Políticas de mediatização e memória nos contextos urbanos

The present article explores the rules of acting and living in the urban space, on which the images inspired by sensitivity and competences connected with digital and web change are regularly superimposed. This “digital imagination” is such a prime mover that it becomes the dominant model of perception, being and acting in the world today. Its presence and influence are especially significant for constitution of the contemporary memory, as well as for the conditions and ways of using it. My reflections on the status of memory are situated within the dynamics of digital change occurring in the urban space, because it is there where the achievements of the digital revolution catch on with the pioneering speed and involvement. Cities of postmodern fate decided through in categories as: identity, culture of places and space, and memory.Este artículo explora las normas de interacción y convivencia en los espacios urbanos sobre los que las imágenes inspiradas por la sensibilidad y las competencias conectadas al cambio digital se imponen frecuentemente. Esta “imaginación digital” es una gran fuerza motriz que se torna el modelo de percepción dominante, de cómo ser o actuar en la actualidad. Su presencia e influencia son particularmente importantes para la constitución de la memoria contemporánea, así como para sus condiciones y usos. Mis reflexiones sobre este estado de la memoria se sitúan en las dinámicas del cambio digital que sucede en los espacios urbanos, porque es allí donde los logros de la revolución digital se emparejan con la velocidad pionera y la participación. Ciudades con un destino postmoderno organizadas en categorías tales como: identidad, cultura de lugares y espacios y memoria.Este artigo explora as regras de interação e convivência nos espaços urbanos sobre os quais as imagens inspiradas na sensibilidade e as competências ligadas à mudança digital são frequentemente impostas. Esta “imaginação digital” es uma força tão grande que se torna o modelo de percepção dominante de como ser ou atuar atualmente. A sua  presença e influência são particularmente importantes para a constituição da memoria contemporânea, para suas condições e seus usos. As minhas reflexões sobre este estado da memória se contextualizam nas dinâmicas da mudança digital que acontece nos espaços urbanos, porque é ali onde os logros da revolução digital alcançam à velocidade pioneira e a participação. Cidades com destinos pós-modernos organizadas em categorias tipo: identidade, cultura de lugares e espaços, y memória

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Kukama Radio: the Politics and Aesthetics of Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia

This dissertation is about the political and aesthetic dimensions of Indigenous media in Peruvian Amazonia. It explores how Kukama media-makers use aesthetic mastery to engage in three key political fields in Amazonia: indigeneity, historicity, and environmentalism. I specifically examine the audiovisual discourses and media-making practices coming from an Indigenous radio station called Radio Ucamara, located in the town of Nauta in Northeastern Peru (Loreto region). Drawing on place-based ethnography and digital research methods, I analyze the way this radio station instrumentalizes multiple digital and non-digital media forms to make visible (and also audible) their identities, violent histories, and cosmological worlds amidst their confrontation with the Peruvian neoliberal state and oil companies. The dissertation also contemplates how through these processes of mediatization, Amazonian ontologies, mytho-histories, and identities are being reimagined. For this purpose, I focus both on the analysis of media products (e.g., music videos, documentaries, journalistic reportage, murals, books) and the social dynamics surrounding those creations, to understand the way Kukama media producers take part in ongoing struggles for the revitalization of the Kukama language, seeking justice for the rubber times violence, and stopping the pollution of Amazonian rivers. Following theoretical frameworks derived from the anthropology of media and the anthropology of music and verbal art in Lowland South America, I argue that media aesthetics is becoming a major instrument in building political power in the region

Are You Really There? The Mediatized Experience of the 21st Century Concert-Goer

This thesis focuses on the ways cellphone use has further mediatized the concert experience. The cellphones mediatization of the concert experience involves modifications to memory practices, understandings of the concert experience, and interpersonal interaction within the venue. The combination of a content analysis, participant observation, and interview analysis, examined qualitatively and quantitatively, found that the cellphone has become a standard accessory to concert attendance. Not only has the cellphone become standard, it has forever changed the way we remember and experience concerts. The first set of data included the news coverage of cellphone use during concerts between the years of 2002-2016. The second set of data came from the notes taken during the participant observation of five concerts. The third set of data, the interview analysis, includes 30 concert-goers, five of which were local artists

The communicative construction of collectivities: an interdisciplinary approach to media history

