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The genome incorporated: constructing biodigital identity
The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures. It explores questions about what it means for a technoscience to thoroughly saturate everyday life, and places the interrogation of the science/media relationship at the heart of this enquiry. The book develops a number of case studies in the mediation and consumption of genomics, including: the emergence of new direct-to-the-consumer bioinformatics companies; the mundane propagation of testing and genetic information through lifestyle television programming; and public and private engagements with art and science institutions and events. Through these novel sites, this book examines the proliferating circuits of production and consumption of genetic information and theorizes this as a process of incorporation. Its wide-ranging case studies ensure its appeal to readers across the social sciences
Creative Destruction in the Information Age: The Fallout on America\u27s Latino Communities
The 104th Congress is in the midst of the first wholesale reform of telecommunications regulation in one-half century. The new regulatory framework emerging in the Republican-controlled Congress, if enacted, will usher in a radically deregulated, market-driven telecom environment, one in which the benefits of the emerging national information infrastructure will likely be distributed differentially, based on ethnicity and socio-economic status. Many U.S. residents may actually be charged higher rates for essential telecommunication services after deregulation (just as they did when cable television was deregulated), which may force many vulnerable users off the network. In addition, the concentration of media ownership eschews the viability of greater minority control of telecommunications and media outlets. The irony then is that although advanced, interactive technologies promise empowerment and choice, a laissez-faire approach to reform may exacerbate fault lines in the information society between those who are already advantaged and less affluent ethnic and racial minorities
The Use of Social Media for Private Higher Education to High School Students in Sri Lanka
Marketing is an important part of a company's operation in revenue generation. Marketing in the private higher education (PHE) is no difference with any other companies. At the turn of this era, there is no denial that social media is one of the most cost effective method to reach a vast group of people at the shortest period of time in comparison to other available marketing channels. With the rapid growth and revolution in the social media helped catapult by the easy access to internet, the advancement and availability of mobile devices, social media marketing has become an infinite way to reach the huge customer base in Sri Lanka. Despite the fact that the growth and development of social media assisted by the factors that support the growth and usage of mobile devices and development of ICT, many PHE in Sri Lanka are not realizing the full potential. Understanding the reasons of such gaps and the factors affecting the growth and development of social media would be very useful for the marketing arms of the PHE to make use of social media to reach the target market at the relatively lower cost ratio. The purpose of the research is to find out how PHE in Sri Lanka could use social media marketing to tap into their target market. Surveys are done with the high school students to understand their social media behavior. In the findings, we have found out a number of very useful information such as the peak period of the day, what are their favorite social media, what are the applications in the social media that they use the most and including the usage of the people closes to them. These information can be used by PHE is plan their online marketing. Keywords: Social media marketing, higher education, high school student, promotion, Sri Lank
clicktatorship and democrazy: Social media and political campaigning
This chapter aims to direct attention to the political dimension of the social media age.
Although current events like the Cambridge Analytica data breach managed to raise awareness for the
issue, the systematically organized and orchestrated mechanisms at play still remain oblivious to most.
Next to dangerous monopoly-tendencies among the powerful players on the market, reliance on
automated algorithms in dealing with content seems to enable large-scale manipulation that is applied for
economical and political purposes alike. The successful replacement of traditional parties by movements
based on personality cults around marketable young faces like Emmanuel Macron or Austriaâs Sebastian
Kurz is strongly linked to products and services offered by an industry that simply provides likes and
followers for cash. Inspired by Trumpâs monopolization of the Twitter-channel, these new political
acteurs use the potential of social media for effective message control, allowing them to avoid
confrontations with professional journalists. In addition, an extremely active minority of organized
agitators relies on the viral potential of the web to strongly influence and dictate public discourse â
suggesting a shift from the Spiral of Silence to the dangerous illusion of a Nexus of Noise
Information Inequality and Network Externalities: A Comparative Study of the Diffusion of Television and the Internet
This paper sheds light on whether intergroup inequality in Internet access is likely to persist as the diffusion process continues. To what extent is a given level of inequality in technology diffusion (e.g., use of the Internet) a long-term policy challenge or a temporary inconvenience? What general factors account for group-specific patterns of technology adoption? This paper draws on notions of network externalities to help answer this question. It also presents findings from a comparative analysis of household adoption of television from 1948 to 1957 and the Internet from 1994 to 2002.
Radio: The resilient medium in todayâs increasingly diverse multiplatform media environment.
Radio is a resilient medium. As in different countries around the world celebrations are being planned to mark the 100th anniversaries of the first regular domestic radio services, early predictions of its demise have so far been proven wrong. Radio transmission remains overwhelmingly analogue in a world where digital switchover of television currently preoccupies many governments and audiences alike
High Hopes for Video: The UK Independent Film and Video Sector's Engagement with the Videocassette
When VHS technology took off in the late 1970s/early 1980s, it triggered widespread hopes in the UK that it would provide the means to deliver non-mainstream moving image work â artistsâ film and video, documentary work, political activism, as well as domestic and European feature films â to wider audiences. Correspondence from the Greater London Council, the Arts Council and distributors, as well as press releases, magazine articles and contracts document various initiatives that sprung up amid those hopes in order to enable audiences to access a wider range of moving image work â via the shelves of public libraries and the newly instigated video access libraries, as well as in their own homes through rental and sell-through ventures. This article uses this archive material â available via the Film & Video Distribution Database (http://fv-distribution-database.ac.uk) â to explore the range of these initiatives (especially the library schemes), together with the enthusiasm and concerns to which they gave rise and how these parallel more contemporary initiatives in the digital realm
Media do not exist : performativity and mediating conjunctures
Collection : Theory on demand ; 31Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati offers a radically new approach to the phenomenon of mediation, proposing a new understanding that challenges the very notion of medium. It begins with a historical overview of recent developments in Western thought on mediation, especially since the mid 80s and the emergence of the disciplines of media archaeology and intermediality. While these developments are inseparable from the advent of digital technology, they have a long history. The authors trace the roots of this thought back to the dawn of philosophy.
Humans interact with their environment â which includes other humans â not through media, but rather through a series of continually evolving mediations, which Larrue and Vitali-Rosati call âmediating conjuncturesâ. This observation leads them to the paradoxical argument that âmedia do not existâ. Existing theories of mediation processes remain largely influenced by a traditional understanding of media as relatively stable entities. Media Do Not Exist demonstrates the limits of this conception. The dynamics relating to mediation are the product not of a single medium, but rather of a series of mediating conjunctures. They are created by ceaselessly shifting events and interactions, blending the human and the non-human, energy, and matter
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