Cybercultures

O papel dos pais e educadores na formação dos jovens quanto ao uso ético e construtivo da Internet

by Solange Barros

COMPANHIAS DE OUTRO MUNDO: UM BREVE OLHAR SOBRE A SOCIABILIDADE EM RPGS ONLINE.

by Felippe Thomaz

Uncovering the French-speaking jihadisphere: An exploratory analysis

by Benjamin Ducol

Terrorist groups have exploited the internet and other information technologies to advance their strategies since the... more Terrorist groups have exploited the internet and other information technologies to advance their strategies since the mid-1990s. Violent jihadi groups are no exception. They have located the internet at the core of their media strategies, which has given birth to a vibrant global jihadisphere: an online community of militants and sympathizers united by their common adherence to a global Salafi jihadi ideology. Not only do jihadi groups devote increasing energy to attempting to connect with global audiences, but jihadi sympathizers from all around the world are more involved than ever in widening the spread of jihadi online content through para-personal media. The expanding use of non-Arabic languages such as French, English, German, Russian and Dutch by jihadi groups and ideologues has not yet been adequately examined in the academic literature. This article represents a preliminary effort at delineating the nature of the French-speaking jihadisphere, including discussion of the major websites and forums composing it, the real and virtual links between these, and how forum users originally learned of the forums’ existence.

O Aparelhado no Jardim: Uma proposta narrativa de antimonumento na UFSM (anais do II Seminário Internacional de Arte Pública na América Latina - GEAP Latinoamerica / UFES)

by Fábio Purper Machado

Escrito por Fábio Purper Machado, com orientação de José Francisco Flores Goulart. In: II° Seminario Internacional sobre Arte Público en Latinoamérica, 2011, Vitória: GEAP Latinoamérica, UFES. Anais... Arte Público y espacios políticos: interacciones y fracturas en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2011. v.2. p.396 - 406. ISBN 978-85-7654-118-9.
O link 4shared abaixo é para o livro II inteiro dos anais do evento.
Mais informações em http://artepublica2011.blogspot.com.br

Este texto, dentro da temática Arte e intervenções em espaços extra-urbanos na América Latina, trata de uma pesquisa... more Este texto, dentro da temática Arte e intervenções em espaços extra-urbanos na América Latina, trata de uma pesquisa em escultura onde se enfatizam a materialidade da argila no gesto do modelado, as aproximações entre a figuração atingida e a linguagem das histórias em quadrinhos poético-filosóficas (Santos Neto, 2009), suas possibilidades alegóricas como problematização de questões sociais e valores estéticos, e, enfim, sua culminância num espaço público: o projeto “O Sujeito Aparelhado” no jardim de esculturas do Centro de Educação do campus da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, como trabalho de graduação do autor no Bacharelado em Artes Visuais da instituição, aliado a um projeto de revitalização deste espaço, empreendido pelo prof. Ms. José Francisco Flores Goulart. São abordadas aqui idéias, influências e leituras que traçam um fio condutor para a compreensão da trajetória desta pesquisa e de questões que envolvem seu momento atual, entre elas o dilema entre o monumento/antimonumento público e os interesses do poder (Alves, 2005), e as acumulações, apropriações e disseminações imagéticas da cibercultura (Couchot, 2003), tendo esta aproximação sido iniciada em estudos empreendidos pelo autor na Licenciatura em Artes Visuais na USFM. Reflete-se nesta pesquisa artística uma relação com o riso do escárnio, e também com aquele de quando nos deparamos com o abismo...

This text, about art and interventions in extra-urban spaces in Latin America, deals about a sculpture research where clay's materiality and modeling gesture are emphasized, about the proximities between its figures and poetic-philosophic comics' language (Santos Neto, 2009), about their possibilities of questioning social issues and ethical values, and their peak at a public space: the sculpture "Le Sujet Appareillé", projected to the Education Center (UFSM Campus) sculpture garden, as the author's graduation job on Visual Arts Bachelors Degree at the same institution, and allied to the project of revitalization of the same space, emprehended by Prof. Ms. José Francisco Flores Goulart.
Some ideas, influences and readings which trace a conductive line to the comprehension of this research path are brought, along with questions which involve its current moment, amongst them the dilemma between public monument/antimonument and ideological interests (Alves, 2005), and the accumulations, appropriations and imagetic disseminations of cyberculture (Couchot, 2003), on an approach done by the author at Visual Arts Bachelor's Degree on Education at UFSM. On this artistic research it is reflected a relation with a jeering laughter, and also the laugh of when we face the abyss...

