Göran Bolin - Böcker

The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.

This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and problems, addressing ignored and less frequently discussed topics, critical and controversial themes, and defining niches and directions of development in mediatisation.With a focus on the under-representation of certain topics and aspects, as well as methodological, technological, and ethical dilemmas, the chapters consider the main critical objections formulated against mediatisation studies and exchange critical positions. Moving beyond areas of common focus – culture, sport, and religion – to emerging areas of study such as fashion, the military, business, and the environment, the book then offers a critical assessment of the transformation of fields and the relevance of new and dynamic (meta)processes including datafication, counter-mediatisation, and platformisation.Charting new paths of development in mediatisation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of mediatisation, media studies, media literacy, communication studies, and research methods.

This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and problems, addressing ignored and less frequently discussed topics, critical and controversial themes, and defining niches and directions of development in mediatisation.With a focus on the under-representation of certain topics and aspects, as well as methodological, technological, and ethical dilemmas, the chapters consider the main critical objections formulated against mediatisation studies and exchange critical positions. Moving beyond areas of common focus – culture, sport, and religion – to emerging areas of study such as fashion, the military, business, and the environment, the book then offers a critical assessment of the transformation of fields and the relevance of new and dynamic (meta)processes including datafication, counter-mediatisation, and platformisation.Charting new paths of development in mediatisation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of mediatisation, media studies, media literacy, communication studies, and research methods.

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them. This book focuses on how value - aesthetic, political and social and economic value - is produced in contemporary media and cultural production. Contending that value is not constituted by the essence of a thing, but is rather produced in social relations, through negotiations and justifications, Value and the Media discusses changes in the cultural industries over the past two decades, emphasising the rise of new, digital media, and the opportunities that these afford for the production and consumption of media texts and objects. Richly illustrated with examples from the UK, USA and Europe, this volume explores a range of media: both old mass media and new personal media, with a constant focus on the importance of both for our understanding of the changes that have occurred on the media landscape and their implications for the production of value. As such, this book will be of interest to social scientists and theorists working in the fields of cultural and media studies, popular culture, and consumption.

The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them. This book focuses on how value - aesthetic, political and social and economic value - is produced in contemporary media and cultural production. Contending that value is not constituted by the essence of a thing, but is rather produced in social relations, through negotiations and justifications, Value and the Media discusses changes in the cultural industries over the past two decades, emphasising the rise of new, digital media, and the opportunities that these afford for the production and consumption of media texts and objects. Richly illustrated with examples from the UK, USA and Europe, this volume explores a range of media: both old mass media and new personal media, with a constant focus on the importance of both for our understanding of the changes that have occurred on the media landscape and their implications for the production of value. As such, this book will be of interest to social scientists and theorists working in the fields of cultural and media studies, popular culture, and consumption.

Based on an extended empirical research project, this open access book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions of digital mediatization and in relation to a set of particular historical and geopolitical circumstances.Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society adds to existing knowledge of the democratizing role of digital media in communication studies by carefully tracing the trajectory of the emergent communicative and representational practices of civil society in a pair of new European democracies – Estonia and Bulgaria – facing distinctive socio-cultural and political challenges. The book combines macro and micro perspectives to illuminate the activities of civic activist and civil society organizations in the new media environment taking into account the social and cultural developments characteristic of each country. Have digital media contributed to the constitution of a new public space fostering the vitality and democratic potency of civil society in countries where it has suffered historical obstacles?The book addresses this question by traversing the whole range between personal, group and societal beliefs, lived experiences and actions unfolding in a concrete region at a time when civic activists around the world are grappling to understand and harness the powers of digital communication.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Södertörn University

This volume sheds light on the underlying dynamics of mediatization, disentangling the actual unfolding of mediatization processes.

This volume sheds light on the underlying dynamics of mediatization, disentangling the actual unfolding of mediatization processes.

Den som vill förstå dagens mediesamhälle har mycket att hämta genom att återvända till tidigare analyser, teorier och idéer - till vad som kunde kallas för medie-vetenskapens idétraditioner. Den här antologin inventerar och förmedlar ett förråd av traditioner och texter, fyllt av verktyg för att navigera i det samtida medielandskapet. Varje kapitel behandlar en klassisk medievetenskaplig text och placerar den i sitt historiska och vetenskapliga sammanhang; presenterar en närläsning av dess centrala innehåll och diskuterar dess relevans idag. Bokens kapitel är tänkta att erbjuda ett stöd till egen läsning av originaltexterna, inte att ersätta sådan läsning.Boken riktar sig till studenter och lärare i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap och närliggande ämnen samt andra som intresserar sig för medievetenskapens idétraditioner.

I dagens senmoderna samhällen är vi genomsyrade av medier – på arbetet, i skolan och på fritiden – och det påverkar oss i princip all vår vakna tid. Medielandskap & mediekultur ger oss en introduktion till det vetenskapliga studiet av mediernas roll i kultur och samhälle och tar upp en rad viktiga frågor.

I boken diskuteras frågor som:

Hur inverkar olika medier på oss som medborgare och kulturkonsumenter? Vad betyder det att vi ständigt är uppkopplade mot olika kommunikationsnätverk? Hur formas vi som individer i relation till de till synes oändliga utbud av information, nyheter och underhållning som medierna erbjuder? Hur kan appar och sociala nätverksmedier fungera som kommunikativa resurser i våra vardagsliv? Vad innebär den ökade betydelsen av data för politik, ekonomi och sociala relationer? Hur kan vi analysera mediernas alltmer komplexa och sofistikerade texter? Vilka analytiska modeller kan vi använda oss av för att förstå dessa frågor?

Boken lämpar sig väl för grundkurser i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, journalistik och liknande ämnen, men kan även användas på andra humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga kurser. Den andra, reviderade upplagan har genomgått en allmän översyn och uppdatering av begrepp och modeller.

Nya resonemang och diskussioner har adderats kring:

ökade globala maktstrukturer kopplade till europeiska, amerikanska och kinesiska plattformsföretag medier, postkolonialism och kosmopolitism förändrad konsumtion av nyheter online den ökade medialiseringen och datafieringen av vardagslivet det ökade behovet av medielitteracitet och mediekunnighet.

Sagt om boken"Det är dock inte enbart studenter som kan ha glädje och nytta av den, tvärtom torde boken vara både intressant och läsbar för en bred allmänhet. I dag är de flesta av oss genomsyrade av medier och behöver därför verktyg för att förstå vad denna nya mediala situation betyder för hur vi uppfattar oss själva och omvärlden – och inte minst hur vårt agerande påverkas. Sådana verktyg ger den här boken genom att på ett begripligt, men ändå gediget sätt diskutera olika perspektiv på vad medierna gör med oss och vad vi gör med dem. Här finns avsnitt om mediernas makt och ideologiproduktion, men också om hur vi som konsumenter använder dem för att skapa identitet och mening i våra liv. Dessutom ger den historiska genomgången djupare förståelse för medieteknikernas kognitiva betydelser". David Björklund, lektör, BTJ-häftet nr 7, 2017.

Om författarnaStina Bengtsson, Göran Bolin, Michael Forsman, Sofia Johansson och Per Ståhlberg är lärare och forskare i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Södertörns högskola. Peter Jakobsson är verksam i samma ämne vid Uppsala universitet.