10/11/18

"Post-Truth", Politics and Regression

The algorithmic strategies of the "post-truth" era came to unconfigure politics and are undermining the foundations of the old democracies. In addition, the new ‘clickbait’ dynamics are aggravating the already fragile positioning of the journalistic phenomenon in the contemporary world.This algorithmic turn, which came to politics, news and social interaction, is evolving to a fathomless dimension, not only because it constituted the algorithm in gatekeeper but also because it created propaganda machines specializing in social engineering, in automating political behavior and in emotional chains, manipulating opinion and creating new spirals of silence. Culture, politics and communication face these new gulfs. In this paper we will try to analyze this vertigo, this technologization and dystopia of mediation and knowledge, the new propaganda, armed now by Artificial Intelligence, in which digital platforms and their algorithms do not yet control the processes of interaction and communication, although they clearly monitor and track us, bringing the democratic experience back to more complex levels of historical and political regression. Keywords: Internet, Politics, Post-truth, Journalism, Democracy (see PDF Portuguese)

Media, diversity and globalisation in the digital age

Cádima, F. R. (2017). “Media, Diversidade e Globalização na Era Digital”, Janus.Net. Vol. 8, nº 2 (Novembro 2017-Abril 2018), pp. 88-100. Media, diversity and globalisation in the digital age

The issues of cultural diversity and the plurality of voices in the current digital and global environment are raising new challenges beyond those already identified in the context of migration from classical media to the internet galaxy. If, with traditional media, a closing logic under “the same” prevailed, with digital media we started to believe in the “apotheosis of the dream of diversity” (Curran, 2008). But the truth is that the elimination of the old filters of information and distribution does not seem to be happening. New “gatekeeping” surrounds human intervention, with current information dissemination systems having an algorithmic basis and artificial intelligence, biasing access to news and reducing space for cultural diversity or even censuring the plurality of voices and cultural expressions. Keywords: Media, Culture, Diversity, Globalisation, Digital.

Pós-verdade, Política e Regressão

Cádima, F. R. (2018). A Rede na Estratégia da Aranha: “Pós-verdade”, Política e Regressão. Observatorio (OBS*). As Formas Contemporâneas dos Conflitos e das Apostas Digitais. Special Issue, pp. 021-036. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328602612_A_Rede_na_Estrategia_da_Aranha_Pos-verdade_Politica_e_Regressao

10/10/18

Para una sociedad del conocimiento iberoamericana sostenible, plural e inclusiva

Cádima, F. R., Martins, L., e Neves, R. (2018). “Retrasos y asimetrías en el desarrollo de las TIC: para una sociedad del conocimiento iberoamericana sostenible, plural e inclusiva”. In Informe sobre El Estado de la Cultura en España y el Espacio Cultural Iberoamericano (Coord: Enrique Bustamante), pp. 75-86. Observatorio de Cultura y Comunicación. FUNDACIÓN ALTERNATIVAS: Madrid 2018. http://www.fundacionalternativas.org/public/storage/publicaciones_archivos/b5486a66778ecb59cfd0e6f2fba931fb.pdf

26/08/18

Weaponized Health Communication

Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate. Much of the anti-vaccines movement may be generated by malicious actors with malicious objectives. Whereas bots that spread malware and unsolicited content disseminated antivaccine messages, Russian trolls promoted discord. Accounts masquerading as legitimate users create false equivalency, eroding public consensus on vaccination.

28/07/18

História e Tendências dos Média Digitais

HTDM 2020-2021

13/10
Apresentação do programa do seminário e caracterização dos conteúdos programáticos.
Metodologias de investigação, fontes, referências, bases de dados e modelo de avaliação. 

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Para uma arqueologia da migração analógico/digital: contextos, dispositivos, estratégias
O dispositivo “pós-mediático”: do 'visual turn' ao 'algorithmic turn'.

Bibliografia
Uricchio, W. (2011): The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image. Visual Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, March. http://web.mit.edu/uricchio/Public/pdfs/pdfs/Algorithmic_Turn.pdf

Napoli, P. (2014). On Automation in Media Industries: Integrating Algorithmic Media Production into Media Industries Scholarship. Media Industries Journal 1.1. p. 33-39. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/on-automation-in-media-industries-integrating-algorithmic.pdf?c=mij;idno=15031809.0001.107;format=pdf

Cádima, F. R. (2015). Sobre a Era Digital: do analógico ao “algorithmic turn. Rev. FSA, Teresina, v. 12, n. 2, art. 5, p. 78-93, Mar./Abr. 2015  

Domingos, P. (2017) A Revolução do Algoritmo Mestre. Lisboa: Manuscrito

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Efeitos das grandes plataformas na sociedade em rede. Política e social media.

