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published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Science in Information Technology in Education

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Journalism and Media Studies), 2016 / This research report is an exploratory study into two regional commercial music stations (YFM and 947) and their use of Twitter as a tool to relate to, interact with and enable participation from their audiences. Of particular interest was why they are using it, what they are doing with it and how this affects the on-air content pre, during and post broadcast, if at all it does. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version] / GR2017

This dissertation makes the connection between the human drive, as described by psychoanalysis, to construct God and the construction of the technological entity, Google. Google constitutes the extension of the early Christian period God to the twenty-first century. From the examination of significant religious and theological texts by significant theologians (Augustine, Thomas, Luther, Calvin, etc.) that explain the nature of God, the analogous relationship of God to Google will open a psychoanalytic discourse that answers questions on the current state of human mediation with the world. Freud and, more significantly, Lacan’s work connects the human creation of God, ex nihilio, to Google’s godly qualities and behaviors (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence). This illustrates the powerful motivation behind the creation of an all-encompassing physical / earthly entity that includes the immaterial properties of God. Essentially, Google operates as the extension or replacement of the long reigning God in Western culture. Furthermore, the advent of science and technology through rationalism (as outlined by Nietzsche) results in the death of the metaphysical God and the ascension of the technological God. Google offers an appropriate example for study. Moreover, the work of Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan will further comment on Google as the technological manifestation of God, particularly in its media formulations. Finally, this dissertation concludes with a review that highlights future research with an exploration that foresees the death of Google from the same rational method of inquiry by which the death of God occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

My intention for this show is to explore the effect of alienation that ironically is being produced by social media. The principal concept is developed around shame, sharing, and notoriety on three different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. This show explores the social media perception of myself in the realms of human interaction, identity, and memory in social media through the critical appropriation of the languages of design and photography. The installation with four Facebook profile pictures in large scale and framed looks at the way a personal image can convey the impression of widely different personalities. The selections of personal exchanges over Facebook and Instagram show the degree to which social media creates its own visual language and mode of communication, which sometimes becomes separated from reality and intention. The show extends its reach to performance and direct interaction with the viewer through the availability of stickers for comments by the profile pictures and a third area, where viewers can write or draw their own messages through the simple medium of chalk, which can then be rendered in virtual form through posts on a specially created webpage. The viewer should thus be challenged to ask, to what degrees do words and images communicate the essence of our selves and our own will. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-06T12:55:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Desirèe Luíse Lopes Conceição.pdf: 2748185 bytes, checksum: c467bc5ad86bb59233d0a5e34244958c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-06T12:55:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Desirèe Luíse Lopes Conceição.pdf: 2748185 bytes, checksum: c467bc5ad86bb59233d0a5e34244958c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation aims to analyze the political information produced and disseminated by the digital platform “Truco!”, which is Agência Pública’s fact-checking project developed for the 2014 election in order to identify and ascertain the political debate taking place. The methodology adopted is based on the network policy concept of the author Manuel Castells, and consists of an elaboration for primary data collection, defined from the interactions and linked to the initial proposal of this research. The results recognize qualitative investigative journalism work with political participation activities, and it’s possible to relate them to the idea that the internet has elements to contribute to citizen education / A dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a produção e divulgação de informação política na plataforma digital “Truco!”, um projeto de fact-checking da Agência Pública desenvolvido para as eleições de 2014, além de identificar e averiguar o debate político ocorrido por meio da iniciativa. A metodologia adotada é baseada no conceito de política em rede do autor Manuel Castells. A técnica metodológica consistiu na elaboração de indicadores para a coleta de dados primários, definidos a partir de uma análise piloto e da identificação de padrões de interação relacionados à proposta inicial da pesquisa. Os resultados permitem identificar um trabalho de jornalismo investigativo qualitativo, além da presença de atividades de colaboração e participação política, o que aponta à concepção de que a internet contém elementos para contribuir com a formação para a cidadania

