. The ADVISOR framework is presented as a useful means of articulating value. A review of other approaches suggests that business modeling is all about determining value and the ADVISOR framework is a valid one.

Digital media, peer relations, and children and young people's learning

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo Sims ◽  
Rachel Cody Pfister ◽  
Michael Cole ◽  
Robert Lecusay ◽  
Ivan Rosero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Peer Relations
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