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a place to discuss the internet and the creation, distribution, and impact of new media
📚 'Understanding Data, Culture and Society' is out this December! Dive into the world of datafication and explore how data shapes every aspect of our lives.
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/understanding-data-culture-and-society/book262678
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/understanding-data-culture-and-society/book262678
publication of the book "Twitch", in Polity's
"Digital Media and Society" series. It's the most up-to-date academic
overview of Twitch out at the moment, and the first ever summation of an
entire decade of Twitch research (a sentence that is alarming to write,
since it feels like only yesterday I thought "you know what, this whole
game streaming thing looks interesting").
You can check it out here:
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=twitch--9781509558582
"Digital Media and Society" series. It's the most up-to-date academic
overview of Twitch out at the moment, and the first ever summation of an
entire decade of Twitch research (a sentence that is alarming to write,
since it feels like only yesterday I thought "you know what, this whole
game streaming thing looks interesting").
You can check it out here:
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=twitch--9781509558582
The special issue, “The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and
Misogyny,” has just been published in /Global Storytelling: Journal of
Digital and Moving Images/ by Michigan Publishing.
This issue aims to counterbalance the often US- or UK-centric discourse of post-feminism in social media by offering both theoretical perspectives and case studies that explore various facets and socio-political contexts of contemporary digital feminism and misogyny from a global perspective.
The issue is available as open access on the journal’s website:
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/issue/300/info/
Misogyny,” has just been published in /Global Storytelling: Journal of
Digital and Moving Images/ by Michigan Publishing.
This issue aims to counterbalance the often US- or UK-centric discourse of post-feminism in social media by offering both theoretical perspectives and case studies that explore various facets and socio-political contexts of contemporary digital feminism and misogyny from a global perspective.
The issue is available as open access on the journal’s website:
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/issue/300/info/
YouTube's latest report highlights a trend Henry Jenkins identified in the '90s: participatory culture is reshaping pop culture. Fans aren't just consuming content; they're creating and driving it. Jenkins' vision of active, engaged audiences is now mainstream, with YouTube as the hub for collective cultural experiences
https://www.youtube.com/trends/report/2024-year-on-youtube/?utm_source=tldrmarketing
https://13188848dl18.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/week-4-rec-reading.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/trends/report/2024-year-on-youtube/?utm_source=tldrmarketing
https://13188848dl18.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/week-4-rec-reading.pdf
a survey of TikTok users exploring the impact of parasocial relationships on trust in political information received from social media influencers on TikTok.
The survey can be found here : https://dom.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ddsJW8GC0aOB9r0
The survey can be found here : https://dom.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ddsJW8GC0aOB9r0
Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics
of digital technologies
Elisabetta Ferrari
_www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/
Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and
organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms
are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. /Appropriate,
Negotiate, Challenge/ investigates the relationship between activism and
technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s
role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of
digital technologies.
of digital technologies
Elisabetta Ferrari
_www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/
Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and
organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms
are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. /Appropriate,
Negotiate, Challenge/ investigates the relationship between activism and
technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s
role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of
digital technologies.
Explaining the difference in methodology 🕺
A publication that might be hopefully of interest to many: the book "Quantum Ecology: Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies", co-authored by Dr Stefano Calzati (TU Delft) and Derrick de Kerckhove (Polytechnic University of Milan), is released open access by MIT Press.
Here the synopsis and the link for download: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5872/Quantum-EcologyWhy-and-How-New-Information
Here the synopsis and the link for download: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5872/Quantum-EcologyWhy-and-How-New-Information
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it.
https://aksioma.org/unrealdata-book
https://aksioma.org/unrealdata-book
📚 New book explores the multiverse beyond sci-fi tropes! International scholars examine how 'other worlds' collide & reshape our understanding of time, identity & culture. A fresh take on how fictional universes influence contemporary storytelling.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Multiverse-as-Theory-in-Postmodern-Speculative-Fictional-Narratives/CabreraTorrecilla-SaezdeAdana/p/book/9781032699752
https://www.routledge.com/The-Multiverse-as-Theory-in-Postmodern-Speculative-Fictional-Narratives/CabreraTorrecilla-SaezdeAdana/p/book/9781032699752
The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection, available open access!
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnection
The contributions of this book demonstrate that we are currently in a historical moment of digital backlash and explore how this backlash is expressed across different domains of society.
Individuals, workplaces, and institutions debate how to balance the use of digital devices, yet complete disconnection is rarely an option. This book delves into the reactions to intense digitalisation and the dilemmas faced by those who push back.
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnection
The contributions of this book demonstrate that we are currently in a historical moment of digital backlash and explore how this backlash is expressed across different domains of society.
Individuals, workplaces, and institutions debate how to balance the use of digital devices, yet complete disconnection is rarely an option. This book delves into the reactions to intense digitalisation and the dilemmas faced by those who push back.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Internet 🎂
The Internet as an Infrastructure - Chaired by Sir David Payne, Professor of Photonics, University of Southampton
The Internet as a Facilitator of Opportunity - Chaired by Mei Lin Fung, Chair and Co-founder of People-Centred Internet
The Internet and Society - Chaired by Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton, Trustee of the Web Science Institute, and Director of the Web Science Trust
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/07/celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-internet/
The Internet as an Infrastructure - Chaired by Sir David Payne, Professor of Photonics, University of Southampton
The Internet as a Facilitator of Opportunity - Chaired by Mei Lin Fung, Chair and Co-founder of People-Centred Internet
The Internet and Society - Chaired by Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton, Trustee of the Web Science Institute, and Director of the Web Science Trust
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/07/celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-internet/
Media Studies issue 1/2024 has been published.
FULL ISSUE is available as PDF at:
https://medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/06/medialni_studia_1_2024_issue.pdf
FULL ISSUE is available as PDF at:
https://medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/06/medialni_studia_1_2024_issue.pdf
This talk explores the Internet's history, technology, impact, and potential challenges for its future revolution.
https://archive.org/details/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet
https://archive.org/details/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet
The IERLab is comprised of an interdisciplinary and international group of social scientists who study the socio-cultural impact of Influencers.
They have a podcast on K-Pop Fan, Climate Activism, Mukbang Influencers
https://ierlab.com/media/ierlab-podcasts/
They have a podcast on K-Pop Fan, Climate Activism, Mukbang Influencers
https://ierlab.com/media/ierlab-podcasts/
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age Thomas S Mullaney https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047517/the-chinese-computer/
AI generated content infiltrates news, reviews, & hoaxes, raising the importance of media literacy. How can we equip users with the skills to spot falsehoods amidst the digital noise?
Exploring Computer Mediated Communication: from media richness to social information processing, it encompasses constraints, interactions, and implications for individuals, groups, and communities. From Proteus effects to actor-networks.
https://titles.cognella.com/computer-mediated-communication-9798823307987
https://titles.cognella.com/computer-mediated-communication-9798823307987
What are some niches/interests you identify with that you wish had their own media company/community?
Can a horror video turn children into murderers? Can a video game cause
reckless driving? What evidence is there (if any!) behind debates like these? What are the political, economic, social or ideological forces propelling and sustaining them?
https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=83eab745de7d49f5
reckless driving? What evidence is there (if any!) behind debates like these? What are the political, economic, social or ideological forces propelling and sustaining them?
https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=83eab745de7d49f5
From Andrew McLuhan:
it is taboo to ask “should we be building this?,” and yet i will ask it anyway https://x.com/blader/status/1758334235889578392?s=46&t=u8pItK-nu0TdtOG8jcLETA