scholarly journals Communication Technologies and the History of the Spectacle

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Morelock ◽  
Felipe Ziotti Narita
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The chapter presents a historical account and a first theoretical approach on the rise of the society of the selfie. Our historical exposition concerns the global spread of the material and cultural developments of capitalist society, including the recent rise of the digital and Web 2.0. In Wallerstein’s concept of ‘geoculture’, the world-system is not just economic; the culture of modern capitalism is extended into regions when and where the global market extends. Using this framework, in chapter 1 we focus on the place of communication technologies in the global economic and cultural changes from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Describing these changes, we explore Guy Debord’s theory of ‘the spectacle.’ In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the rise of information technologies and the World Wide Web dovetailed with neoliberalism and spectacular capitalism, amplifying a cultural trend already well under way: the movement away from substance and depth, toward images, surfaces, and superficial appearances. We argue that in the age of social media, much interpersonal communication is mediated and fragmented through social media via likes, comments, tweets, and so on. Users construct alternate, ‘spectacular’ versions of themselves that circulate online. The ‘selfie’ is a perfect symbol for this new state of culture.

scholarly journals The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Morelock ◽  
Felipe Ziotti Narita
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
History Of ◽  
Echo Chamber ◽  
Political Differences

This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.

A rare dance

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022199365
Author(s):  
Ilan Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Basketball Player ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Marketing System ◽  
Rare Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Event ◽  
Enormous Success

The enormous success of The Last Dance, the sports documentary on Michael Jordan’s career, and especially his last season, is the result of a rare confluence of factors, each of which is a unique and rare phenomenon in the history of sport. Their combination has already turned the mini-series into a global media event of the kind that is usually reserved for live broadcasts of extraordinary events. A basketball player with unusual personal and professional abilities, supported by a highly polished and well-oiled marketing system; the specific window of time in which his star shone – the late 1990s, when the era of media commercialization and globalization flourished, yet before the emergence of social media and their typical critical discourse; the rise in sports documentaries in recent years; and encasing all of these is the time of the documentary’s broadcast, when sports life across the world ceased due to the coronavirus. The mini-series, which seemingly deals with a single season in the career of a single player in a single sport, is actually so much more. It is a composition reflecting much wider social, sports and media phenomena.

Introduction to information and communication technologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa Gagarina ◽  
Grigoriy Kuznecov ◽  
Evgeniy Portnov ◽  
Anna Doronina
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Multimedia Networks ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Educational ◽  
Network Operating Systems

The textbook examines the main milestones in the history of the development of information technologies, computing and computer technology abroad and in Russia. Special attention is paid to the methodology of scientific research in the field of infocommunications. The current sections of the development of telecommunications technologies in the field of multimedia networks and network operating systems are presented. In order to develop practical skills, a laboratory workshop is given. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For senior students of technical specialties, postgraduates, researchers, teachers of higher educational institutions, students of advanced training institutes.

Why England and not China and India? Water systems and the history of the Industrial Revolution

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terje Tvedt
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Water System ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
System Factor ◽  
Historical Accounts

AbstractGlobal history has centred for a long time on the comparative economic successes and failures of different parts of the world, most often European versus Asian regions. There is general agreement that the balance changed definitively in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when in continental Europe and England a transformation began that revolutionized the power relations of the world and brought an end to the dominance of agrarian civilization. However, there is still widespread debate over why Europe and England industrialized first, rather than Asia. This article will propose an explanation that will shed new light on Europe’s and England’s triumph, by showing that the ‘water system’ factor is a crucial piece missing in existing historical accounts of the Industrial Revolution. It is argued that this great transformation was not only about modernizing elites, investment capital, technological innovation, and unequal trade relations, but that a balanced, inclusive explanation also needs to consider similarities and differences in how countries and regions related to their particular water systems, and in how they could exploit them for transport and the production of power for machines.

scholarly journals Social media in use

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-217
Author(s):  
Visar Rrustemi ◽  
Egzona Hasani ◽  
Gezim Jusufi ◽  
Dušan Mladenović
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Traditional Marketing ◽  
The Right

Information technologies have caused radical changes in many areas, they have also changed marketing activities. Today, marketing activities are carried out in digital environments, facilitating the work of companies and helping consumers around the world. Consumers get the right information and data about products and services much easier and faster, as well as access different forms of entertainment. Therefore, it can be said that the place of traditional marketing today has been replaced by digital marketing. This paper tries to shed some light on how consumers of Western Balkans and specifically in Kosovo, use social media and how those shape their attitudes, based on the uses and gratifications approach. This is the first paper from this region, which analyzes social media, based on the previously mentioned approach. Since research in the region was prohibitive for us, we selected a sample of 200 consumers from Kosovo, active on social media. The findings of this paper serve managers in better attracting online customers through social media.

