Contemporary Culture/Digital Culture

This study aims to throw lights on the phenomena of self-broadcast videos, focusing on the distance between author and the character presented on screen, on how such videos may be perceived by society and on collateral implications of this communication. In order to do that, YouTube was selected as the medium, and among YouTube users, the user Magibon was selected.


The phenomenon broadcasted by Magibon is in the eye of the storm of the miracle society is experiencing in Post-YouTube Era of self-broadcast. The “Hello, World!” message is (and it always is) accompanied by a full set of attached/embedded messages and for many reasons Magibon stands out as an icon — and official partner — of such phenomena, which provoke, amazes and disturbs the audience.

Paratextual information as a mystery-solving device? Is the director's hand an agent of paratexts and interventions? The Deus Ex Machina trick Haneke played on the spectators on Caché tells more than meets the eye: the transition from modernist to postmodern cinema/audiovisual, and the understanding of how the focus has changed from one “era” to another is essential to understand how new media can be perceived on contemporary society.

Preceeding my paratextual studies, this essay intent is to throw some lights on the ideas of immediation, hypermediation and remediation. Mediation and other derivatives are widely discussed topics nowadays,
usually referred to Bolter and Grusin’s book Remediation: Understanding New Media.

Published at University of Jyväskylä (MA thesis)
and FAM Simpósio, Internatial Festival of Art and Media.

This work aims to describe and analyze the concept of tagnovels, developed as a digital literature project in the website NEOCRONICA (http://www.neocronica.org). In order to do that, some archeology of the scenario has been made, firstly providing some information on what is digital literature and how it differs from “conventional” literature.

In this paper, a brief History of Search Engines and Google will be presented, as some example of uses of Google for art purposes. Some ideas on how Neocronica GoogleArt work function in relation to computer-human interaction will be presented as well, and hopefully with throw some lights on how the computer and human input work. Finally, some viewer experience of the work piece will be presented, constituting an essay about the work piece.

The IRC (Internet-Relay Chat) tool has been more popular among brazilian Internet us-ers,
although it is still popular worldwide. IRC is a free tool, compatible with any lan-guage and
it can be used in any personal computer connected to the world-wide web. IRC gathers
users in conversation channels, created by them. Some of these channels has specific
topics related to knowledge – therefore, communities of knowledge with specific
characteristics. This study is an attempt to introduce the Academic environment to the IRC
tool through the analysis of the channels #filosofia from IRC server BrasNet and
#philosophy, from Undernet.
Keywords: IRC – Internet Relay Chat – Communities of Knowledge – Chats – Cyberculture
– Internet.

Entre ações precisas, doses de humor negro e imagens que abrem cavernas no inconsciente, o livro leva a certa perplexidade e, ao mesmo tempo, profunda lucidez. (...) Como uma epifania que se fecha aos poucos, como as possibilidades que se entopem pela areia do tempo, o thriller alucinatório de Capricórnia também se completa. Recomende aos amigos M i

Why? What is motivating us? What are the outcomes of our writing experiences? How to improve them? How to enable and empower young writers, students or independent artists to write more and better? What are the challenges? The activity of writing has been observed in this eBook from, mainly, two different perspectives: writing, self and discovery, on a predominantly institutional level, and writing as craft, with focus on text and writing practice. The division seems simple, but the variety of articles cover a wide range of subjects within the topic, creating interesting overviews – writing starts with writing instruction, progresses to discovery of the text, and this stage progresses frequently, as shown in the articles, as journeys of discovery and self-discovery.

This article discusses what is an author in social media. It questions the distinction between “average user” and “famous author”, and analyzes the content of Twitter accounts of such authors, classifying them between personal, public and authorial. Furthermore, this division generates a possible way of classifying authorial text, considering space, publicity and content itself. The debate also considers if we, the social media users, are all authors and, if so, what are we authoring.

Perceiving social media activity as performance, the traditional approach to social media studies, explains a series of motives behind such activities: the construction of an online persona, the use of the medium as a stage for this construction and the role of others in the spectacle (both as actors and audience). It does not encompass, however, the textual aspect of it. On the other hand, an authorship approach to the topic could help us to understand the actual tools for the construction of goffmanean’s character or persona. With Goffman’s approach it is possible to answer questions regarding the motivation for writing in social media. Finally, Foucault’s ideas on the very act of writing in ancient Greco-Roman society will help to understand the effects of writing in that society. Combining these fields, an interdisciplinary approach hopefully may shed light on the purposes and consequences of writing in social media.

The object of this article is to map correspondences between the literacy of books and the literacy of online video platforms, in order to create common ground between both media and assist transmedia storytellers in the task of exploring video platforms with in-depth knowledge of each textual element surrounding video content.
The article proposes a comprehensive categorization and typification of surrounding information in the standard video pages of YouTube and Vimeo, using Gerard Genette’s theory of paratexts as a basic framework.
The analysis found that the interplay between paratextual elements, the audience feedback, the replication and embedding culture and the absence of endorsement from authors to paratexts created by third parties constitutes a scenario of intense paratextual relevance in a culture radically different from print media. Furthermore, in the given scenario, the reader has an interesting new role: his/her activity log produces a new intertextuality, making the social media user himself/herself a new text that binds other texts together.

Na nossa mídia de massa, Brasil e brasileiros são retratados por três lentes principais, todas elas irremediavelmente distorcidas. Esse triclope midiático inclui grande parte -- ao menos, a parte que mais aparece -- da televisão, do cinema, da literatura mais abrangente e até do imenso Instagram coletivo que dá corpo à hashtag #Brasil. São elas: a lente do estrangeiro, a lente para o estrangeiro, e a lente que tem como fotógrafo e fotografado essa coletividade que chamamos de nós mesmos (na Europa, se chamaria povo. No Brasil, não).

Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are often seen as having of embedded deep cultural aspects from the world outside of it . It is by recognizing those aspects that players relate to games, and therefore establishing their own view about the game world and its culture . The game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda, 2013) has nord culture as a main element within its general narrative. Especially from literature available in the game, it is possible to understand what the narratives around the concept of nord are. From this framework, this paper will pursue the concept of Nord suggested by the game Skyrim. I will analyse fictional literature available in the game. This will allow me a close look into the "local culture" of the game world, as well as what elements present Skyrim's concept of Nord culture. As a method of inquiry for this paper I will use distant reading .

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