Beyond voice: Audience-making and the work and architecture of listening as new media literacies

Considerable attention in communication, media and social science scholarship is focused on voice, which is considered as an important form of social capital and necessary for social equity. Studies have extensively examined access to communication technologies and various forums such as the public sphere, as well as media literacy required to have a voice. Despite continuing concern over a 'digital divide', the emergence of Web 2.0-based 'new media', also referred to as 'social media', is seen as an empowering development contributing to the democratization of voice. However, based on two studies of online public consultation and critical analysis of the literature on voice and listening, this article argues that two important corollaries of voice, as it is commonly conceptualized, are overlooked. To matter, as Nick Couldry says it should, voice needs to have an audience and, second, audiences must listen. While considerable attention is paid by mass media to creating, maintaining and engaging audiences, comparatively little attention is paid to audiences and listening in discussions of new media and social media. In an environment of proliferating channels for speaking coinciding with demassification and 'fragmentation' of audiences, engaging audiences and the work of listening have become problematic and are important media literacies required to make voice matter. © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

An approach towards the reconstruction of regulatory networks

Currently, one of the main issues addressed in the bioinformatics field is understanding the structure and behaviour of complex molecular interaction networks. Since most of the information available belongs to biomedical literature, a large part of this task entails selecting the relevant articles from a large body of papers. However, due to the rapidly increasing number of scientific papers, it is quite difficult to read all the papers that have been published about this subject. In order to accomplish this, this work is focused on developing methods for retrieving information from biological databases, gathering as much information as possible; to create an integrated repository, that is able to store and load this data and also to design a pipeline to allow the reconstruction of regulatory networks through using Biomedical Text Mining techniques.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Metaphoric Recursiveness and Ternary Ontology: Another Look at the Language and Worldview of the Yaminahua

My purpose in this paper is, first, to explore metaphorical recursiveness in Yaminahua, i.e. the latter’s folding of the common binary structure: {(x) things + (y) words} into the threefold scheme: (A) things + (B) external analogies + (C) internal metaphors, as displaying a multi-iconic semiotic system of the type: A ≈ [B] ≈ C, which is finally reduced to a twofold indexical system: A ← [B], contra Graham Townsley’s dismissal of semiotic theory as being of no relevance in contrast to cognitive construction. And, secondly, to show that within the traditional Yaminahua worldview animism, totemism, and analogism, which Philippe Descola has famously described as alternative ontologies, not only coexist but also structurally intertwined in a complex ternary system supportive, on the one hand, of the basal binary logic characteristic of most Amazonian ontologies, and correlative, on the other hand, to the fourfold intersecting structure that has traditionally made possible the integration of all the Yaminahua people into the four dimensions of space, time, society, and the cosmos