Police Officer-Involved Homicide Database Project

Our project explores un- and under-reported incidents of law enforcement-involved homicides, both justified and unjustified, through an analysis of extant federal and local databases with information pertaining to police officer-involved homicides, combined with mining and analysis of social media data and participatory action research methods to fill gaps in existing government and local databases. The social media information can be used in concert with other publicly available government databases to create a clearer picture of the lived realities of communities encountering police homicides in the United States. We have chosen Los Angeles County as the first community to study.ye

Alternative and Activist New Media (Digital Media and Society)

Alternatif dan Aktivis New Media memberikan gambaran yang kaya dan mudah diakses tentang bagaimana aktivis, seniman, dan kelompok masyarakat di seluruh dunia menggunakan teknologi media dan informasi baru untuk mendapatkan visibilitas dan suara, menghadirkan pandangan alternatif atau marjinal, berbagi sistem informasi DIY mereka sendiri. dan konten, dan sebaliknya menolak, berbicara kembali, atau menghadapi budaya media yang dominan. Saat ini, siklus penangkapan, kooptasi, dan subversi informasi, konten, dan perancangan sistem yang meriah dan kontroversial, merangkum hubungan antara 'pusat' mainstream dan 'inti' media partisipatif yang interaktif dan partisipatif. Lima bentuk utama proyek media baru alternatif dan aktivis diperkenalkan, termasuk karakteristik yang membedakannya dari bentuk dan konten media yang lebih konvensional. Buku ini menelusuri akar sejarah dari proyek-proyek ini di media alternatif, gerakan sosial, dan seni aktivis, termasuk analisis studi kasus kunci dan kaitan dengan sumber daya elektronik yang relevan. Alternatif dan Aktivis New Media akan menjadi tambahan yang berguna untuk kursus tentang media dan masyarakat baru, dan penting bagi pembaca yang tertarik pada aktivisme media baru

Indicators for Engagement – Thoughts on ICT Assessment in a World of Social Media (ITA-manu:script 09-04)

Media, telecommunications, and computing/information systems (commonly referred to as information and communication technology, or ICT) have long been associated with economic development and social/cultural change. Historically, analyses of ICT and social change have relied on measures of the ownership, availability, access, and use (diffusion and adoption) of various technological systems to evaluate their significance and social impact. However, this approach implicitly equates the use and significance of media and information technologies with the production and consumption of ICT and media ‘products’, consistent with the industrial-era logic of mass media. Technology assessment of today’s new media and ICT requires measures that more closely reflect their fundamentally social, interactive, expressive, and performative character. Here, past studies of ICTs and social change related to development research and technology assessment are briefly reviewed. Contemporary ICTs and digital culture are contrasted with mass media forms and institutions, and tentative directions are suggested for developing indicators for engagement that may be more suitable to the assessment of contemporary social media

Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse and Culture in the Information Society

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