Bibliografia
Benkler, Yochai et al (2018). Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. NY: Oxford University Press.

Hindman, M. (2009). The Myth of Digital Democracy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Hindman, M. (2018). The Internet Trap. How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press

Vaidhyanathan, S. (2011). The Googlization of Everything and Why We Should Worry, University of California Press.

Vaidhyanathan, S. (2018). Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.


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Big Data, vigilância e protecção de dados pessoais; net-ativismo e hacking ético.

Coleman, Gabriella (2012). Coding Freedom - The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton University.

Han, Byung-Chul. 2016. No Enxame. Reflexões sobre o digital. Lisboa: Relógio de Água.

Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor. 2009. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Turkle, Sherry. 2011. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: The Perseus Books Group.


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Para uma Genealogia da Cibercultura
Entre o Pós-Humano e o Pós-Humanismo

Bibliografia
Peter Sloterdijk, Normas para el parque humano: Una respuesta a la
Carta sobre el Humanismo de Heidegger, Madrid, Siruela.

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Para uma Genealogia da Cibercultura
A Informação à Solta e o Binómio Embodiment x Disembodiment

Bibliografia
N. Katherine Hayles, Prólogo e «Toward Embodied Virtuality», in How We
Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and
Informatics, pp. xi-xiv e 1-24.

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Para uma Genealogia da Cibercultura
O cyborg como construção sociocultural

Bibliografia
Donna Haraway, «A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and
Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century», in Simians, Cyborgs
and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, pp. 149-181.


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Para uma Genealogia da Cibercultura
Do pós-humano ao pós-vital

Bibliografia
Richard Doyle, «The Sublime Object of Biology» e «Mr. Schrödinger
inside Himself: The Rhetorical Origins of the Genetic Code», in On
Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences, pp.
1-24 e 25-38.

15/12
Apresentação/discussão de trabalhos.


Bibliografia geral

BENKLER, Yochai (2006), The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book
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BOLTER, Jay David and GRUSIN, Richard (2000), Remediation. Understanding New Media, Cambridge: MIT Press.

CÁDIMA, F. Rui (2017) O (Des)controlo da Internet. Lisboa: Media XXI.
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CHADWICK, Andrew (2007), Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication, Oxford University Press.

CURRAN, James (2008), “Media Diversity and Democracy”, in The Price of Plurality. Choice, Diversity and Broadcasting Institutions in the Digital Age. Edited by Tim Gardam and David A. L. Levy.

DEUZE, Mark (2006), “Ethnic media, community media and participatory culture”. Journalism, Vol. 7(3): 262–280.

DOMSCHEIT-BERG, Daniel (2011). Nos Bastidores da Wikileaks, Lisboa: Casa das Letras.

FLICHY, Patrice, "New Media History", Handbook of New Media, Sage, 2002. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/mcquail6/PDF/136_ch08.pdf

GILLMOR, Dan (2005), Nós, os Media, Editorial Presença, Lisboa.

HANSEN, Mark B.N. (2006), New Philosophy for New Media, Cambridge: MIT Press

HAYLES, N. Katherine (1999), How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Chicago (IL), University of Chicago Press, 1999.

HINDMAN, Matthew (2009) The Myth of Digital Democracy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
(2018). The Internet Trap. How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press

INNERARITY, Daniel (2010), O Novo Espaço Público, Lisboa: Teorema.
(2016) A Política em Tempos de Indignação. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.

KIRKPATRICK, David (2011), O Efeito Facebook, Lisboa, Babel.

KITTLER, Friedrich (2010), Optical Media, Cambridge: Polity Press.

JARVIS, Jeff (2010) O Que Faria o Google? Lisboa: GestãoPlus.

GREENWALD, Glenn (2014), Snowden Sem Esconderijo, Lisboa: Bertrand.

JENKINS, Henry (2006) Convergence culture : where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press, 2006

JOHNSON, Steven (1997), Interface Culture How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate, San Francisco, Harper.

LASHINSKY, Adam (2013), O Segredo da Apple, Lisboa: Editora Objectiva.

LESSIG, Lawrence (2008), Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Nova Iorque, Penguin Press.

LIVINGSTONE, Sonia (2004), “The Challenge of Changing Audiences: Or, What is the Audience Researcher to Do in the Age of the Internet?”, European Journal of Communication, London: Sage.

