scholarly journals Media Innovations, User Innovations, Societal Innovations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Bruns
Keyword(s):  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Practices

As the Journal of Media Innovations comes into existence, this article reflects on the first and most obvious question: just what do we mean by “media innovations”? Drawing on the examples of a range of recent innovations in media technologies and practices, initiated by a variety of media audiences, users, professionals, and providers, it explores the interplay between the different drivers of innovation and the effects of such innovation on the complex frameworks of contemporary society and the media ecology which supports it. In doing so, this article makes a number of key observations: first, it notes that media innovation is an innovation in media practices at least as much as in media technologies, and that changes to the practices of media both reflect and promote societal changes as well – media innovations are never just media technology innovations. Second, it shows that the continuing mediatisation of society, and the shift towards a more widespread participation of ordinary users as active content creators and media innovators, make it all the more important to investigate in detail these interlinked, incremental, everyday processes of media and societal change – media innovations are almost always also user innovations. Finally, it suggests that a full understanding of these processes as they unfold across diverse interleaved media spaces and complex societal structures necessarily requires a holistic perspective on media innovations, which considers the contemporary media ecology as a crucial constitutive element of societal structures and seeks to trace the repercussions of innovations across both media and society – media innovations are inextricably interlinked with societal innovations (even if, at times, they may not be considered to be improvements to the status quo).

Literal Media Ecology: Crisis in the Conditions of Production

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 486-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett R. Caraway
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Matter Energy

This article outlines a socio-political theory appropriate for the study of the ecological repercussions of contemporary media technologies. More specifically, this approach provides a means of assessing the material impacts of media technologies and the representations of capitalist ecological crises. This approach builds on the work of ecological economists, ecosocialist scholars, and Marx’s writings on the conditions of production to argue that capitalism necessarily results in ecological destabilization. Taking Apple’s 2016 Environmental Responsibility Report as a case study, the article uses the theory to analyze Apple’s responses to ecological crises. The article asserts that Apple’s reactions are emblematic of the capitalist compulsion for increasing rates of productivity. However, unless the matter/energy savings achieved through higher rates of productivity surpass the overall increase in the flow of matter/energy in production, ecological crises will continue. Ultimately, capital accumulation ensures continued ecological destabilization.

scholarly journals Medieøkologien i SKAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Ruth Grüters ◽  
Knut Ove Eliassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

AbstractTo understand the success of SKAM, the series’ innovative use of “social media” must be taken into consideration. The article follows two lines of argument, one diachronic, the other synchronic. The concept of remediation allows for a historical perspective that places the series in a longer tradition of “real time”-fictions and media practices that span from the epistolary novels of the 18th century by way of radio theatre and television serials to the new media of the 21st century. Framing the series within the current media ecology (marked by the connectivity logic of “social media”), the authors analyze how the choice of the blog as the drama’s media platform has formed the ways the series succeeded in affecting and mobilizing its audience. Given the long tradition of strong pedagogical premises in the teenager serials of publicly financed Norwegian television, the authors note the absence of any explicit media critical perspectives or didacticism. Nevertheless, the claim is that the media-practices of the series, as well as the actions and discourses of its followers (blogposts, facebook-groups, etc.), generate new insights and knowledge with regards to the series’ form, content, and practices.

Mad Practices and Mobilities Bringing Voices to Digital Ethnography

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Cherry Baylosis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract There is a claim that digital media technologies can give voice to the voiceless (Alper 2017). As Couldry (2008) points out it is now commonplace for people - who have never done so before - to tell, share and exchange stories within, and through digital media. Additionally, the affordances of mobile media technologies allow people to speak, virtually anytime and anywhere, while the new internet based media sees that these processes converge to allow stories, information, ideas and discourses to circulate through communicative spaces, and into the daily lives of people (Sheller/Urry 2006). The purpose of this paper is to discuss a methodological framework that can be used to examine the extent that digital media practices can enable voice. My focus is on people ascribed the status of mental illness - people who have had an enduring history of silencing and oppression (Parr 2008). I propose theories of mobilities, and practice, to critically examine voice in practices related to digital media. In doing this, I advocate for digital ethnographic methods to engage these concepts, and to examine the potential of voice in digital mobile media. Specifically, I outline ethnographic methods involving the use of video (re)enactments of digital practices, and the use of reflective interviews to examine every day routines and movements in and around digital media (Pink 2012). I propose that observing and reflecting on such activities can generate insights into the significance these activities have in giving voice to those who are normally unheard.

Pleasure, Excess and Self-Monitoring: The Media Worlds of New Zealand Children

2008 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Lealand ◽  
Ruth Zanker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
The North ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Cautionary Tales ◽  
North And South

This report describes the outcomes of extensive research (questionnaires, focus groups, drawings) on the media use of students aged between eight and 13 years (n=860) in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The research replicates earlier child-centred research by the authors, but with a greater emphasis on newer media technology, such as cell phones. The various facets of the research, framed within theoretical explorations, produced detailed and often candid insights into the role played by contemporary media in the lives of New Zealand children with respect to the overt and covert use of technology, shifts in relationships between children and adults. It also generated some interesting cautionary tales.

scholarly journals ОСОБИСТІСНО-ОРІЄНТОВАНА СИСТЕМА ПІДГОТОВКИ ФАХІВЦІВ ТЕХНІЧНОГО ПРОФІЛЮ З ВИКОРИСТАННЯМ МЕДІАТЕХНОЛОГІЙ

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Pavlo V. Savaryn
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Training System ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Main Components

The paper poses a problem of lifelong learning. Brief analysis of paradigms of future specialists training for their professional work is done. There has been described in detail personality-oriented training system as well as done the analysis of recent researches and publications relating to this issue. The model of personality-oriented training system in higher technical educational institution is analyzed and stressed the importance of using a variety of sources of scientific information for each student. There has been exposed and given a brief description of the essence of the “media technology” concept. The important principles for using media technologies in teacher’s educational activity are considered. The basic requirements to didactic software development using media technology as supplement are presented. It is noted the important role of the teacher of higher technical educational institution in implementing the main components of personality-oriented training system using media technologies, as well as revealed the qualities that students of higher technical educational institution should develop.

