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TOD 18: Geoblocking and Global Video Culture
How do global audiences use streaming platforms like YouTube, Netflix and iPlayer? How does the experience of digital video change according to location? What strategies do people use to access out-of-region content? What are the commercial and governmental motivations behind geoblocking?
Editor(s): Ramon Lobato James Meese
Author(s): Florian Hoof Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Jinying Li Ramon Lobato James Meese Vanessa Mendes Moreira De Sa Aneta Podkalicka Marketa Trimble Fidel A. Rodríguez Fernández Adam Rugg
What: audiences streaming platforms strategy geography digital video access commercial geoblocking
When: 2016
TOD 17: The Gray Zones of Creativity and Capital
What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance? What is the role of these industries in the prioritization of the interests of capital at the expense of those of society and how can these paradigms be criticized in the context of the actual, neoliberal, flexible regime of reproduction of capital? To what measure is this regime ‘flexible’ and to what measure it is just an extension of rigid, feudal and racial logics that underline (post)modern representational discourses? To what measure do the concepts of creativity, transparency, openness and flexibility conceal the hegemonic nature of modern hierarchies of exploitation?
Editor(s): Šefik Tatlić Gordana Nikolić
Author(s): Johnatan Beller Josephine Berry Slater Marc James Léger Ana Vilenica Sandi Abram Irmgard Emmelheinz
What: industry capitalism globalisation new media neoliberalism politics creativity art economy imperialism
When: 2015
TOD 16: Online Courtship, International Interactions Across Borders
Computer mediated interpersonal interactions are defining our daily lives as we know it. Studying this phenomenon with various methodologies, across different cultures and traditions is a crucial component in understanding social ties. This book brings together articles that approach online dating from a range of cultural and critical perspectives.
Editor(s): I. Alev Degim James Johnson Tao Fu
Author(s): H.G. Cocks Murat Akser Ramón Reichert Diego Basile and Joaquín Linne Lázaro M. Bacallao Pino Cláudia Casimiro Pascal Lardellier Caiyun Wen Sheena Raja and Bryce J. Renninger Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi David Levin Gabriele de Seta and Ge Zhang Tao Fu Yann-Ling Chin Aras Ozgun Megan Lindsay Enver Ozustun
What: interactions sociology relationship love globalization politics economy online dating identity
When: 2015
TOD 15: In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism
In their new work research collective Ippolita provides a critical investigation of the inner workings of Facebook as a model for all commercial social networks. Facebook is an extraordinary platform that can generate large profit from the daily activities of its users. Facebook may appear to be a form of free entertainment and self-promotion but in reality its users are working for the development of a new type of market where they trade relationships. As users of social media we have willingly submitted to a vast social, economic and cultural experiment.
Author(s): Ippolita
What: interactions sociology relationship friendship Facebook social networks social media culture activism identity libertarianism network
When: 2015
TOD 14: Transcoding the Digital, How Metaphors Matter in New Media
This book is a material-semiotic inquiry into the constitutive role of metaphors in our daily encounters with computers and networks. While interface concepts such as desktop and windows are easily recognized as metaphors, this research shows how in fact all digital sign-tool-objects – ranging from icons and email to Facebook friends, from hyperlink and tweet to Pirate Bay – are digital-material metaphors. They frame and organize how we access the black boxes of software and machinery, which in turn organize and reconfigure society. The same holds for discourse metaphors such as virtual community, cyberspace, Web 2.0, and social network.
Author(s): Marianne van den Boomen
What: metaphor new media digital email iconicity materiallity tools software
When: 2014