Technology and the Historian

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Crymble
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

After nearly a decade of scholars trying to define digital work, this book makes the case for a need instead to understand the history of technology’s relationship with historical studies. It does so through a series of case studies that show some of the many ways that technology and historians have come together around the world and over the decades. Often left out of the historiography, the digital age has been transformative for historians, touching on research agendas, approaches to teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and the nature of the archive itself. Bringing together histories and philosophies of the field, with a genre of works including private papers, Web archives, social media, and oral histories, this book lets the reader see the digital traces of the field as it developed. Importantly, it separates issues relevant to historians from activities under the purview of the much broader ‘digital humanities’ movement, in which historians’ voices are often drowned out by louder and more numerous literary scholars. To allow for flexible reading, each chapter tackles the history of a specific key theme, from research, to communication, to teaching. It argues that only by knowing their field’s own past can historians put technology to its best uses in the future.

Megatrends in Engineering and Technology Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Patil ◽  
Henk Eijkman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Engineering And Technology Education ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Practices

Engineers and technologists increasingly have to confront socio-scientific issues and evolving communication technologies. Digital communication technologies, such as social media, are important drivers for growth and for changes in learning and in professions as well as and doing business. In the 21st century, to be a scientifically literate engineer and technologist means also to possess the communicative imagination. Thus, moving toward a future with more fully integrated social media into the world of knowledge and communication practices will be a challenging process of resolving tensions and dilemmas. This chapter presents an overview of current megatrends in communicative imagination and advanced approaches of various communication technologies in engineering and technology education. The chapter also reflects on the transformative nature of social media.

Student Athlete Activism in a Millennial World

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Myron L. Pope ◽  
Darnell Smith ◽  
Shanna Pope
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Student Athlete ◽  
University Administration ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
College Student Athletes

College student athletes are among the most recognized students in their communities, across the country, and in some cases around the world. Their voices hold a significant esteem, and they can impact many societal and political issues. Some have postulated that college student-athletes are hesitant to be a part of these politics, but during the past few years, many have taken stands through social media and through protests on their campuses that have been in opposition to the stances of their coaches, their university's administration, and their teammates. Many, however, challenge the role that student athletes have in these protests. This chapter will explore the history of student athlete activism and its developmental aspects, highlight the more recent instances of such activism, and finally discuss how university administration and others can support and be responsive to the concerns that are expressed by this unique set of students.

Telecommunications Sector and Internet Access in Africa

2008 ◽  
pp. 144-150
Author(s):  
Vanessa Phala
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Future Potential

The “information revolution” has not only transformed the world as we know it, but also its future potential. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with their major technological advances, have affected the lives and lifestyles of people across the globe, as well as the way institutions and organizations do business. However, not all outcomes of the spread of information technologies have been positive. A majority of the world’s population, especially those who live in poverty, have been largely bypassed by this revolution. The gap between them and the rest of the world has expanded precisely as a result of the facilitation capacity of these technologies for those who have access to them (Figueres, 2003). The majority of these people are situated in the African continent and other developing countries.

Digital Divide

2008 ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Liudmila Burtseva ◽  
Svetlana Cojocaru ◽  
Constantin Gaindric ◽  
Galina Magariu ◽  
Tatiana Verlan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Technical Problem ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Short History ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

In this chapter the authors introduce the digital-divide concept to the reader, bring its different definitions, and describe the short history of the problem. The basic figures and facts, which characterize the information and communication technologies’ usage in different countries and regions, are given as well. Also, basic indicators that allow the monitoring of the country’s advancement on the way to bridging the digital divide are stated. The main purpose for the authors was to show that the digital divide is not only (and not as much) a technical problem, but rather a social and political one. Hence, the approaches to this problem decision, both in the world community as a whole and in separate countries, are described.

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