Web Studies

Cultura e Internet: il patrimonio culturale siciliano e la sua visibilità sul web

by Elisa Bonacini

StrumentiRes Anno IV | n° 1 | Febbraio 2012; ISSN  2279-6851

Si presentano i risultati dell'indagine sulla visibilità online del patrimonio culturale siciliano (realizzata nel... more Si presentano i risultati dell'indagine sulla visibilità online del patrimonio culturale siciliano (realizzata nel volume "La visibilit@ sul web del patrimonio culturale siciliano. Criticità e prospettive attraverso un survey on-line con Guida multimediale ai musei siciliani sul web"), soffermandosi sulle principali criticità e illustrando le potenzialità non adeguatamente sfruttate della comunicazione culturale sul web.

Mixed Self: Theoretical Approach to the Online Self

by Sonia Sebastiao

ESA Research Network Sociology of Culture Midterm Conference: Culture and the Making of Worlds, October 2010

The present paper presents a theoretical framework to the study of personal identities gathering structural and... more The present paper presents a theoretical framework to the study of personal identities gathering structural and interactionist approaches to offline and online selves. My intention is to demonstrate the adequacy of Goffman’s symbolic interactionism in the definition of a mixed self in cyberspace. This mixed self has elements of a surrogate and of a complement to offline self-presentations. So it can be stable and fragmented, grounded and constructed, real and simulated. If it seems consensual that Internet has changed cultural processes and the basis of social identity with the displacement of grounded interaction to a virtual space, doubts remain in considering that it allows the separate existence of multiple aspects of the self that otherwise wouldn’t be expressed, in an infinite possibility of programming multiple selves. I agree that identity is a social construct (Hall, 1992 and 1996; Giddens, 1991; Jenkins, 1996) and it is saturated with social aspects and struggles existing both in online and offline spaces.

In this work, I determine that there is no such thing as: “one person – one identity,” because, even in embodied life, people have “many identities” according with the social role they have to play in a determinant context (Levy, 2000; Lahire, 2001). The multiple identities usually linked to cyberself do exist, but must be tied to post-modern times, schizophrenic identity or mixed selves, since: the perturbation and crisis in the social world and the emergency of a new sociocultural level – global – characterized by fast-moving changes and content overload; lead to identity fragmentation and to a self made of patchwork elements.

Keywords: Identity, Social Construct, Cyberspace, Mixed Self

“Body, Nation and Identity: Guillermo Gómez-Peña Performances on the Web”

by Niamh Thornton

Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature Taylor, Claire and Pitman, Thea (eds)

This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in... more This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency, for Latin Americans.

Public Broadcasting, the Information Society, and the Internet

by Amit Schejter

The Cyberart of Corpos Informáticos

by Margaret Anne Clarke

Published in Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman (Eds) (2007) Latin American Cyberliterature and Cyberculture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 70 - 86

This chapter provides an overview and analysis of the website more This chapter provides an overview and analysis of the website www.corpos.org, a website constructed by the Brazilian performance and installation art collective Corpos Informáticos. The chapter treats some central themes of Corpos Informáticos' work: the treatment of the human body and ontological status in relation to broadcasting media and contemporary technology, proposing an alternative conceptualisation called "symbolic ecology" which allows for no fundamental schism between the human, the organic and the technologies that both create. The website also exemplifies, through a process of dual construction by its creators and the 'internaut' or viewer-participant, a redimension of the body effected by the affordances provided by framing, looping flash and hypertext. The chapter also considers other philosophical conceptions proposed by the collective's writings and web art, partly informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze, concerning the nature of knowledge itself, and the concepts of evolution of life and society fundamental to Western thought.

'The Map is the Debate': Radiation Webmapping and Public Involvement During the Fukushima Issue

by Jean-Christophe Plantin

Paper presented at the OII-ICS conference 'a decade in internet time', 21-23 september 2011

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This article explores how mapping mashup can trigger and shape the public involvement during an online controversy. It... more This article explores how mapping mashup can trigger and shape the public involvement during an online controversy. It suggests to depart from merely focusing on the maps’ impact to rather analyse their specific affordances in shaping the public engagement. This interrelation between maps and public can be analysed in the online debate about radiation levels in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear event in March 2011: various maps were created in order to provide alternative views of the radiation situation. This case study provides the opportunity to analyse how citizens gathered online to fulfill the various steps in radiation mapmaking; the various steps in this process were reconstituted by interviewing the main actors and by using a Web Crawler. Once this interrelation between the public and maps is clarified, the affordances of mapping mashup are characterized by their belonging to digital culture.

Cartographie numérique et participation à une controverse en ligne : le cas de la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima.

by Jean-Christophe Plantin

Article soumis aux actes des Doctorales de la SFSIC 2011, Bordeaux.

