A CYBERCULTURE STUDY: K-POP AND THE NEW MEDIA - BTS AND TWITTER

This paper intends to describe, analyze, and reflect on the presence of K-Pop in the cybernetic environment, as a cultural and artistic manifestation of the XXI century, as well as to study and evaluate the participation of the band BTS (and its fan community) in the social network Twitter, looking for an understanding of its identity and contribution to the cyberculture universe. The importance of “Korean Pop” for the global music industry is, in present times, an undeniable fact, because of the success of several artists and groups of Korean heritage and/or managed by labels from South Korea that have been occupying the top places in charts previously dominated by Anglo-Saxon performers. The band Bangtan Sonyeondan, known worldwide as BTS, formed by Big Hit Entertainment in 2010, is pointed by the critics and specialists as one of the most successful and mediatic groups of the last years. The comparisons between the Beatlemania from the 60s and the behaviour of its fan base (self-proclaimed Army) are quite common. In this context, we intend to study this cultural phenomenon as a new form of culture and interaction between artists and admirers, using social media and new socialization techniques created and adapted to cyberspace. Article visualizations

Smart City: Concepts and two Relevant Components

In the last 30 years, the Smart City (SC) definitions have changed, they expressed different meanings by different people, but still no universally accepted definition, yet. The paper aims to summarize the existing relevant definitions to and propose a concept for characterizing the smartness of a city through intelligent planning and monitoring, guided by actionable information that underpins computer-assisted decisions and institutional digital transformation. As a practical approach, the SC concept is promoted by two components namely: spatial urban territorial planning and cultural heritage via virtual exhibitions. The article highlights the schematic diagram of cross-sectoral interactions between different stakeholders grouped by roles, and the expected impact for these interactions, a proposed functional system architecture for cultural heritage digital transformation and concrete steps for virtual exhibitions implementation

Digital Science: Electronic Association and Groupware in Facilitating Third Sector Research

In thinking about the application of computers and the internet technology to problems of association, collaboration and civil society we need to get beyond the current state of mimicking existing social processes and discover new ways to extend and enhance those social processes

Sobre la aplicación de modelos del espacio semántico de la música en el análisis integrador de obras musicales y educación musical con tecnologías informáticas musicales

In the second half of the 20th century, many music researchers demonstrated a steady interest in music categories as the space and time, whose fundamental nature and unifying (integrating) potential are obvious. However, despite the undoubted contribution to the consolidation of the findings, there was a need for further improvement in music studies, both regarding the content and the logical (including mathematical) research apparatus. This article considers these aspects of the comprehensive model of the semantic space of music in modern research theory and practice and its impact on the system of contemporary musical education.  En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, gran número de investigadores en el campo de la música demostraron un interés constante en categorías musicales como el espacio y el tiempo, cuya naturaleza fundamental y potencial unificador (integrador) son obvios. Sin embargo, a pesar de la indudable contribución a la consolidación de las conclusiones, era necesario seguir mejorando los estudios sobre música, tanto en lo que respecta al contenido como al aparato de investigación lógico (incluidas las matemáticas). En el artículo se examinan estos aspectos del modelo integral del espacio semántico de la música en la teoría y la práctica de la investigación moderna y su repercusión en el sistema de educación musical contemporánea

A Promethean Philosophy of External Technologies, Empiricism, & the Concept: Second-Order Cybernetics, Deep Learning, and Predictive Processing

Beginning with a survey of the shortcoming of theories of organology/media-as-externalization of mind/body—a philosophical-anthropological tradition that stretches from Plato through Ernst Kapp and finds its contemporary proponent in Bernard Stiegler—I propose that the phenomenological treatment of media as an outpouching and extension of mind qua intentionality is not sufficient to counter the ̳black-box‘ mystification of today‘s deep learning‘s algorithms. Focusing on a close study of Simondon‘s On the Existence of Technical Objectsand Individuation, I argue that the process-philosophical work of Gilbert Simondon, with its critique of Norbert Wiener‘s first-order cybernetics, offers a precursor to the conception of second-order cybernetics (as endorsed byFrancisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, and Ricardo B. Uribe) and, specifically, its autopoietic treatment of information. It has been argued by those such as Frank Pasquale that neuro-inferential deep learning systems premised on predictive patterning, suchas AlphaGo Zero, have a veiled logic and, thus, are ̳black boxes‘. In detailing a philosophical-historical approach to demystify predictive patterning/processing and the logic of such deep learning algorithms, this paper attempts to shine a light on such systems and their inner workingsàla Simondon

Connected and disconnected: ICTs, peacebuilding and aesthetic practices of peripheral communities in Colombia

This thesis analyzes how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have been introduced in rural regions of Colombia for peacebuilding purposes and strengthening democracy, and how these have had an impact on the aesthetic practices of local communities. This research discusses theories about the relationship between technology and society, and it provides a critical perspective from the idea that technology solves social problems. Case studies of ICTs projects from the Soviet Union, Estonia, France, Finland, Chile and Paraguay are introduced and examined, to give an account of how similar processes took place in different contexts. Two case studies from Colombia are analyzed (Vive Digital and Linternet), and suggestions that can improve future projects are shared.Master's Thesis in Digital CultureMAHF-DIKULDIKULT35

Creating Virtual Exhibitions for Educational and Cultural Development

The paper presents different tools and mechanisms to implement a virtual exhibition in different cultural areas, such as museums and libraries. Quality characteristics of virtual exhibitions are identified and described. The possibility to create native mobile applications for virtual exhibitions presentation is analyzed. The functional flow of creating a virtual exhibition is presented and discussed. The Seals - History Treasure exhibition is presented and significant historical documents are revealed

The Nostalgia of Art Education: Back to the Future, Part 4

To write the impossible, which is impossible to write, requires an excessive gesture

Anthropological dimensions of virtualization

Virtualization is an ongoing process that is transforming daily activities and interactions. Such transformations will be reflected in irreversible changes in the organization and functioning of societies (socio-historical changes). Virtualization is built by reconstructing information and communication functions that set us apart as human beings and that are specific to our societies. This text deals with the performance of these basic functions when the world is virtualized. The possible scenarios of a virtualized future are diverse and sometimes opposed. They will depend on the social uses made of virtualization for the performance of such basic functions. Such uses will be guided by the plans of the mediators that eventually prevail in the virtualization process. In this work, such social uses and their plans to date are identified and the foreseeable effects in the future are analyzed. From this anthropological and socio-historical view, the practice and teaching of communication are examined, as a mediating instance of virtualization; and virtualization as a form of social production of communication. The existing social applications of the new benefits provided by virtualization, and those that can be envisaged, relate to the applications and functions of scientific and technological innovations that are typical of monopolistic and globalized social formations. For these analyses, theory and methodologies that are published in previous works are developed and applied. In the notes I include the links to some of these works that are accessible and open on the internet. But these developments are based on empirical research that has been developed for over five years(1), which originates the data that support what is told herein. (1R&D Research: Los usos del tiempo relacionados con la virtualización. State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence. Reference CSO2015-63983-P. Principal Investigators Olivia Velarde Hermida and Manuel Martín Serrano. Development: from 01/01/2016 to 12/31/2020. It includes a representative survey of the universe of internet users in Spain, applied to 2801 people