Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies, Christian Fuchs

Автор: Greg Elmer, Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden
Название: Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data
ISBN: 1501306510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501306518
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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There has been a data rush in the past decade brought about by online communication and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, among others), which promises a new age of digital enlightenment. But social data is compromised: it is being seized by specific economic interests, it leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between research and the public good, and it fosters new forms of control and surveillance.

Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data explores how we perform critical research within a compromised social data framework. The expert, international lineup of contributors explores the limits and challenges of social data research in order to invent and develop new modes of doing public research. At its core, this collection argues that we are witnessing a fundamental reshaping of the social through social data mining.

Автор: John Hartley, Jason Potts
Название: Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation
ISBN: 1474279236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474279239
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to be break new ground in social scientific scholarship.

Автор: Lamoureux, Edward Lee
Название: Privacy, Surveillance, and the New Media You
ISBN: 1433124947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433124945
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Very little in the American way of life functions adequately under surveillance. Democracy itself may be at mortal risk due to the loss of privacy and the increase in surveillance.

Examining challenges in a wide range of contexts, this book investigates and critically examines our systems of data management, including the ways that data are collected, exchanged, analyzed, and re-purposed.

The volume calls for re-establishing personal privacy as a societal norm and priority, requiring action on the part of everyone at personal, societal, business, and governmental levels. Because new media products and services are professionally designed and implemented to be frictionless and highly rewarding, change is difficult and solutions are not easy. This volume provides insight into challenges and recommended solutions.

Автор: Kevin McDonald, Daniel Smith-Rowsey
Название: The Netflix Effect: Technology and Entertainment in the 21st Century
ISBN: 1501340182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501340185
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a successful business model, and in the process it changed how consumers access film and television. It is now one of the leading providers of digitally delivered media content and is continually expanding access across a host of platforms and mobile devices. Despite its transformative role, however, Netflix has drawn very little critical attention-far less than competitors such as YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Comcast, and HBO.

This collection addresses this gap, as the essays are designed to critically explore the breadth and diversity of Netflix's effect from a variety of different scholarly perspectives, a necessary approach considering the hybrid nature of Netflix, its inextricable links to new models of media production, distribution, viewer engagement and consumer behavior, its relationship to existing media conglomerates and consumer electronics, its capabilities as a web-based service provider and data network, and its reliance on a broader technological infrastructure.

Автор: Settle Jaime E.
Название: Frenemies
ISBN: 1108472532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108472531
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Using Facebook makes Americans psychologically polarized: negatively judging and stereotyping those people with whom they disagree about politics. The book is for graduates in political science, sociology, social psychology, and mass communication, as well as Americans who want to understand why they are repelled by politics today.

Автор: Champion
Название: Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage
ISBN: 1472422902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472422903
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book explains how designing, playing and modifying computer games, and understanding the theory behind them, can strengthen the area of digital humanities. This book aims to help digital humanities scholars understand both the issues and also advantages of game design, as well as encouraging them to extend the field of computer game studies, particularly in their teaching and research in the field of virtual heritage. By looking at re-occurring issues in the design, playtesting and interface of serious games and game-based learning for cultural heritage and interactive history, this book highlights the importance of visualisation and self-learning in game studies and how this can intersect with digital humanities. It also asks whether such theoretical concepts can be applied to practical learning situations. It will be of particular interest to those who wish to investigate how games and virtual environments can be used in teaching and research to critique issues and topics in the humanities, particularly in virtual heritage and interactive history.

Автор: Eleanor Blair, Yolanda Medina
Название: The Social Foundations Reader: Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century
ISBN: 1433129426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433129421
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a generic and typically conservative perspective on schools and classrooms and do little to encourage students to consider the important roles of critical theory and social justice in the creation of school environments that are responsive to issues of equity and diversity. This book provides a different lens through which students can view what happens in twenty-first-century schools while also considering the perspectives of multiple constituencies: parents, teachers, students and communities. The reader of this text is exposed to a wide range of scholarship in the foundations of education; essays range from the more traditional work of John Dewey to the controversial ideas of Henry Giroux. Contested topics associated with teaching, learning and leading in contemporary public schools are considered within a context where grappling with the answers to fundamental questions that will ultimately guide meaningful school reform is an essential part of becoming an educator. Each of the five sections in the book is accompanied by an introduction and summary/reflection questions to both guide reading and challenge students to think critically about how to synthesize and apply the ideas being presented.

Автор: Des Freedman
Название: The Contradictions of Media Power
ISBN: 1849660697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849660693
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Media Power is a crucial, often taken for granted, concept. We assume that the media are `powerful` and that `power` is problematic. This book defines media power by looking at the key contexts in which power is negotiated -economically, politically and technologically -offering an understanding of the power of media in today`s complex environment.

Автор: Des Freedman
Название: The Contradictions of Media Power
ISBN: 1849660735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849660730
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Media Power is a crucial, often taken for granted, concept. We assume that the media are `powerful` and that `power` is problematic. This book defines media power by looking at the key contexts in which power is negotiated -economically, politically and technologically -offering an understanding of the power of media in today`s complex environment.

Название: Current Research on Information Technologies and Society
ISBN: 1138806617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138806610
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book presents the latest in research on communication and information technologies, including chapters demonstrating the maturation of work on measurement, investigating user behaviour, and delving into the new terrain of theorizing social media use. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.