La cartographie numérique tend à s’imposer comme un acteur clé du Web participatif contemporain. Les technologies... more La cartographie numérique tend à s’imposer comme un acteur clé du Web participatif contemporain. Les technologies propres au Web, en rencontrant cet objet, en ont facilité la manipulation: les cartes en ligne sont ainsi mobilisées comme support de pratiques expressives variées. Sont-elles pour autant constitutives d’un nouvel agencement socio-technique lors d’une controverse en ligne ? Afin de répondre à cette question, nous proposons dans cet article un cadre théorique lié à différentes méthodologies suivant deux temps : après avoir analysé le programme d’action de la cartographie comme dispositif numérique, nous nous pencherons sur les pratiques cartographiques comme  participation au débat sur le niveau de radiations suite à la catastrophe de Fukushima.

A task-focused approach to support sharing and interruption recovery in web browsers

by Mohan Raj Rajamanickam

Babou, Igor, Des discours d’accompagnement aux langages : les nouveaux médias, Études de Linguistique Appliquée n°112, Didier Érudition, octobre-décembre 1998, p. 407-420.

by Igor Babou

Les nouvelles technologies sont généralement pensées comme si elles constituaient seulement un champ technique que... more Les nouvelles technologies sont généralement pensées comme si elles constituaient seulement un champ technique que l’on pourrait mobiliser au profit de la transmission des savoirs sans que soit nécessaire une réflexion préalable sur leurs usages, les langages qui y sont à l’oeuvre, ou encore l’ensemble des discours sociaux qui les accompagnent. Contre les présupposés technicistes aujourd’hui dominants, on essaiera de montrer à quel point la prise en compte de leur dimension symbolique est nécessaire : plus que de techniques, il s’agit de médias inscrits dans un ensemble de représentations, de valeurs, de pratiques
sociales, bref, dans une forme de culture. Pour cette raison, on ne saurait en attendre une quelconque transparence : leur utilisation pour la transmission des connaissances nécessite alors une compréhension de leurs spécificités.

Science blogs in research and popularization of science: why, how and for whom?

by Antoine Blanchard

In: Common Knowledge: The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity Edited by:Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte, Frédéric Darbellay, Francis Waldvogel. 219-232 Lausanne: EPFL Press

As the Internet emerged as an efficient channel for sending information and fostering collaborations on a global... more As the Internet emerged as an efficient channel for sending information and fostering collaborations on a global scale, this unanticipated phenomenon paved the way for a new era of science, namely e-science or digital scholarship. Massive data repositories moved online, academic publications (preprints and articles alike) became searchable across disciplinary boundaries, collaborations grew larger. But the Internet is now developing into so-called web 2.0, where active participation is replacing passive broadcasting: every user can become their own media maker and share videos, images or text. To date, the most popular form for the latter are blogs (short for web-logs). The blog format was originally used for online diaries but has rapidly evolved into a versatile publication and conversation tool. This shift is also being embraced by scientists, on a limited, albeit growing scale. First isolated, then grouped in communities, science bloggers (I use the term to include professional scientists as well as students, journalists, science amateurs, science museums, concerned groups…) have already demonstrated the potential to influence how research is done, results are communicated and the public is reached. Among the many topics that blogs discuss, I will focus here on science and the academic life, thus defining a type of “science blogging” that is effectively turning digital scholarship into conversational scholarship. But in concrete terms, how is that different? And where might this evolution be leading us? I try to shed some light on the matter in the following pages.

Caribbean Pirates or Robin Hood’s crowd? Perceptions of Illegal Behaviors

by Valentina Bazzarin

Complete title: Caribbean Pirates or Robin Hood’s crowd? Perceptions of Illegal Behaviors and warning signals in Internet seas and forests comparing American and Italian adolescents’ perspective.
Co-authored with Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Stefano Ghirlanda
Published in McLuhan Galaxy Conference Understanding Media, Today
Conference Proceedings
Pag. 59

One of the most well-known quotation by McLuhan is from “The Global Village” (1962): “Technology environments are not... more One of the most well-known quotation by McLuhan is from “The Global Village” (1962): “Technology environments are not merely passive containers of people but are active processes that reshape people and other technologies alike” (p. 2).
This quote is particularly relevant today, especially for children and adolescents, for whom the reshaping also involves the representation of what is legal and illegal, as well as their awareness of laws and rules intended to protect individuals from the risks of the virtual world (i.e. child grooming, cyber-bullism, privacy of personal or medical data, etc.), and of those intended to protect intellectual property or economic interests.

Web Time

by Barak Dusanson

Short essay considering the variable of time as a building material for web infrastructure. Short essay considering the variable of time as a building material for web infrastructure.

Virtual Policy Networks: Where all Roads Lead to Rome

by Kathleen McNutt

2010. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 43(4) 915–935.

