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Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off To Work We Go: The Influence of Employment Patterns on Music Downloading
No full textThursday, May 23 • 9:00am - 10:30am
Session 1A: Productive Consumers / Consommateurs productifs
1.Eddy Borges-Rey (University of Stirling), Re-imagining online music prosumption: Creative Appropriations and Music Imagery.
2.Yannick Lapointe (Université Laval),
Le travail créatif de l'auditeur : le cas de la scène haute-fidélité.
3. Matthew Woolhouse (McMaster University), Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off To Work We Go: The Influence of Employment Patterns on Music Downloading.
Chair / Président: William Echar
La nueva convergencia de la musica digital: Imaginarios y prosumo emergente
No full textEn la actualidad, la música digital y el cúmulo de prác0cas culturales circunscritas a ella, escapan a regulaciones de orden social, polí0co y legal. A pesar del esfuerzo que la industria musical ha inver0do en mantener el control sobre los procesos inherentes a su producción, distribución y mercadeo, el nuevo usuario ha redimensionado la dinámica de consumo haciendo que el control sobre el contenido pase de la industria a la audiencia y que el flujo de novedosas prác0cas culturales y apropiaciones crea0vas llame la atención de estudiosos e inves0gadores. Diferentes escenarios comunica0vos virtuales como las redes sociales, tubes sites, y redes p2p, entre otros, están facilitando esta transición a nivel mundial y los contenidos que se crean, intercambian, comentan y modifican en estos ámbitos, catalizan una serie de mudanzas (De Aguilera, 2008) de diverso signo que comienzan a cons0tuir los cimientos de una nueva era comunica0va
Miradas Al Sur: a criação mitológica do bairro sur na obra de Jorge Luis Borges
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2014Este estudo investiga como Jorge Luis Borges constrói o Sur como espaço mítico, em seus três primeiros livros de poesia. Para tanto, analisou-se de que forma a representação de tal espaço torna-o simbólico e, posteriormente, mítico, tanto no conjunto da obra do autor, como também, a partir desse movimento individual de Borges, no imaginário coletivo da cidade. Estudou-se ainda como a memória própria e o imaginário criaram espaços afetivos, que permeiam a totalidade dos textos do autor.Abstract: This study investigates how Jorge Luis Borges builds Sur neighborhood as mythic space in his first three books of poetry. To this end, we analyzed how the representation of such a space make of it a symbolic and later a mythical space, both in the overall work of the author, but also that individual movement of Borges that achieve the collective imagination of the city. Still we have studied how the personal memory and the imagery is able to create emotional spaces, which constitute the totality of texts by the author
News Images on Instagram: The paradox of authenticity in hyperreal photo reportage
No full textThis article examines the extent to which the online photo-sharing service Instagram assists professional and citizen photojournalists in the performative construction of a hyperreality in accordance with Baudrillard's theory. Based on a visual analysis of the Instagram photo feeds of six citizen photojournalists and six professional photojournalists, this research aims to identify the various simulations and discourses used by professional and citizen photojournalists alike to stage their photographs and to characterise the differences demarcating the professional-amateur divide. It also examines how the interaction between technology, photojournalistic practices and subjectivity stimulates the mediations and negotiations that condition the construction of this hyperreality. The study demonstrates that by producing, uploading, sharing, commenting upon and promoting these altered photo reportages, the Instagram community inadvertently creates a hyperreal depiction of the world that challenges both, the sense of authenticity characteristic of citizen journalism and amateur photography, as well as the realism to which professional photojournalism has historically subscribed. Moreover, it argues that in order to create their images, Instagram photojournalists use a series of aesthetic conventions and performative discourses that correspond to their roles as either amateurs or professionals. Nevertheless, each group tries to simulate the aforementioned conventions and discourses of the other in an attempt to get closer either to the sense of amateurish authenticity or to professional neatness. As a result, this paradoxical interaction has the potential to transform today's visual imagery by means of a simulated reality that needs further explanation
A three-dimensional inverse finite-element method applied to experimental eddy-current imaging data.
No full textEddy-current techniques can be used to create electrical conductivity mapping of an object. The eddy-current imaging system in this paper is a magnetic induction tomography (MIT) system. MIT images the electrical conductivity of the target based on impedance measurements from pairs of excitation and detection coils. The inverse problem here is ill-posed and nonlinear. Current state-of-the-art image reconstruction methods in MIT are generally based on linear algorithms. In this paper, a regularized Gauss-Newton scheme has been implemented based on an edge finite-element forward solver and an efficient formula for the Jacobian matrix. Applications of Tikhonov and total variation regularization have been studied. Results are presented from experimental data collected from a newly developed MIT system. The paper also presents further progress in using an MIT system for molten metal flow visualization in continuous casting by applying the proposed algorithm in a real experiment in a continuous casting pilot plant of Corus RD&T, Teesside Technology Centre
Unravelling data journalism. A study of data journalism practice in British newsrooms
No full textThe centrality of data in modern society has prompted a need to examine the increasingly powerful role of data brokers and their efforts to quantify the world. Practices and methods such as surveillance, biometrics, automation, data creeping, or profiling consumer behaviour, all offer opportunities and challenges to news reporting. Nonetheless, as most professional journalists display a degree of hesitancy towards numbers and computational literacy, there are only limited means to investigate the power dynamics underpinning data. This article discusses the extent to which current data journalism practices in the UK employ databases and algorithms as a means of holding data organisations accountable. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with data journalists, data editors and news managers working for British mainstream media, the study looks at how data journalism operates within the news cycle of professional newsrooms in the UK. Additionally, it examines the innovations data journalism brings to storytelling, newsgathering, and the dissemination of news
Borges and Old English: analysis of the poem on the exploits of Beowulf, Solomon and Saturn and Battle of Maldon.