MANOVICH, Lev (2009), Software takes Command, http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/11/softbook.html

MAZLISH, Bruce (1995), The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines, New Have (CT), Yale University Press, 1995.

McCHESNEY, Robert (2007), Communication Revolution. Nova Iorque: The New Press.

MEADOWS, Mark Stephen (2008), I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life, Berkeley (CA), New Riders Press.

PARISER, Eli (2011), The Filter Bubble, NY: The Penguin Press.

PÉREZ-GUERRERO, Ana (2013), Pixar, Las Claves del Éxito, Madrid: Ediciones Encuentro.

PRIOR, Markus (2007), Post-Broadcast Democracy. How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections. NY: Cambridge University Press.

RAINIE, Lee Rainie (2006) The Future of the Internet II, Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2006.pdf

SCHMIDT, Eric e COHEN, Jared (2013), A Nova Era Digital. Lisboa: D. Quixote.

TOFTS, Darren et altri (2003), Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, Cambridge (MA), The MIT Press, 2003.

TUFECKI, Zeynep (2017). Twitter and Tear Gas. The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven: Yale University Press. https://www.twitterandteargas.org/downloads/twitter-and-tear-gas-by-zeynep-tufekci.pdf

WARDRIP-FRUIN, Noah (2009), Expressive Processing, Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, Cambridge: MIT Press.

WOLF, Mark J. P., e PERRON, Bernard (orgs.), The Video Game Theory Reader, Nova Iorque, Routledge, 2003.

WU, Tim (2017). The Attention Merchants. The Epic Struggle to Get Inside our Heads. London: Atlantic Books.

VAIDHYANATHAN, Siva (2011) The Googlization of Everything and Why We Should Worry, University of California Press.
(2018). Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

ZIELINSKI, Siegfried (2008) Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

19/05/18

Publicism

Publicism - a blockchain based technology that facilitates free press, by enabling citizens and journalists to speak freely and securely without fear of repercussion.

09/05/18

Facebook en el éxito de Trump

“Facebook fue uno de los factores más importantes en el éxito de Trump”. El exdirectivo de la red social afirma que los datos de los usuarios escapan al control de la compañía, lo que ha permitido abusos como el de Cambridge Analytica (El País).

15/03/18

Fake news and online disinformation

A multi-dimensional approach to disinformation. Report of the independent High level Group on fake news and online disinformation (HLEG):
1)    Enhance transparency of online news, involving an adequate and privacy-compliant sharing of data about the systems that enable their circulation online;
2)    Promote media and information literacy to counter disinformation and help users navigate the digital media environment;
3)    Develop tools for empowering users and journalists to tackle disinformation and foster a positive engagement with fast-evolving information technologies;
4)    Safeguard the diversity and sustainability of the European news media ecosystem, and
5)    Promote continued research on the impact of disinformation in Europe to evaluate the measures taken by different actors and constantly adjust the necessary responses.

27/02/18

Jovens e internet: que idade para o consentimento parental?

Jovens e internet: que idade para o consentimento parental? (Cristina Ponte e Tito de Morais). Público, 21 de fevereiro de 2018

A propósito do Artigo 8.º do Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados e dado que este começa a produzir efeitos a 25 de Maio de 2018, a Profª Cristina Ponte, membro do CIC.Digital/ICNOVA, escreveu, com Tito de Morais, fundador do projeto MiudosSegurosNa.Net, um artigo de opinião publicado recentemente no jornal Público.

No texto, já subscrito por muitos cidadãos, os autores defendem que aumentar para 16 anos a idade do consentimento poderá contribuir para agravar um problema, em vez de o resolver:

“O Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados (RGPD), que produz efeitos a partir de 25 de maio, impede as empresas de serviços digitais de realizarem práticas de data-profiling de menores de idade, transferirem dados pessoais a entidades terceiras sem consentimento explícito prévio, e impõe o "direito ao esquecimento". Por sua vez, menores de 16 anos devem obter consentimento parental para aceder a serviços digitais, uma medida que agora se situa nos 13 anos.

“Saudando os aspetos positivos desta regulamentação, discordamos do aumento de idade no contexto português onde em muitos lares têm sido os mais novos a levar as famílias para o digital e onde permanece um fosso digital entre gerações.”

O artigo foi também publicado no site do Projecto MiudosSegurosNa.Net e está aberto a todos aqueles que o desejem subscrever. Assim, se quiserem subscrever o artigo, por favor sigam o link acima e usem o formulário no fim do artigo para se tornarem signatários:

http://www.miudossegurosna.net/artigos/2018-02-21-publico.html