scholarly journals Controlling singularity: The role of online communication for young visual artists’ identity management

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Hansson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Media And Identity

This paper contributes to the literature on art, new media and identity by investigating the role online communication plays for young visual artists’ identity management. Drawing from comprehensive sources on the Internet such as blogs, Web pages, networking sites and digital magazines, as well as interview data from art students at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, this article describes how artists deal with convergent contexts online, while addressing an exclusive public of cultural producers and simultaneously reaching for a broad cultural significance.

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 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.

Communities, Communication, and Online Identities

2014 ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Jäkälä ◽  
Eleni Berki
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Online Identities

Social media and online communities offer increased possibilities for connection, interaction and participation but also new media with tools for self-presentation and identity management. Interacting anonymously or eponymously, having one, none or many identities online expresses richness in online communication. Contentious identities for communication are part of everyday online and offline interaction. The authors examine critically five types of online identity and analyse the differences, similarities, advantages, pitfalls, and disadvantages of using them. Examples illustrate the usage of these identity types, clarify possible misconceptions, and provide the reader with an improved understanding, increasing at the same time the usage awareness and knowledge on their distinctive features.

Communities, Communication, and Online Identities

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Jäkälä ◽  
Eleni Berki
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Online Identities

Social media and online communities offer increased possibilities for connection, interaction and participation but also new media with tools for self-presentation and identity management. Interacting anonymously or eponymously, having one, none or many identities online expresses richness in online communication. Contentious identities for communication are part of everyday online and offline interaction. The authors examine critically five types of online identity and analyse the differences, similarities, advantages, pitfalls, and disadvantages of using them. Examples illustrate the usage of these identity types, clarify possible misconceptions, and provide the reader with an improved understanding, increasing at the same time the usage awareness and knowledge on their distinctive features.

Social and Cultural Significance of Reading in the Information Society

2010 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Tatyana B. Markova
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Functions

The article discusses the social and cultural functions of reading. Philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of reading reveals its transformation into knowledge society. The types of modern reading are analyzed and a new role of libraries in society is showed.

The Role of New Media in Facilitating Entrepreneurship in Tourism - Case Study: Promoting Komodo Island in East Nusa Tenggara

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Dessy Kania
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Foreign Visitor ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
High Inflation ◽  
Tourism Destinations

Tourism is an important component of the Indonesian economy as well as a significant source of the country’s foreign exchange revenues. According to the Center of Data and Information - Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the growth of foreign visitor arrivals to Indonesia has increased rapidly by 9.61 percent since 2010 to the present. One of the most potential tourism destinations is Komodo Island located in East Nusa Tenggara. With the island’s unique qualities, which include the habitat of the Komodo dragons and beautiful and exotic marine life, it is likely to be one of the promising tourism destinations in Indonesia and in the world. In 1986, the island has been declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism continuously promotes many of the country’s natural potential in tourism through various media: printed media, television and especially new media. However, there are challenges for the Indonesian tourism industry in facilitating entrepreneurship skills among the local people in East Nusa Tenggara. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (2011), East Nusa Tenggara is considered as one of the poorest provinces in Indonesia where the economy is lower than the average, with a high inflation of 15%, and unemployment of 30%. This research is needed to explore further the phenomenon behind the above facts, aiming at examining the role of new media in facilitating entrepreneurship in the tourism industry in Komodo Island. The results of this study are expected to provide insights that can help local tourism in East Nusa Tenggara. Keywords: Tourism, Entrepreneurship, New Media

Stories from Ultrasonographic Abyss

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matylda Szewczyk
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Care ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Prenatal Ultrasound ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Medical Imagery ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Cultures

The article presents a reflection on the experience of prenatal ultrasound and on the nature of cultural beings, it creates. It exploits chosen ethnographic and cultural descriptions of prenatal ultrasounds in different cultures, as well as documentary and artistic reflections on medical imagery and new media technologies. It discusses different ways of defining the role of ultrasound in prenatal care and the cultural contexts build around it. Although the prenatal ultrasounds often function in the space of enormous tensions (although they are also supposed to give pleasure), it seems they will accompany us further in the future. It is worthwhile to find some new ways of describing them and to invent new cultural practices to deal with them.

An Author as Literature. (Visual) Autofiction of Dorota Masłowska

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Michalak
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Conceptual Art ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
The Creation

Using the promotional meeting of Dorota Masłowska’s book "More than you can eat" (16 April 2015 in the Bar Studio, Warsaw), as a case study, the article examines the role author plays in it and try to show how the author itself can become the literature. As a result of the transformation of cultural practices associated with the new media, the author’s figure has gained much greater visibility which consequently changed its meaning. In the article, Masłowska’s artistic strategy is compared to visual autofiction in conceptual art and interpreted through the role of the performance and visual representations in the creation of the image or author’s brand.

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