Trebor Scholz, Laura Y. Liu: From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · city, internet, labour, life, network culture, technology, urbanism, web 2.0, work
“The authors reflect on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. Online and off, Internet users are increasingly wielded as a resource for economic amelioration, for private capture, and the channels of communication are becoming increasingly inscrutable. Liu and Scholz ask: How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation?”
Publisher The Architectural League of New York, New York, Fall 2010
Situated Technologies Pamphlet series, 7
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
77 pages
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Comment (1)Martin Hirst: News 2.0: Can Journalism Survive the Internet? (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · blogging, internet, journalism, media studies, web 2.0, youtube
Technology is transforming the media and with it, the practice of journalism. Martin Hirst investigates the implications of the new media explosion for the Fourth Estate and the way news is gathered and consumed around the world.
There have never been so many ways of producing news and news-like content. From podcasts, to YouTube, blogs and the phenomenal popularity of social media, seismic shifts are underway in global media.
News 2.0 bridges the gap between theory and practice to present an integrated approach to journalism that redefines the profession. Key ideas in journalism theory, political economy and media studies are used to explore the changing cultures of journalism in an historical context.
Hirst explains the fragmentation of the mass audience for news products, and how digital commerce has disconnected consumers from real democracy. He argues that journalism requires a restatement of the role of journalists as public intellectuals with a commitment to truth, trust and the public interest.
Publisher Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2011
ISBN 1742370578, 9781742370576
256 pages
Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén: Wikiworld (2008/2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · capitalism, collaboration, economy, education, learning, political economy, politics, socialist media, web 2.0
Wikiworld explores a revolution in the world of education. The way we learn is changing: institutionalised learning is transforming into new forms of critical learning and open collaboration. This book offers a historical and political framework to think about the future of learning and educational media.
The authors provide an overview of the use of new technologies and learning practices, and assess how the changing nature of education can lead to a more socially just future. At the same time, they place their analysis of education within a wider social and economic framework of contemporary capitalism.
Publisher Pluto Press, 2010
ISBN 0745328911, 9780745328911
176 pages
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