No full textreservedIl seguente elaborato ha come scopo quello di analizzare la figura del poeta argentino Jorge Luis Borges, molto conosciuto per le sue opere di genere fantastico in lingua spagnola, in relazione al suo interessamento verso la letteratura germanica. In particolare si focalizzerà sull’antico inglese, passione nata grazie alla sua curiosità verso la cultura del padre. Si parlerà della sua malattia congenita, la cecità, che lo porta a riflettere alle sue origini e a comporre saggi sull’inglese antico. Successivamente vengono illustrati alcuni dei poemi in antico inglese che ha reinterpretato in modo personale, sono i seguenti: Le gesta di Beowulf, Solomon and Saturn e la Battaglia di Moldan. L’ obbiettivo è quindi quello di mettere a confronto queste opere della letteratura germanica con l’interpretazione che ne dà Borges e di dare un quadro generale del contesto storico e della relazione tra l’autore e il mondo germanico.The aim of the following paper is to analyse the figure of the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges, who is well
known for his works in the Spanish-language fantasy genre, in relation to his interest in Germanic literature.
In particular, he will focus on Old English, a passion born out of his curiosity for his father's culture. His
congenital illness, blindness, which led him to reflect on his origins and compose essays on Old English, will
be discussed. Next, some of the Old English poems that he reinterpreted in his own personal way are
illustrated, they are as follows: The Exploits of Beowulf, Solomon and Saturn and the Battle of Moldan. The
aim is thus to compare these works of Germanic literature with Borges' interpretation of them and to give
an overview of the historical context and the relationship between the author and the Germanic world
Buhoneros' reggaeton: Emerging Venezuelan musical practices through mediations in the informal sociopolitical ecosystem
No full textThe following article explores the musical practices and communicating mediations carried out in each stage of the music industry's value chain in Venezuela, in order to observe the way those mediations influence the actors involved, determining the elements that both interact and define the Venezuelan's musical identity taking reg- gaetón (very broadly speaking, reggaetón is a Latinized derivative of Jamaican reggae, originating in Puerto Rico, via an interpretation of Panamanian reggae) as a case study. With this purpose, the research has used some empirical data and qualitative techniques, such as participants' observation, interviews and netnography, as well as quantitative data obtained from the main statistical sources in the country. After establishing the state of the art, the study raises a number of questions to be dis- cussed: (a) the features reaffirmed through a transculturalization process – mainly led by reggaetón – in the Venezuelan’s musical identity; (b) the creative uses the con- sumer has given to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to participate in the new communicating dynamics on the Internet; and (c) the effects that content appropriations, mainly encouraged by the habits of the new Internet user or Venezuelan informal commerce, are having in the country’s music industry
Towards an epistemology of data journalism in the devolved nations of the United Kingdom: Changes and continuities in materiality, performativity and reflexivity
No full textThis article outlines a general epistemological framework of data journalism in the devolved nations of the UK. By using an original model based on three conceptual lenses—materiality, performativity and reflexivity—this study examines the development of this form of journalism, the challenges it faces, and its particularities in the context of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This research therefore offers unique insights from semi-structured interviews with data journalists and data editors based at, or working as freelancers for, the mainstream news organisations of these regions. The results suggest that data journalism in these devolved nations displays a distinctive character just as much as it reinforces the norms and rituals of the legacy organisations that pioneered this practice. Whilst various models of data exploitation are tested, regional data journalists creatively circumvent generalised organisational struggles to lay the groundwork for their trade and professional community
Imaginario colectivo musical. Convenciones en el proceso de interpretacion del sentido de la musica
No full textHuman society has built itself over the years. Social models have been transformed with each new revolution of thinking; those processes, which served the purpose of settling the foundations for a net of relations in every field, led to what we human beings nowadays perceive as our environment. However, not only what is visible at first glance has been built, but also unnoticed, complex abstractions which tacitly give a meaning to numerous elements of everyday life. Many situations happen around us in which thousands of signs are interpreted at an unimaginable speed; it's on these signification systems that conventions are constantly rewritten in a perpetual code update. This is how music in particular stands out as a form of discourse that generates an interpretation. From the study of significance's point of view, music provokes a response on the receiving end, but the answer to how that response is generated is still an issue for heated, passionate discussions among experts
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