Transgression in contemporary media culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792096810
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Annette Hill
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rule Breaking ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Film Piracy ◽  
Key Terms

This is the introduction to a special issue on media and transgression, one of early cultural studies’ key terms. It inquires into the uses of transgression as a critical concept to query contemporary media culture which is discussed in six case studies: on political satire, Mukbang, cult drama, the policing of film piracy, media scandals, and online trolls. Transgression points to the energy that fuels the media ecology – from content and content production to audience practices and the policing of content ownership. It is the (conscious) overstepping of moral and legal boundaries, that challenges written and unwritten rules. The frisson of rule breaking and the reward of rule re-establishment (whether by powerful parties or everyday gossip) are transgression’s bookends. Together they support the cyclical rhythm of media culture that maintains not just our interest as viewers but our interests and connectedness as citizens, whether in celebration, outrage or condemnation.

Social Reading? On the Rise of a “Bookish” Reading Culture Online

Poetics Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-172
Author(s):  
Dorothee Birke
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Book Culture

Abstract While the internet is often seen as having destroyed book culture, this article is interested in those areas in our contemporary media environment where book and internet culture actually converge. Focusing on the example of BookTube, the author examines how book culture is “done” on the internet and analyzes the values attached to the media practices involved. In particular, in millennial book culture, social aspects of reading are often emphasized. This trend is usually associated with the new affordances of social media and either assessed positively (e.g., by proponents of the internet as a democratizing force) or negatively (e.g., by detractors of the internet as fostering superficiality). The author argues that such a simplistic binary view can be transcended if one takes a historical perspective, reflecting on how sociality and self-fashioning have been integral aspects of book culture for centuries. At the same time, she shows the extent to which BookTube provides new opportunities to socialize around reading.

Mediating Christianity in Contemporary Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Khek Gee Lim
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
New Media Technologies

This article aims to provide a broad survey of the intimate relations between media and Christianity in contemporary Asia by taking into account two overlapping strands of scholarship, one of technology and society, the other of religion and the media. Particular attention is given to how the invention of new media technologies causes important shifts in the ways people practice their faith and how Christian communities are formed in Asia. With the trend towards media convergence resulting in the blurring of the distinction between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ media and with people's differential access to forms of media in Asia, the article argues that an effort to achieve a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between media and Christianity in Asia has to examine how people's particular social, economic and political locations crucially influence their interpretations of various mediated Christian texts and their experiences of Christianity. Furthermore, the theological positions that Christian communities in Asia have toward diverse forms of media technology and the extent to which new media technologies are integrated into people's daily life shape the ways Christianity is practiced in different parts of Asia and the ways in which the actual contours of Christian religious boundaries are drawn.

scholarly journals Research on outdoor special effect device for night forest park theme park

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-658
Author(s):  
You-Suk Kim Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Technology ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Visual Fatigue ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Special Effect ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Media

Recently, there have been many forest park theme parks for night tours. Various media technologies are installed in these forest park theme parks. A case study was conducted to find out the purpose and use of various media technologies used in forest park theme parks at night. We divided media technology into three major types of forest park theme parks currently in operation at home and abroad. The case was analyzed by dividing the media technology into forms that used special effects for stage performances, forms with interactive technology, and forms of lighting used for the atmosphere of the theme park. The analysis of the cases with three factors has resulted in the pros and cons of the cases in each part. The advantage is that special effects, interactive technology, and theme lighting are pioneering the media market by bringing out a new type of attraction called the Forest Park Theme Park. The first solution to this was to overcome the difficulties caused by outdoor installation in nature. It was a method to maintain temperature, humidity, dust, etc. in factors such as housing of electronic electrical equipment elements and covers of lighting. Second, we found elements that do not fit in nature. Most of the factors that were not aesthetic to the use of content were artificially installed. To compensate for this, elements such as electroplate ng tubes and camouflage control boxes should be applied from the content design and spatial design stages. By optimizing the essential elements for operation and harmonizing with nature, visitors can minimize visual fatigue and maximize aesthetics. The needs and complements of the design of the forest park theme park studied in this paper deal with the areas that need to be improved for users who have come to the night tour. This is meaningful for the development of a more enjoyable and pleasant forest park theme park.

Phenomenological Ethics of Contemporary Media Theories

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Dragan Prole ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

This article discusses fundamental contradictions regarding the social role of the new media. Avantgarde identifies the emergence of the new media with the possibilities of liberating the man and achieving true individuality, while dystopia qualifies it as the suffocation of individuality, as ballast that levels out and averages a man, as a threat to human freedom. The media technology is for the avant-garde the embodiment of the enriched self and expanded capacities of selfhood, while for dystopia, the media technology is directed against selfhood, since its effects start and end with the creation of alienation, with the distortion of selfhood directed against the fundamental attributes of humanity. On the contrary, for the avant-garde, the breach of media background awareness of the artistic expression has marked the definite parting with the age of alienated artistic practice. According to their most profound beliefs, staggering in the chains of figurative and narrative expressions, art has always served a different purpose, religion, pedagogy, politics, and ideology. Hence, the turn towards the demands and logic of the self-serving media marked the rise from the state of alienation to the state of true achievement, to the emancipation of artists and the art.

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