Chung Yuen Yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-174). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract (English Version) --- p.i-iii / Abstract (Chinese Version) --- p.iv-v / Acknowledgement --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1-15 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.16-39 / Chapter 2.1 --- Cyberspace and its Activism --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2 --- Communication in Virtual Community --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3 --- Virtual Community and Public Sphere --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4 --- Virtual Community and Commercial Control --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Theoretical Framework and Research Design --- p.40-51 / Chapter 3.1 --- Theoretical Framework --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2 --- Research Design --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Participant-Observation --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- In-depth Interview --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Textual Analysis --- p.49 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Briefing on LIFT --- p.52-66 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Concept of LIFT --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2 --- Participants as Artist Managers in Virtual Music Community --- p.56 / Chapter 4.3 --- Participants as Artists in Virtual Music Community --- p.59 / Chapter 4.4 --- Main Events for all Members in LIFT --- p.60 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Audition --- p.61 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Post-audition Dinner --- p.62 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Artist Management Talk --- p.62 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Mini Show --- p.63 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- Street Show --- p.64 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Interaction in Virtual Music Community --- p.67-107 / Chapter 5.1 --- Structure of the Corporation (Virtual Music Community): Loud Music --- p.69 / Chapter 5.2 --- Virtual Status on the Forum: How did the Virtual Members Build Up? --- p.73 / Chapter 5.3 --- Cultural Characteristics in Virtual Music Communities --- p.74 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Usage Pattern --- p.75 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- The Use of Language --- p.76 / Chapter 5.4 --- Accomplishment through Interaction in Virtual Music Communities --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Company Name of the Virtual Music Community: How did the Virtual Members Make it? --- p.78 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Company Logo of the Virtual Music Community: How did the Virtual Members Create it? --- p.80 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Company Slogan of the Virtual Music Community: How did the Virtual Members Generate the Ideas? --- p.84 / Chapter 5.4.4 --- Lyrics Creations for Our Artists: How did the Virtual Members Draft and Collect them? --- p.85 / Chapter 5.4.5 --- CD Album Cover for the Artists of Virtual Music Community: How did the Virtual Members Conduct? --- p.87 / Chapter 5.4.6 --- Virtual Advertisement in Hompy of the Virtual Music Community: How did the Virtual Members Conceive such Idea and Put it into Practice? --- p.90 / Chapter 5.5 --- Difficulties of Interaction in Virtual Music Community --- p.96 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- The Concern of Off Topic Discussion and the Problem of Inactiveness --- p.96 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- The Occurrence of Virtual Argument --- p.99 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- The Existence of Troublemakers --- p.103 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Commercial Intervention in Virtual Music Community --- p.108-127 / Chapter 6.1 --- The Arrangement of Real Core Groups in LIFT --- p.108 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- The Invitation of CUHK Real Core Group --- p.108 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- The Withdrawal of Real Core Groups --- p.111 / Chapter 6.2 --- Exclusive Participation --- p.113 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Virtual Artist Managers as well as Net Users --- p.113 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Virtual Artists as well as Net Users --- p.114 / Chapter 6.3 --- The Autonomy of Involvement in Virtual Music Community --- p.115 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- The Involvement in Judge Panel --- p.115 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- The Involvement in Promotion Work for the Artists --- p.116 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- The Role / Duties of Virtual Music Community --- p.118 / Chapter 6.3.4 --- The Interaction on the Forum --- p.121 / Chapter 6.4 --- Turning Point: Negotiation between the Organization and Virtual Music Community --- p.123 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion and Discussion --- p.128-12 / Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusion and Discussion --- p.121 / Chapter 7.2 --- Limitation and Further Research --- p.134 / Chapter 7.3 --- Epilogue --- p.135 / Appendices (1 -26) --- p.137-16 / Bibliography --- p.168-17

