Digital Labor Scholz, Trebor
2013, 20121012, 2012, 2012-10-12, 20130101
eBook
Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently ...create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates-leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users' interests and habits.
This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet. It claims that the divide between leisure time and work has vanished so that every aspect of life drives the digital economy. The book reveals the anatomy of playbor (play/labor), the lure of exploitation and the potential for empowerment. Ultimately, the 14 thought-provoking chapters in this volume ask how users can politicize their troubled complicity, create public alternatives to the centralized social web, and thrive online.
Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Ayhan Aytes, Michel Bauwens, Jonathan Beller, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Abigail De Kosnik, Julian Dibbell, Christian Fuchs, Lisa Nakamura, Andrew Ross, Ned Rossiter, Trebor Scholz, Tizania Terranova, McKenzie Wark, and Soenke Zehle
Sólo tiene mayor presencia El Sur en los locales de la periferia, aunque en los del centro también se exhibe El Guerrero, que pertenece a la familia Salgado1. No aparece ya el Novedades Acapulco, el ...que fuera de mayor circulación en la ciudad, que no existe ni de manera impresa ni digital, como sí resiste El Sol de Acapulco en su versión en línea. Los procedimientos para la divulgación y el acceso a la información entre las redes sociodigitales y los medios de comunicación tradicionales son distintos; esas diferencias son las que distinguen el tipo de noticias (falsas o verdaderas) que adquieren los consumidores y que, por tanto, influirán en la percepción de la realidad que tengan las audiencias. Van Dijck (2016: 19) refiere que los seguidores en las redes sociales son el número de personas que siguen, le dan me gusta y comparten los post o imágenes de un influencer, quien a su vez, entre más contactos tenga, más valor tendrá, porque con ello demuestra su popularidad. De acuerdo con la autora, la cantidad de "me gusta"5 que recibe una imagen o comentario no es una virtud atribuida de manera consciente, sino el resultado de un cálculo algorítmico6 derivado de la cantidad de clicks que se le dan a ciertas ideas o personas relacionadas con el tipo de contenido que comparten o publican; esto supone la evaluación cuantitativa. Surgieron las empresas consultoras, creadores de contenido, también llamados "granjas de bots o trolls", las cuales tienen -refiere Fregoso (2018)- entre sus funciones la de generar estrategias de información o desinformación creando contenidos y convirtiéndolos en trending topics; y, asimismo, se relacionan con influencers. La importancia del control de la información se debe a su capacidad de generar opinión pública, con el interés de persuadir o disuadir el apoyo a ciertas decisiones que los gobiernos toman o políticas que impulsan. En la mayor parte de las sociedades industrializadas, el control de la información es un asunto de creciente interés para los gobiernos (1991: 103). Es por ello que en diferentes naciones y en diversos regímenes políticos el control de la información se ha convertido en una función aceptada del gobierno; desde los totalitarios, autoritarios y los democráticos se ha considerado la importancia de la información. En el caso de los países democráticos, el libre acceso a las noticias, tanto en su elaboración y difusión, es un derecho fundamental del individuo.
iPolitics Fox, Richard L; Ramos, Jennifer M
11/2011
eBook
Politicians rely on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to exercise political power. Citizens around the world also use these tools to vent political frustrations, join political groups and organize ...revolutions. Political activists blog to promote candidates, solicit and coordinate financial contributions and provide opportunities for volunteers. iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena. Among other things, contributors to this volume analyze whether the public's political knowledge has increased or decreased in the new media era, the role television still plays in the information universe, the effect bloggers have had on the debate and outcome of healthcare reform, and the manner in which political leaders should navigate the new media environment. While the majority of contributors examine new media and politics in the United States, the volume also provides a unique comparative perspective on this relationship using cases from abroad.
Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and ...loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in the real world? Is online sex still cheating on your partner? Why do people tell complete strangers their most intimate secrets? What are the rules of engagement? Will online affairs change the monogamous nature of romantic relationships? These are just some of the questions Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev, distinguished writer and academic, addresses in this 2004 book, a full-length study of love online. Accessible, shocking, entertaining, enlightening, this book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.
The above article, published online on 10 March 2017 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) as an Accepted Article, has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor‐in‐Chief John ...Ioannidis and Wiley Periodicals, LLC. The withdrawal has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.
•This article presents a literature review on determinants of the digital divide.•Consistent digital divide terminology is missing within the literature.•The majority of determinants identified ...focuses on the second-level digital divide.•Sociodemographic and socioeconomic determinants are studied the most.•More attention should be devoted to the outcomes of Internet use.
Recently, several digital divide scholars suggested that a shift is needed from a focus on binary Internet access (first-level digital divide) and Internet skills and use (second-level digital divide) to a third-level digital divide in which the tangible outcomes of Internet use are highlighted. A plethora of studies have been conducted to identify determinants of digital divides. Unfortunately, there is a lack of consistency in the terminology used. Moreover, terms are often not theoretically grounded. Therefore, we conducted a systematic literature review of digital divide determinants. The results show that the third-level digital divide was underexposed. The primary focus is on Internet use. More importantly, the identified determinants show that digital divide research is largely limited to sociodemographic and socioeconomic determinants.
A digitális kor technológiai, technikai és szolgáltatásforradalma miatt a digitalizáció megállíthatatlanul áthatja a digitális társadalom egészét. A felhasználók a digitális vívmányoknak köszönhetően ...új online térrel találkoznak, amely rendkívüli lehetőséget biztosít számunkra digitális létük valamennyi interakciójára. Az IoE-, IoT-, smart megoldások, az internet jövőbeni fejlődési szintje, a VR-, AR-, MR-, XR-eszközök új alapokra helyezik a felhasználók szórakozási, munkavégzési, tanulási, kapcsolatteremtési lehetőségeit. E fejlődési irányvonal digitális mérföldkövei egyértelműen a metaverzum irányába vezetnek a digitális szupersztrádán, aminek keretében nem csatlakozni fogunk ehhez az utópisztikus térhez, hanem digitális kivetülésünk eredményeképpen integráns része leszünk annak, új értelmet adva a jövő infokommunikációs trendjeinek.
An important new BPS Textbook in Psychology exploring the interactions between individuals, societies, and digital technologies
Outlines key theories and empirical research within cyberpsychology and ...provides critical assessments of this rapidly changing field
Identifies areas in need of further research and ways to use digital technologies as a research tool
Covers topics such as online identity, online relationships and dating, pornography, children s use of the internet, cyberbullying, online games and gambling, and deception and online crime
Engaging and accessible for students at the undergraduate and graduate level with real life examples, activities, and discussion questions
LOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to ...make and share these images, and how do they relate to other online social practices?
The Internet is for Cats examines how animal images are employed to create a lighter, more playful mood, uniting users within online spaces that can otherwise easily become fractious and toxic. Placing today’s pet videos, photos, and memes within a longer history of mediated animal images, communication scholar Jessica Maddox also considers the factors that make them unique. She explores the roles that animals play within online economies of cuteness and attention, as well as the ways that animal memes and videos respond to common experiences of life under neoliberalism.
Conducting a rich digital ethnography, Maddox combines observations and textual analysis with extensive interviews of the people who create, post and share animal media, including TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous, activists tweeting about wildlife conservation, and Redditors upvoting every cute cat photo. The Internet is for Cats will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online.
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