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International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics - Volume 6, Issue 3, 2011
Volume 6, Issue 3, 2011
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Digital culture in Brazil: Building peeracy?
Authors: Nelson de Luca Pretto and Olga Guedes BaileyThe analysis of emerging digital culture in Brazil demands an understanding of certain aspects of Brazilian life. This article examines the relationship between Brazilian socio-economic and cultural factors, and digital development. Having initially outlined inequalities in media and digital provision, the article proceeds to examine Brazilian policy on the creation of an information society through digital inclusion programs and the provision of free and open source software (FOSS). The analysis considers policies of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and considers the concept of peeracy, a hybrid term coined by former Culture Minister Gilberto Gil suggesting equality and rights of access and sharing. The article examines digital take-up besides other media consumption patterns in Brazil, analyses the impact of telecentros and lan houses (both being public access spaces for digital participation) and concludes with an evaluation of the link between participation in digital culture and the empowerment of citizens.
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The digital era and alternatives for human and communications development in Latin America
More LessThe current study will first of all summarize the documentation and critical revision of authors like Ander Egg (2006), Cimadevilla (2008), Infante and Otros (2007), De Roberti and Pascal (2007), Jenkins (2008), Pineda (2009), Pisani and Piotet (2009) and Wolton (2006), among others. It approaches the subject of whether there are some alternatives and opportunities in the era of digital culture appearing in Latin American countries for the benefit of human and communications development. In order to fulfil this task, the investigation will focus on the development proposals that have circulated in the field since the end of the 1950s until the present time, and which highlight the necessity of their reformulation in the light of technological transformations. Furthermore, the role of communications within present challenges of development will be examined, since human development remains a qualitative problem unsolved. Later, a review will be made of the possible alternatives in the digital environment, concluding with a set of proposals on human and communications development in the region.
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Buhoneros' reggaetn: Emerging Venezuelan musical practices through mediations in the informal sociopolitical ecosystem
More LessThe following article explores the musical practices and communicating mediations carried out in each stage of the music industry's value chain in Venezuela, in order to observe the way those mediations influence the actors involved, determining the elements that both interact and define the Venezuelan's musical identity taking reggaetn (very broadly speaking, reggaetn is a Latinized derivative of Jamaican reggae, originating in Puerto Rico, via an interpretation of Panamanian reggae) as a case study. With this purpose, the research has used some empirical data and qualitative techniques, such as participants' observation, interviews and netnography, as well as quantitative data obtained from the main statistical sources in the country. After establishing the state of the art, the study raises a number of questions to be discussed: (a) the features reaffirmed through a transculturalization process mainly led by reggaetn in the Venezuelan's musical identity; (b) the creative uses the consumer has given to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to participate in the new communicating dynamics on the Internet; and (c) the effects that content appropriations, mainly encouraged by the habits of the new Internet user or Venezuelan informal commerce, are having in the country's music industry.
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Doing epistemic (in)justice to Semenya
More LessIn August 2009, Caster Semenya won the women's 800 m event at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships in Berlin. This victory became a global news story not because Semenya was a newcomer to athletics who had outperformed an established field but because of the fact that before the race she had been asked to undergo tests to determine whether or not she was a woman. This article uses a hermeneutics of suspicion to argue that the controversy surrounding Semenya was based on a set of assumptions that, although incorrect, drew on hegemonic understandings of sex and gender that dominate the discourse of sport, and were adopted by the media without question. As a consequence, Semenya became the victim of what Miranda Fricker has termed epistemic injustice a condition that arises when individuals or experiences are marginalized as a result of the absence of concepts and language that would enable us to articulate reality differently.
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Reviews
Authors: Christof Demont-Heinrich, Raymond Gozzi and Ruth ZankerTheaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany, Jennifer Fay (2008) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 0816647453, $22.50 (pbk)
McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed, W. Terrence Gordon (2010) New York: Continuum, 205 pp., ISBN 9781441126290, $75 (hbk); ISBN 9781441143808, $19.95 (pbk)
The World Summit on Children, Youth and Media, Karlstad, Sweden (2010)
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 19 (2023)
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Volume 18 (2022)
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Volume 17 (2021)
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Volume 16 (2020)
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Volume 15 (2019)
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Volume 14 (2018)
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Volume 13 (2017)
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Volume 12 (2016)
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Volume 11 (2015)
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Volume 10 (2014)
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Volume 9 (2013)
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Volume 8 (2012)
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Volume 7 (2011)
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Volume 6 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 5 (2009)
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Volume 4 (2008)
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Volume 3 (2007)
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Volume 2 (2006 - 2007)
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Volume 1 (2005)