Navigating the Digital Landscape

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Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014, 2014

This is the introduction to the third Digital Enlightenment Yearbook, published by the Digital Enlightenment Forum (http://www.digitalenlightenment.org/), which aims to shed light on today’s rapid technological changes and their impact on society and its governance, taking inspiration from Enlightenment thought as well as from the many transformations and evolutions that have taken place since. This year the focus of the Yearbook is “social networks and social machines, surveillance and empowerment.” In what is now the well-established tradition of the Yearbooks, different stakeholders in society and various disciplinary communities (technology, law, philosophy, sociology, economics, policymaking) bring their very different opinions and perspectives to bear on this topic, forming a basis for inspiring and constructive cross-disciplinary discussions.

Digital revolution has profound impacts on all aspects of cultural value chain and represents an unprecedented change in creation, production, distribution, broadcasting and consumption of cultural goods and services as well as in the remuneration of creators. In this view, digital technologies have positive and negative aspects in cultural sectors, according to how they are applied in national and regional contexts. In remote areas the question of the adjustment of local industries to the new technological opportunities becomes a key challenge to continue serving local and regional markets and accessing eventually global markets. Recent developments, such as the dematerialization of cultural products, the direct connections between creators and consumers, the convergence blurring the boundaries between cultural production, distribution and consumption and the increased cross-national connectivity, but also the impact of digital revolution on cultural behaviour and identity, raise a number of challenges and opportunities. Among these, the digital divide is still a barrier preventing access to culture in many developing countries. The globalised cultural offer and access increases the quantity and availability of cultural works, but not necessarily their visibility and diversity. The over-concentration of data on a small number of privately-owned global platforms implies that investment in cultural and digital infrastructure is driven mainly by economic interests and market optimization. Moreover, the issue of intellectual property protection is crucial insofar as copyright legislation is strongly affected by the transnational and intangible nature of online companies and the lack of updated norms. Finally the huge creative possibilities offered to artists by machine learning and artificial intelligence remain still largely untapped.

2016

Considering the frame of interaction between urban space and digital technologies, CYBERPARKS Project organized a Training School in order to reflect and generate new outputs about the topic. Coordinated by Prof. Konstantinos Ioannidis, the Training School « Enhancements : Mediated Digital Landscape » took place during four days (from the 29th March to the 1st April 2016) in the greek city of Thessaloniki. In the context of a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM), I participated as an anthropologist to assume an external outlook and evaluate the impacts and success of the school. The Training School shift from the classical hierarchical relationship to a participatory process of learning, empowering 31 participants coming from 16 different european countries in this extra-scholar formation and looking to build a new network of makers in the urban contemporary field. Following this pedagogical approach, the « Action Learning » program consists on 9 workshops driven by 15 tutors representing a wide scale of european countries, schools, fieldworks, approaches and areas of research. Attending to one workshop per half-day, the participants were invited to work in teams, starting from a concept or a case study introduced by the tutor and lead to produce a common project, ending with a public presentation.

The Design Journal, 2017

While digital space is explained in itself by computer science, important questions for the humanities - such as how the Digital affects human behaviour, or how it impacts society and economy – are outside its scope. Different disciplines have provided answers, but there has been no integrated concept bridging these insights. This paper proposes a concept to explain the Digital by integrating insights from computer science, media studies, sociology and philosophy. The resulting framework suggests that the Digital consists of characteristic dynamics, spaces and mechanisms. After explaining the concept of Digital Machine, an ontological framework consisting of four main fields of analysis - Transformation, Territory, Frame and Use - is proposed. With Transformations and Territories, the processes of the Digital and its wider socio-political and economic dimensions are analysed. Within Frames, human action and interpretation happen. In the Uses of the Digital, consumption has become a form of production, and User’s uses can be analysed in the differential between the intents of a Digital Machine and the interpretations of its users. To conclude, Anders’ concept of Promethean slope is taken to explain the increasing problems of humans to distinguish the actions of algorithms from human action, and future implications of the evolution of the Digital are discussed. Finally, routes for digital innovation and recommendations for design practice are proposed.

Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 2022

Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 2009 yılından beri düzenli olarak Ocak ve Temmuz aylarında yılda iki kez yayınlanan hakemli bir dergidir. Dergimizde yayınlanan yazıların her türlü sorumluluğu yazarına aittir. Yayımlanan yazıların telif hakkı dergiye aittir ve referans gösterilmeden aktarılamaz.

2013

Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions are emerging now that new media are being taken for granted, and which riddles are still unsolved? Is contemporary digital culture indeed all about 'you', the participating user, or do we still not really understand the digital machinery and how this constitutes us as 'you'? The contributors to the present book, all employed in teaching and researching new media and digital culture, assembled their 'digital material' into an anthology, covering issues ranging from desktop metaphors to Web 2.0 ecosystems, from touch screens to blogging and e-learning, from role-playing games and cybergothic music to wireless dreams. Together the contributions provide a showcase of current research in the field, from what may be called a 'digital-materialist' perspective.

2020

This chapter summarizes the main themes associated with relationships between digital technology and society. It first proposes four central characteristics of digital technology that differentiate this concept from the more general term “information society.” Then it maps the growth of the use of terms associated with digital technology in articles in academic databases from 1972 through 2018, and in books from 1967 through 2008. However, the main focus is on summarizing the emergent themes associated with 89 recent books on digital technology society: (A) theory and conceptualization of this vast social change; (B) technology (venues and characteristics), (C) issues (content, creation; big data; civic issues; participation, engagement; inclusion, exclusion, discrimination; ethics, ethical issues; and managing the digital experience), (D) contexts (digitization of self and others; health; relationships; user groups; culture, everyday life, education, learning; work and organization...