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-21T11:38:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Deusiney Robson de Araújo Farias.pdf: 1248283 bytes, checksum: 1dd8ae014c54ed45828e05d8949a1b39 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T11:38:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Deusiney Robson de Araújo Farias.pdf: 1248283 bytes, checksum: 1dd8ae014c54ed45828e05d8949a1b39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-27 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Activism in cyberspace, also called cyberactivism, a transnational practice that puts us before invisible demands for techno excluded, and largely ignored by the political field, is presented as a solution to political problems, such as the collaborative public dialogue promotion and as online mobilization. In Brazil, the political struggles variations of recent years raise the following questions: what are the fundamental characteristics of activism in cyberspace and in the Brazilian political field? According to their characteristics, for what reasons do the demands and actions proposed by cyberactivists have little repercussion and support in the Brazilian political field and in society, often leading to temporary disappearance or at random? In response to these questions, we propose five hypotheses, namely: [1] political activism in cyberspace is part of an "activist protocampo"; [2] the hackeractivist has the potential to influence the political field through its actions of resistance; cyberactivists can simulate public opinion; The clickactivist or "like" activist is the maneuvering mass of the cyberactivist actions; [3] ciberactivism favors a much more alterity with the medium of communication and its connection links; [4] the political field is based on the blackmail game, characterized as its main conventional method of action / articulation; and [5] this form of activism provoked a political field reaction, which instrumented means capable of neutralizing actions in cyberspace and capitalizing on the results in favor of the image itself. The critical reflection on the Brazilian political and cybercultural reality aims at organizing a theoretical-methodological framework based on the deductive reasoning method, which is supported by two related symbolic models: [a] the political field as an autonomous microcosm, a socially structure based on a control and dispute system; and [b] activism in cyberspace, an emerging form of action with enormous political potential. Pierre Bourdieu's methodological view of relationally thinking about the object represented a fundamental part of our thesis. Likewise, the theoretical-epistemological framework formed in Brazil about activism in cyberspace contributed to the existing terms classification in the existing literature. Especially based on the concepts of Eugenio Trivinho, Jean Baudrillard, Fábio Malini, Henrique Antoun and Norberto Bobbio, we propose the concept of glocal activism, considering the global life organization modes added to the technomiditic local civilization arrangements resulted in a third social and political dimension, no longer local or global, but - just - glocal. This way, we conclude that, behind the political field visible power, there is an invisible power that acts through the blackmail game. In this dispute, hackeractivism has great potential to decrypt the existing game and eventually subvert the structures of power. This same action, however, makes us vulnerable to advanced digital technology, historically reinforcing the glocal phenomenon as an inexorable existential condition / O ativismo no ciberespaço, também denominado ciberativismo, prática transnacional que nos coloca diante de demandas invisíveis para tecnoexcluídos e, em grande parte, ignoradas pelo campo político, apresenta-se como solução para problemas políticos, como promoção de diálogo público colaborativo e como mobilização online. No Brasil, as vicissitudes das lutas políticas dos últimos anos fazem emergir as seguintes questões: quais as características fundamentais do ativismo no ciberespaço e do campo político brasileiro?; em que pesem suas características, por quais razões as demandas e ações propostas pelos ciberativistas têm pouca repercussão e sustentação no campo político brasileiro e na sociedade, muitas vezes chegando ao desaparecimento temporário ou ao ocaso? Como resposta a essas questões, propomos cinco hipóteses, a saber: [1] o ativismo político no ciberespaço faz parte de um “protocampo ativista”; [2] o hackerativista tem o potencial de influenciar o campo político por meio de suas ações de resistência; os ciberativistas podem criar simulacros de opinião pública; o clickativista ou ativista like é massa de manobra das ações ciberativistas; [3] O ciberativismo favorece muito mais uma alteridade com o meio de comunicação e seus links de conexão; [4] o campo político sustenta-se a partir do jogo de chantagens, caracterizado como o seu principal método convencional de ação/articulação; e [5] essa forma de ativismo provocou uma reação por parte do campo político, que instrumentalizou meios capazes de neutralizar ações no ciberespaço e capitalizar os resultados em favor da própria imagem. A reflexão crítica sobre essa realidade política e cibercultural brasileira visa organizar um arcabouço teórico-metodológico a partir do método de raciocínio dedutivo, baseada em dois modelos simbólicos conexos: [a] o campo político como microcosmo autônomo, estrutura socialmente estruturada sobre um sistema de controle e disputa; e [b] o ativismo no ciberespaço, forma emergente de ação com enorme potencial político. A visão metodológica de Pierre Bourdieu, de pensar relacionalmente o objeto, representou parte fundamental de nossa Tese. Igualmente, o arcabouço teórico-epistemólogico formado no Brasil sobre ativismo no ciberespaço contribuiu para a classificação dos termos apresentados na literatura existente. Especialmente com base nos conceitos de Eugênio Trivinho, Jean Baudrillard, Fábio Malini, Henrique Antoun e Norberto Bobbio, propomos o conceito de ativismo glocal, considerando que os modos de organização global da vida, somados aos arranjos locais na civilização tecnomidiática, resultaram em uma terceira dimensão social e política, já nem local nem global, mas – justamente – glocal. Diante disso, concluímos que, por trás do poder visível do campo político, existe um poder invisível que atua por meio do jogo de chantagens. Nessa disputa, o hackerativismo tem grande potencial para descriptografar o jogo existente e, eventualmente, subverter as estruturas de poder. Essa mesma ação, contudo, nos entrega ao domínio da tecnologia digital avançada, reforçando historicamente o fenômeno glocal como condição existencial inexorável