Rethinking the fragmentation of the cyberpublic: from consensus to contestation

by Lincoln Dahlberg

2007 New Media & Society 9(5): 829-849.

Cyber-libertarianism 2.0: A discourse theory/critical political economy examination

by Lincoln Dahlberg

2010, Cultural Politics 6(3): 331-356

Call For Papers: Folklore and Literature Journal Special Issue: Cyber Culture

by Z.Nilüfer Nahya

Preview of the Cybercrime Handbook for Commuity Corrections

by Art Bowker

This is the first 23 pages of the book, which includes the Foreword (thanks Jim Tanner), the Preface, Acknowledgement... more This is the first 23 pages of the book, which includes the Foreword (thanks Jim Tanner), the Preface, Acknowledgement and about 5 pages of first chapter. For more details about the book visit  http://www.ccthomas.com/details.cfm?P_ISBN13=9780398087289#tabs

Ficção científica (social) – As ténues fronteiras entre real e ficção

by Daniel Cardoso

Presented at the "Colóquio Cibercultura e Ficção"
1/3/2012

Pensar a ficção científica na sua interacção com o tecido social é, geralmente, pensar nas tecnologias que ajudou a... more Pensar a ficção científica na sua interacção com o tecido social é, geralmente, pensar nas tecnologias que ajudou a inspirar, numa relação quase mítica entre ficção e realidade, procurando as semelhanças e lendo-as como mecanismo profético. A partir de um exemplo apenas, o caso de “Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha”, coloca-se aqui o desafio de pensar a ficção científica como ficção científica (social). Ou seja, a ficção científica também é (e também inspira) tecnologias sociais, desafiando pressupostos e também gerando linguagem, na construção de heterotopias (ou distopias). Isto sucede, no caso em questão, por um movimento de imitação directa e de memética, cujas marcas ainda se podem sentir, na (ciber-)cultura – que então não existia – em torno do “poliamor”.

Palavras-chave: meme, cibercultura, tecnologias sociais, heterotopia, poliamor

AvatarCulture

by Stephen Webb

Information, Communication and Society

The paper discusses the flows of social interaction in virtual environments and how intermittence best describes how... more The paper discusses the flows of social interaction in virtual environments and how intermittence best describes how users participate and withdraw from different encounters. Avatar culture binds people together temporarily and loosely and then frees them up to relocate themselves elsewhere. In this context, virtual environments might be regarded as putting structure and power into movement. The ethnographic approach adopted helps peel back the residue of social structure to reveal a virtual agency with its emerging shells of avatar-derived affiliations, tensions and conflicts.

FLYER: THE CYBERCRIME HANDBOOK

by Art Bowker

In the early 1990s, professionals began to question how to address offender computer use while on supervision, but in... more In the early 1990s, professionals began to question how to address offender computer use while on supervision, but in the past ten years, tools emerged that were specifically developed
for triage and field forensics. As these were rapidly embraced, it was still unclear what professionals could look for, how to look for it, and how to interpret what they found. This unique book resolves those issues. The book provides a clear outline of what can and should be done regarding the management of offender computer use. Not only does the text help community
corrections professionals understand how to monitor computer use, but it helps realize how information gained during monitoring can assist in overall case management. The book takes the reader through all the paces of managing offender cyber-risk
and is meant specifically for pretrial, probation, parole, and community sanction officers. The chapters are organized by major areas, such as community corrections and cyberspace, understanding the options, condition legality, operational legality,
accessing cyber-risk, computer education, principles of effective computer monitoring, search and seizure, deploying monitoring software, and online investigations. Additionally, numerous appendices provide a wealth of information regarding model forms, questionnaires, and worksheets. This book moves the reader toward a more informed use of the technology that is now readily available to effectively manage offenders' digital behavior.

Managing the Risk Posed by Offender Computer Use

by Art Bowker

December 2011, Issue Paper by American Probation and Parole Association on

Since the dawn of the Information Age, individuals have used technology to commit crimes. Initially such acts were... more Since the dawn of the Information Age, individuals have used technology to commit crimes. Initially such acts were committed by those with specific skills or knowledge to break or hack into computer1 systems and/or manipulate them to steal services, data and/or funds. Some also used their skills to simply destroy systems and/or data. Increased computer availability, use and connectivity particularly with the advent of the Internet, has made the general population, including criminals, accustomed to computers and their uses. This issue paper discusses options for community corrections in managing the risk posed by offenders using computers and the Internet.

