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Introduction: Inside the communication revolution: evolving patterns of social and technical interaction
No full textWhat does it mean to live and work inside the information and communication technology revolution? Drawing upon cognitive, economic, management, political, and sociological theories, this book focuses on the nature and significance of newly-emerging patterns of social and technical interaction as digital technologies become more pervasive in the knowledge economy
Introduction
No full textThe technology industry names its products in ways that fool us into thinking they fit naturally, easily, and inconsequentially into our lives. They do not. Technologies often bring about social and political harms, but these harms are concealed by language that obscures and obfuscates. In this collection’s introductory chapter, we elaborate on our collective aim: to subvert Big Tech’s careful branding and to rechristen popular technologies in ways that point explicitly to their problems. We pursue this goal by drawing on a performative-material framework, which holds that what something is has to be understood as what it does; that is, we insist that digital technologies be understood and named as that which they enact, not just as the shiny material objects they appear to be. We argue that the need to rename tech is particularly urgent in our political moment, in which the rise of mis/disinformation, a resurgence in far-right ideologies, and human rights violations are increasingly visible in our digital communication ecosystems. We call for symbolic renaming, a commitment in our own communities to adopting new language that breaks with the values currently encoded by the technology industry: ableism, racism, extractivism, capitalism, and colonialism
Introduction: foundations of the theory and practice of global media and communication policy
No full textConclusion
No full textThis book has aimed to reframe technologies—and the prevailing myths around them—by displacing hegemonic language. Our motivation for doing so has been twofold: to better understand the incursions of technologies into our lives and, importantly, to make visible the ways in which technologies subjugate minoritised groups. We propose that renaming technologies is one way for people in dominant groups to do the work of allyship: to prompt reflection on our own complicity with harm-marking symbols and, ultimately, to participate in discursive practices that can bring emancipatory relations into being. Rather than continue to think of ourselves as technology ‘users’, we invoke the term ‘operative’, signalling resistance to the language and practices of Big Tech while thinking towards a reclaiming of agency
The MacBride Report: critical scholarship and the report’s value to future generations
No full textThis chapter offers a reconsideration of the historic significance of the 1980 MacBride Report—UNESCO’s International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems: Many Voices, One World. The Report is argued to have embraced a spirit of hopefulness about possibilities for a better world, and the chapter highlights the importance of public institutions as means to ensure justice and the value of global communication as a means to generate knowledge, understanding, and mutual respect
Introduction: Trust and crime in information societies
Full text linkSociology, information and computer sciences, communications, and economics are among the perspectives of 15 papers commissioned by the British government's Foresight project on Cyber Trust and Crime prevention. The project was charged with exploring the application and implications of new generations of information and communication technologies in selected areas that are expected to present future opportunities and challenges for crime prevention. They consider possible drivers of the evolution of cyberspace, opportunities created by innovations in technology, threats and barriers to cyberspace development, and the feasibility of various crime prevention measures
Content creation and curation
No full textPlatforms for content created by web users have been associated with some of the most significant economic paradigm shifts in digital media. At the same time, user created content has often been at the center of heated scholarly debates around the democratization of media production, cultural participation, and public communication. In this entry, we provide an overview of such debates within media and communication research, particularly in relation to the evolution of mainstream platforms for content creation, curation, and sharing
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