media environment / Internet as ecosystem
Hi everyone, In my PhD dissertation I'm focusing on the relations between social movements and the media, especially the Internet. I need some help in bibliography with regard to two topics: 1. the concept of media environment, mediascape, media ecology, etc. I'm considering the whole media repertoire of activists and not just focus on one specific medium. 2. the conceptualization of Internet not as a simple medium: I need some hints on papers, books and theories addressing the complexity of the Internet as an environment, an ecology that cannot be reduced to a unique technological block. Thanks a lot. Best, Emiliano Treré -- Emiliano Treré PhD candidate Doctoral Program in Multimedia Communication University of Udine, Italy
Hi Emiliano ~ Some of my work addresses your second point. In my book, *Cyber Racism*, I looked at white supremacists (neo-nazis, the KKK) as a social movement over a long period of time and how specific groups did, or did not, make the transition from print to Internet. I also examined the issue of "recruitment" vis-a-vis this social movement and the Internet. Basically, I found a lot of fear (and moral panic) about white supremacists "recruiting" via the Internet but not a lot of evidence that it actually happens. I have a lengthy discussion in Chapter 4 "White Supremacist Social Movements Online & in Global Context," that takes up this issue in detail. Good luck with your research! Best, ~ Jessie Jessie Daniels, PhD Associate Professor Urban Public Health Rm. 830W Hunter College 425 E. 25th Street New York, NY 10010 * * * website: http://www.jessiedanielsphd.com * * * blog: http://www.racismreview.com * * * My latest book: Cyber Racism http://www.cyberracism.com 2010/2/17 Emiliano Treré <emiliano.trere@uniud.it>
Hi everyone,
In my PhD dissertation I'm focusing on the relations between social movements and the media, especially the Internet. I need some help in bibliography with regard to two topics: 1. the concept of media environment, mediascape, media ecology, etc. I'm considering the whole media repertoire of activists and not just focus on one specific medium. 2. the conceptualization of Internet not as a simple medium: I need some hints on papers, books and theories addressing the complexity of the Internet as an environment, an ecology that cannot be reduced to a unique technological block.
Thanks a lot. Best, Emiliano Treré
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Greetings, In my 2001 PhD dissertation, "Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet," I reviewed literature on media ecology and media environments, and used a broad definition of the Internet as a complex set of overlapping media environments. The dissertation is available from ProQuest/UMI in both printed and electronic form (PDF file) at http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3022160 Regards to all, Janet Janet Sternberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Communication and Media Studies Latin American and Latino Studies Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458-9993 USA 718-817-4855 voice | 718-817-4868 fax jsternberg@fordham.edu | janet.sternberg@nyu.edu President, Media Ecology Association http://www.media-ecology.org Emiliano Treré wrote:
Hi everyone,
In my PhD dissertation I'm focusing on the relations between social movements and the media, especially the Internet. I need some help in bibliography with regard to two topics: 1. the concept of media environment, mediascape, media ecology, etc. I'm considering the whole media repertoire of activists and not just focus on one specific medium. 2. the conceptualization of Internet not as a simple medium: I need some hints on papers, books and theories addressing the complexity of the Internet as an environment, an ecology that cannot be reduced to a unique technological block.
Thanks a lot. Best, Emiliano Treré
Hi Emiliano, You might find the following websites relevant; http://www.macospol.com/ http://www.govcom.org/ The research papers connected to these projects relate to political/social movements and issue networks online. There's also some interesting work on techniques of visualising issue networks through mapping hyperlinks etc. All the best, Liam Liam Berriman PhD Student Department of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW 2010/2/17 Emiliano Treré <emiliano.trere@uniud.it>
Hi everyone,
In my PhD dissertation I'm focusing on the relations between social movements and the media, especially the Internet. I need some help in bibliography with regard to two topics: 1. the concept of media environment, mediascape, media ecology, etc. I'm considering the whole media repertoire of activists and not just focus on one specific medium. 2. the conceptualization of Internet not as a simple medium: I need some hints on papers, books and theories addressing the complexity of the Internet as an environment, an ecology that cannot be reduced to a unique technological block.
Thanks a lot. Best, Emiliano Treré
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I assume you would have already looked at Bonnie Nardi & Vicki O'Days seminal work in this area. Nardi, B. and V. L. O'Day (1999). Information Ecologies: Using technology with heart. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. You may also want to review what's been done in the area of cybergeography There would be plenty of recent work on the complexity of overlapping internet geographies, but some early work is helpful, such as Thomas Parke Hughes _Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930_ Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61) (0)438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ "Darker Shades of Royal" Exhibition Opening SAT 27 Feb. 2 PM Northern Rivers Community Arts Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina NSW 2478 --- On Thu, 18/2/10, Emiliano Treré <emiliano.trere@uniud.it> wrote:
Hi Emiliano, I am currently in the beginning of my PhD dissertation which will be focusing on media ecology of internet environment(s). I rely heavily on Matthew Fuller's Media Ecologies -- Material Energies in Art and Technology. (MIT Press 2005) and new materialism / post-structural theories of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. You could also check out Jussi Parikka's Digital Contagions - A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (Peter Lang 2007). Media Ecology is one of his approaches. Moreover it would be nice to be in contact with you and people working with this topic in the future. Best, Tero 2010/2/18 Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com>
I assume you would have already looked at Bonnie Nardi & Vicki O'Days seminal work in this area.
Nardi, B. and V. L. O'Day (1999). Information Ecologies: Using technology with heart. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.
You may also want to review what's been done in the area of cybergeography
There would be plenty of recent work on the complexity of overlapping internet geographies, but some early work is helpful, such as Thomas Parke Hughes _Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930_
Cheers, Denise
Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61) (0)438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ "Darker Shades of Royal" Exhibition Opening SAT 27 Feb. 2 PM Northern Rivers Community Arts Gallery, 44 Cherry Street, Ballina NSW 2478
--- On Thu, 18/2/10, Emiliano Treré <emiliano.trere@uniud.it> wrote:
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Denise N. Rall -
Emiliano Treré -
Janet Sternberg -
Jessie Daniels -
Liam Berriman -
Tero Karppi