The paper discusses some concepts, trends, and deficits in recent media history, and it makes a plea for a history of communication to implement media into a broader conception of social history. Therefore, we employ a wider notion of mediatization which is used in media and communication studies, and re-formulate it for historical research. On the basis of that notion, we introduce the theoretical concept of ‘communicative figurations’ which an interdisciplinary research group in Bremen and Hamburg developed to ask how changing media environments and ensembles interrelate with societal and political transformations. In transferring it in research on imagined communities in times of analogue media, the paper presents some early insights into an on-going project and pursues questions about the communicative construction of collectivities

Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualizing communication not only in terms of the use of language and texts, but as involving any kind of objectification, such as technologies, bodies and non-verbal signs, it considers the roles of both direct and mediatized (or digitized) communication. An examination of the conceptualization of the communicative (re-)construction of spaces and the means by which this change might be empirically investigated, this book demonstrates the fruitfulness of the notion of refiguration as a means by which to understand the transformation of contemporary societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, and geographers with interests in social construction and urban space

Communicative Figurations

This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answers this question by taking a non-media-centric perspective, researching the various figurations of collectivities and organizations humans are involved in. The first part of the book outlines a fundamental understanding of the changing media environment of deep mediatization and its transformative capacity. The second part focuses on collectivities and movements: communities in the city, critical social movements, maker, online gaming groups and networked groups of young people. The third part moves institutions and organizations into the foreground, discussing the transformation of journalism, religion, politics, and education, whilst the fourth and final part is dedicated to methodologies and perspectives

Adapting communication conventions: helping vulnerable people in Adelaide learn about climate change and adaptation

In this thesis, mediatization theory is used to investigate whether political institutional approaches to communications are helping people from low socio-economic (SES) backgrounds in Adelaide, Australia, learn about climate change and adaptation. People from such backgrounds are the focus because they are more vulnerable than others in society to climate change and thus have a more pressing need to learn about how to adapt to the challenges they face. However, knowledge is limited about how such people in developed nations learn about climate change and adaptation. A mixed method, convergent research design was adopted for the study. Quantitative data was collected via a survey of 110 people living below the poverty line in Adelaide. Qualitative data was collected from nineteen semi-structured interviews with expert professionals associated with climate change and adaptation communications. The survey data was analysed with standard statistical reporting techniques. A thematic analysis of the qualitative data was conducted, using the institutional indicators of mediatization to identify the themes. Results show that those who completed the survey are aware of climate change but not adaptation. The survey respondents have consistent traditional and new media consumption habits, are engaging regularly with current affairs and view climate change and adapting to it as an issue of concern to people from a low SES background. Participants unanimously express distrust in political institutions responsible for communicating climate change and adaptation in Adelaide. Results also show greater concern about climate change amongst respondents who completed the survey in the summer than those who participated in the winter. The interview results show unanimously that expert participants have dysfunctional relationships with the media, and think it is pointless communicating with people from low SES backgrounds about climate change and adaptation. This is because interview participants think people from a low SES background will never be interested in the topic and are potentially climate sceptics. They do not think that the media is an effective way of communicating with people from low SES backgrounds, and rarely consider using it as a means of communications about climate change and adaptation. The thesis argues that political institutions in Adelaide are not mediatized, and, through a lack of media engagement, are not helping people from low SES backgrounds in Adelaide learn about climate change and adaptation. It argues that expert participant perceptions of people from a low SES background in Adelaide as being a politically and socially disengaged section of society are inaccurate. The thesis finds evidence of a low SES counter-public in Adelaide and suggests a short-term mediated method for communicating with them but argues that in the long-term, institutions in Adelaide will benefit from becoming mediatized. A process for institutional mediatization is proposed via a community of practice to help focus attention on the development of media engagement skills and expertise at an intergovernmental level. This study concludes that the results might have wider applicability in Australia, and potentially in other developed nations.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 201

Discovering the New Place of Learning

The book explores the potential of learning outside the traditional classroom when students gain real-world experiences in a variety of contexts and public spaces such as built, natural and virtual landscapes, museums, heritage sites, science centres and community venues. The authors of the book promote and put the flexible and ‘plastic’ concept of a place of learning into action by including physical geographical location, digital, virtual and textual spaces into the analysis. The book illuminates the importance of innovative educational strategies in connecting formal, non-formal and informal education – experiential learning in museums, heritage places and communities, inquiry-based pedagogy, digital storytelling, environmental online games, narrative geographies, and the use of geospatial technologies