Avatar Erotics

by Jack Bratich

In The Unbearables Big Book of Sex, pp. 595-608, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia Press.

Nonacademic alchemical essay on digital media and desire. Caveat Lector: published version is author's first draft. Nonacademic alchemical essay on digital media and desire. Caveat Lector: published version is author's first draft.

Visions and Images of Jihad: Orientalism and the Distorted Lens of Technology

by Ray Pun

Project Rhetoric of Inquiry (forthcoming)

Reading the Body: Interpreting Three Dimensional Media as Narrative

by James Barrett

The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010. As in the past, the conference was driven by questions related to how cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction can provide new insights into the nature of what it is to be human and the understanding of what it means for human beings to live in communities.

This chapter argues that virtual online worlds are sites for the realization of narrative, in a form of reading that... more This chapter argues that virtual online worlds are sites for the realization of narrative, in a form of reading that is posthuman and performative. The in-world avatar is the embodiment of an interpreting agent in the virtual world. Such devices accomplish a number of functions in terms of narrative realisation. The avatar contributes to the realisation of narrative through the navigation of the spatial attributes, the setting up of perspective in terms of Point of View (POV) in the reading, and as a character agent in the narrative architecture of the virtual world.
Such characteristics are in the cybernetic relationship between the virtual world as a text, and the responses that can be made to it in reception. Architecture becomes the grammar of reading in the virtual world, with design and code, copyright and address directing narrative. The body of the avatar and the body of the person operating it are joined across the spaces of the digital and the physical in the navigation of the virtual three-dimensional. 

Cyberspace and virtual places

by Paul Adams

Computer networks are often described in terms that imply a virtual space or place: electronic frontier, cyberspace,... more Computer networks are often described in terms that imply a virtual space or place: electronic frontier, cyberspace, and information superhighway have been used to indicate computer networks as a whole; cafes, dungeons, and virtual offices are some of the "places" people refer to as being in or on networks. The use of this language, which I collectively call "virtual-place metaphors," indicates three broad metaphorical themes: virtual architecture, electronic frontier, and cyberspace. The metaphors encourage control, surveillance, and capitalist expansion through computer technologies--and also evasion and resistance through computer technologies.

Technology and the Fleshly Interface in Forster’s “The Machine Stops”: An Ecocritical Appraisal of a One-Hundred Year Old Future

by Alf Seegert

Published in 'Journal of Ecocriticism,' 2 (1), January 2010.

As a prescient critique of telepresence technologies like the Internet, “The Machine Stops” satirizes hypermediated... more As a prescient critique of telepresence technologies like the Internet, “The Machine Stops” satirizes hypermediated contact and in its place valorizes contact made with the fleshly body-—so much so, that it fantasizes the removal of all technological mediations between that body and the “real.” This move carries strong ecocritical implications in its suggestion that all authentic connection—whether between people themselves or between people and the earth—must be corporeal. The narrator’s apology on behalf of “beautiful naked man” (122) and his nostalgia for the robust, technology-­free body are, however, both problematic. Forster appears to conflate nakedness and fleshly connection with unmediated contact or “full presence,” a view that raises many potential criticisms and questions. If the body proves to be but one kind of mediating interface itself, then on what grounds should the mode of fleshly connection be privileged over interactions mediated by motors, buttons, and video screens? If all contact must be mediated somehow, does it even make sense to consider one type of interface as “more authentic” than another? Is it right to equate nakedness with freedom from technology? In this paper I use an ecocritical perspective to explore such questions in the text, focusing in particular on Forster’s depiction of technology as devastating to both the human body and to the experience of space and place. The timeliness of such concerns suggests that “The Machine Stops” might prove even more significant in the hypermediated world of today than it was a hundred years ago for questioning the relationship between corporeality, representation, and nature.

Till We Have [Inter] faces: The Cybercultural Ecologies of Avatar

by Alf Seegert

Published in 'Western Humanities Review,' Summer 2010.

Cyberproximity: Illusion or Possibility? Digital and Corporeal Identity in Guillermo Gómez Peña’s Friendly Cannibals

by Sara Luco

Paper for the 2012 ASCA Workshop "Extremely Close and Incredibly Slow", co-authored with Jenny Luco.

From Players to Raiders: Wissensgenerierung in virtuellen Welten am Beispiel kollektiver Gaming Projekte

by Felix Abrudan

University seminar paper/ BA thesis topic introduction