Public sector websites are heavily invested in influencing policy outcomes through information provisioning and... more Public sector websites are heavily invested in influencing policy outcomes through information provisioning and dissemination. Traditionally e-government research has focused on the internal functions of e-government studying service delivery, horizontal information processing integration and levels of implementation maturity. This paper shifts the analytical focus to external-facing e-government to consider the macro presentation of state-sponsored sites on the Web. To evaluate the external face of Canadian e-government this project measures the web-based impact of public sector websites in virtual policy networks. Virtual policy networks are web-based issues networks containing content on a specific policy topic and connected through hyperlinks. It is argued that government’s online nodality in these networks is an indicator of public sector websites’ authority and influence on the Web.

An Introduction to Internet Economics

by Lee McKnight

A user study to investigate semantically relevant contextual information of WWW images

by Mohammed Belkhatir

Fluxos videomusicais: uma proposta epistemológica para o estudo dos vídeos musicais na Web 2.0

by João Pedro da Costa

in Prisma, revista electrónica do Centro de Estudos das Tecnologias e Ciências da Comunicação (cetac.media), n.º 9, 2009.

O artigo aborda as profundas alterações sofridas pelos vídeos musicais na sua convergência digital de um produto... more O artigo aborda as profundas alterações sofridas pelos vídeos musicais na sua convergência digital de um produto televisivo para um dos conteúdos mais populares da web 2.0 e propõe uma abordagem epistemológica para o seu estudo nas plataformas digitais. Os elementos basilares do modelo teórico são os Web Studies 2.0, a interdisciplinaridade com os Estudos Literários, a Cultura Participativa e a Inteligência Colectiva.

Lettura e narrazione in Rete: un esempio di commentario critico, in Ibridamenti (http://www.ibridamenti.com)

by Claudia Boscolo

In quale modo la Rete modifica il processo di lettura operata dalle pratiche di fruizione dell’informazione,... more In quale modo la Rete modifica il processo di lettura operata dalle pratiche di fruizione dell’informazione, esercitando un influsso anche sulla narrazione? È vero che lo stato di attenzione continua ma parziale produce una vittima eccellente, cioè la narrativa? La trama è destinata a morire perché il lettore da un lato non è più in grado di sostenere la lettura approfondita, dall’altro trova facile e veloce soddisfazione in altre forme narrative, per esempio le serie televisive o i post sui blog? Lo spazio della discussione, inoltre, è soggetto ad autoregolamentazione. Perché il commentario critico rappresenti un mezzo credibile per esercitare critica in Rete è necessario che la sua compilazione collettiva rispetti l’obiettivo che questa attività si pone in maniera implicita, cioè produrre risposte ai discorsi imposti dalla critica ufficiale.

I musei e le nuove frontiere dei social networks: da Facebook a Foursquare e Gowalla

by Elisa Bonacini

published on "Fizz - Oltre il marketing culturale" - novembre 2010

L’applicazione delle nuove tecnologie e l’utilizzo dei social media in campo museale si è evoluta in modo esponenziale... more L’applicazione delle nuove tecnologie e l’utilizzo dei social media in campo museale si è evoluta in modo esponenziale negli ultimi anni. La consapevolezza delle opportunità fornite dai social networks è divenuta un concetto radicato nella nostra cultura ed anche nella comunicazione e nel marketing museale. In questo articolo viene evidenziato il ruolo rivestito dai social networks più importanti, a livello di comunicazione e di marketing culturale, fino alla più recente adozione dei geo-social networks come soluzione di promozione dell’attività museale e di rafforzamento del rapporto museo-pubblico.

Visibilidad de las sedes web de los museos de Cataluña

by Cristòfol Rovira

Badell, Joan-Isidre; Rovira, Cristòfol (2010). "Visibilidad de las sedes web de los museos de Cataluña". Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 33(4), 529-550.

English

The article presents the results of an analysis of the visibility of all museums websites of... more English

The article presents the results of an analysis of the visibility of all museums websites of Catalonia between 2006 and 2009. Based on data obtained from Yahoo Site Explorer, the study found that overall the number of links received, or backlinks, had increased by 326.28 %. As compared to a referenced group of websites, this represents a very important increase. Additionally, Catalan museum websites were compared to two control groups: websites of the major European museums and websites with a .museum domain that are best positioned in Google and Yahoo. The results show that the best Catalan museum websites have attained a good visibility level internationally, although they still remain at a considerable distance from the best museums in Europe.

Español

El artículo presenta los resultados de un análisis de la visibilidad de todas las sedes web de museos de Cataluña entre los años 2006 y 2009. A partir de los datos obtenidos en Yahoo Site Explorer se ha podido comprobar que globalmente el número de enlaces recibidos ha aumentado en un 326,28 %. Se valora esta cifra en relación a un grupo de sedes web de referencia llegando a la conclusión que el aumento es muy importante. Por otra parte, se estudian las sedes web de los museos de Cataluña en comparación con dos grupos de control: sedes web de los principales museos de Europa y sedes web de los dominios .museum mejor posicionados en Google y Yahoo. Los resultados de la comparación indican que las mejores sedes webs de los museos de Cataluña tienen un buen nivel internacional en visibilidad aunque están todavía lejos de los mejores de Europa.