The incessant flow of,content and data through digital platforms implicates humanity to immaterial modes of transacting identity and memory.Through the image of the "Napalm Girl"this paper traces the ways in...The incessant flow of,content and data through digital platforms implicates humanity to immaterial modes of transacting identity and memory.Through the image of the "Napalm Girl"this paper traces the ways in which iconic images and memory can be remediated through social media platforms and algorithms.The re-contextualisation of history and memory through a technological gaze implicates us within new forms of vulnerabilities.By reviewing the politics of looking and watching online in digital platforms,the paper invites us to ponder over the flattening of memory and history through algorithms and a "digital morality"and "mortality"encoded through "user agreements"and "community standards".The repressing of this moral gaze weaves us into a social media economy where morality and ethics are refashioned through a viral economy where images are circulated, altered and reframed through digital technologies.The wider implications of this "virality"for humanity,memory making and historicity are explored.展开更多
In contemporary media ecosystem, media content is not only produced by employees rather it is also produced by its users in the form of curating stories, writing feedback, engaging in online discussions and at the sam...In contemporary media ecosystem, media content is not only produced by employees rather it is also produced by its users in the form of curating stories, writing feedback, engaging in online discussions and at the same time disseminating the content through their personal online profiles. Keeping these views in mind, this paper critically examines the political economy of <em>Ippodhu</em> (Tamil Nadu based news website), a hyperlocal news application, in terms of digital labour, audience as participatory commodities and audience as producers, which Alvin Toffler terms as prosumer. Further, this paper explores how social media, analytics, or other analytical tools create value or anti-value for <em>Ippodhu</em>. The qualitative data obtained through in-depth interview reveals that readers/audiences of <em>Ippodhu</em> are commodified in two ways, first they consume the content of the website by spending their time, which will be sold to the advertisers and secondly by creating free content either in the writing stories, uploading photographs or even in the form of comment which will be consumed by other readers/audiences which result in the chain of production of values.展开更多
The process of planetary urbanisation,which is currently affecting a large part of the world,impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way.Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearan...The process of planetary urbanisation,which is currently affecting a large part of the world,impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way.Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearance of traditional urban and rural structures and the rapid transformation of local cultures.Contextually,as never before,attempts to protect culture in its tangible and intangible expressions are increasingly central to international agendas on sustainable urbanisation.However,this is by no means an easy task to achieve.The main reason for the controversy is that the consensus around the need to protect heritage and its tools,as formulated primarily in the Western world in the past,has changed.It has been challenged by alternative,non-Western,primarily non-materialistic views,or it has been delegitimised by the(often)exploitative practice of heritagisation,as a result of the process of protection itself.The main aim of this paper is to reflect on the implications of contemporary planetary urbanisation on the built heritage and its protection,considering that most of this process is taking place in fast-developing countries of Asia,Africa and South America and,at the same time,there is a redistribution of economic(and therefore cultural)power from the West to the East,and from the North to the South of the planet.展开更多
文摘The incessant flow of,content and data through digital platforms implicates humanity to immaterial modes of transacting identity and memory.Through the image of the "Napalm Girl"this paper traces the ways in which iconic images and memory can be remediated through social media platforms and algorithms.The re-contextualisation of history and memory through a technological gaze implicates us within new forms of vulnerabilities.By reviewing the politics of looking and watching online in digital platforms,the paper invites us to ponder over the flattening of memory and history through algorithms and a "digital morality"and "mortality"encoded through "user agreements"and "community standards".The repressing of this moral gaze weaves us into a social media economy where morality and ethics are refashioned through a viral economy where images are circulated, altered and reframed through digital technologies.The wider implications of this "virality"for humanity,memory making and historicity are explored.
文摘In contemporary media ecosystem, media content is not only produced by employees rather it is also produced by its users in the form of curating stories, writing feedback, engaging in online discussions and at the same time disseminating the content through their personal online profiles. Keeping these views in mind, this paper critically examines the political economy of <em>Ippodhu</em> (Tamil Nadu based news website), a hyperlocal news application, in terms of digital labour, audience as participatory commodities and audience as producers, which Alvin Toffler terms as prosumer. Further, this paper explores how social media, analytics, or other analytical tools create value or anti-value for <em>Ippodhu</em>. The qualitative data obtained through in-depth interview reveals that readers/audiences of <em>Ippodhu</em> are commodified in two ways, first they consume the content of the website by spending their time, which will be sold to the advertisers and secondly by creating free content either in the writing stories, uploading photographs or even in the form of comment which will be consumed by other readers/audiences which result in the chain of production of values.
文摘The process of planetary urbanisation,which is currently affecting a large part of the world,impacts on the existing built environment in an unprecedented way.Its dramatic rapidity often implies the sudden disappearance of traditional urban and rural structures and the rapid transformation of local cultures.Contextually,as never before,attempts to protect culture in its tangible and intangible expressions are increasingly central to international agendas on sustainable urbanisation.However,this is by no means an easy task to achieve.The main reason for the controversy is that the consensus around the need to protect heritage and its tools,as formulated primarily in the Western world in the past,has changed.It has been challenged by alternative,non-Western,primarily non-materialistic views,or it has been delegitimised by the(often)exploitative practice of heritagisation,as a result of the process of protection itself.The main aim of this paper is to reflect on the implications of contemporary planetary urbanisation on the built heritage and its protection,considering that most of this process is taking place in fast-developing countries of Asia,Africa and South America and,at the same time,there is a redistribution of economic(and therefore cultural)power from the West to the East,and from the North to the South of the planet.
