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Developing Communities and Collections with New Media and Information Literacy [PDF]
As part of its many functions, the reference library is charged with developing both its collection and its user community. These two functions are sometimes pursued as separate initiatives (with separate funding) by library managers. In Australia, the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is committed to an exciting policy of simultaneous collection ...
Jerry Watkins, Angelina Russo
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Museums, New Media Art, Documentation and Collection [PDF]
CRUMB, the research centre CRUMB (http://www.crumbweb.org) at the University of Sunderland in the UK, has a deep interest in how the 'behaviours' of new media art, such as connectivity, computivity and interaction, present opportunities and challenges for curators.
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New Media in Old Cities: The Emergence of the New Collective
This paper takes a look at the relationship between informational space and territory. It questions the common dichotomy that positions virtual space in opposition to physical space. It focuses on the different roles modern urban actors play in defining a new understanding of space as an inseparable composition of both the virtual and the physical ...
Ampatzidou, Cristina, Molenda, Ania
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The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection
This article introduces the New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) special collection (https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/collection/2912) created on behalf of the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries and hosted by the UK Web Archive. It is divided into two sections, presenting the perspectives of the archivists and the organizers of the prize respectively.
Giulia Carla Rossi +4 more
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Conviviality and collectives on social media: Virality, memes, and new social structures
There is a long tradition in which 'phatic' forms of interaction are seen as (and characterized by) relatively low levels of 'information' and 'meaning'. Yet, observations on social media interaction patterns show an amazing density of such phatic interactions, in which signs are shared and circulated without an a priori determination of the meaning ...
Varis, Piia, Blommaert, Jan
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Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web
We present the first full description of Media Cloud, an open source platform based on crawling hyperlink structure in operation for over 10 years, that for many uses will be the best way to collect data for studying the media ecosystem on the open web.
Roberts, Hal +17 more
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Indigenous Movements, Collective Action, and Social Media: New Opportunities or New Threats? [PDF]
Indigenous peoples remain among the most marginalized population groups in the Americas. The decline of the Indigenous protest cycle in Latin America by the mid-2000s meant that research on collective action turned elsewhere just as the use of social media was becoming more prominent in the tactical repertoire of collective action, and we know little ...
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Collecting and preserving new media art in Portugal
The current investigation aims to focus on how New Media Art is collected and preserved in Portugal, a pioneer research on a country where this artistic practice is well established but there’s no studies regarding it’s preservation. The research is orientated by both general and more specific goals.
Direito, Eva, Sá, Cristina
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The Assisting Collectivities of Young Migrants and Nonmigrants via New Media
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Juchniewicz, Natalia, Grabowska, Izabela
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Digital Culture, New Media and The Transformation of Collective Memory
Along with the advent of digital technologies, modern and “semimodern” societies met a new phase of temporality. Speed, mobility and globality epitomise the fundamental characteristics of this process. New media, as a form of communication that consist of “digitality, interactivity and hypertextuality”, enable the genesis of a new memory culture in ...
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