Chiu, Shu Ju Ann. / "March 2011." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-317). / Questionnaire in Chinese. / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Acknowledgement --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iv / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.V / Chapter Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Statement of Problem --- p.3 / Theoretical Discussion of Chinese Overseas and the Internet --- p.10 / Methodology --- p.20 / Thesis Chapters --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter II. --- Old and New Immigrants and the Internet in Manhattan Chinatown --- p.32 / Realignment of Social Structure after 9/11 --- p.36 / Changing Occupational Composition after 9/11 --- p.41 / Locality and Community Identifications of Old and New Immigrants --- p.45 / Transnational Migration and the Internet in Manhattan Chinatown --- p.55 / Chapter Chapter III. --- Emigrant Families and the Internet in Guangdong and Fujian --- p.65 / Transnational Migration to New York --- p.66 / Jiangmen Wuyi: Hometown of Old Cantonese Immigrants --- p.71 / Fuzhou Shiyi: Hometown of New Fujianese Immigrants --- p.84 / Chapter Chapter IV. --- Hometown Association and Homepage: CCBA-NY and Fujianese.com --- p.102 / Hometown Websites in Manhattan Chinatown --- p.104 / Weblog and the Profile of Hometown Associations --- p.113 / The Online Persona of CCBA-NY and Fujianese.com --- p.117 / Chapter Chapter V. --- Ancestral Worship Ritual and the Politics of Traditional Associations --- p.136 / Kinship Rhetoric and Cultural Politics of Ethnicity --- p.138 / The Sacred Place and Cultural Politics of New Fujianese Associations --- p.147 / The Sacred Space to Honor Ancestors for Old Cantonese Associations --- p.158 / Chapter Chapter VI. --- Online Debates over the Cultural Landmark of Manhattan Chinatown --- p.168 / Chinatown Visitor Information Kiosk --- p.170 / Chinese Archway --- p.176 / Confucius and Lin Zexu --- p.183 / Chapter Chapter VII. --- Miss Internet and the Hometown Memory of Fuzhou Migrants --- p.199 / The Internet Users and Non-Internet Users in the Fujianese Community --- p.201 / "Miss NY Chinese Pageant, Hometown Memory and Cultural Identity" --- p.211 / MissFujianese.com and the Cultural Construction --- p.222 / Chapter Chapter VIII. --- Online Ethnic Media and Social Action against Discrimination from American Mainstream Society --- p.239 / The Rally against CW11 and the Online Chinese Daily Press --- p.241 / The Rally against CBS and the Ethnic Websites --- p.250 / Online Social World of Chinese Immigrants --- p.262 / Chapter Chapter IX. --- Conclusion --- p.277 / Appendix --- p.295 / Bibliography --- p.302

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication