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This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with critical questions in new media scholarship. General readers, curious about how technologies are enabling social, public and civic participation, will enjoy the book's mix of fresh approaches and insights.

This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with critical questions in new media scholarship. General readers, curious about how technologies are enabling social, public and civic participation, will enjoy the book's mix of fresh approaches and insights

This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with critical questions in new media scholarship. General readers, curious about how technologies are enabling social, public and civic participation, will enjoy the book's mix of fresh approaches and insights.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Content -- References -- Introduction: Semiotics of Cultures and Cultural Sciences -- I.1. The renewal of Saussurism -- I.1.1. Saussure's boldness -- I.1.2. Critique of models -- I.1.3. Semiological issues -- I.2. The need for structuralism -- I.2.1. Structuralism and morphological thinking -- I.2.2. Generic structures and genetic operations -- I.3. Logic, morphology and semiotic organon -- I.4. Semiosis -- I.5. The question of interdisciplinarity -- I.6. Mutual aid between sciences -- I.7. References -- PART 1: Semiotic Foundations of the Cultural Sciences -- 1. Cassirer and Symbolic Forms -- 1.1. Unity and diversity of modes of objectification -- 1.1.1. Modes of objectification in the transcendental tradition -- 1.1.2. The geometric objectification crisis -- 1.2. The harmonics of forms: internalization and exportation -- 1.2.1. Interdisciplinarity of the transformation group concept -- 1.2.2. Beyond the transformation group -- 1.3. From the social sciences to the natural sciences and back again: the example of statistics -- 1.3.1. The internal historical transformation of the statistical paradigm -- 1.3.2. Back to social sciences -- 1.4. Conclusion -- 1.5. References -- 2. Leroi-Gourhan and the Birth of the Symbolic Function -- 2.1. The image of man -- 2.2. The human body -- 2.3. The hand and the tool -- 2.4. Technique and language -- 2.5. Language and visualization -- 2.6. Memory and history -- 2.8. References -- 3. Simondon, Language and Technology -- 3.1. The precedence of technology over language -- 3.2. Simondon's technological vocabulary -- 3.3. For a diagram of the technical lineages -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 3.5. References -- PART 2: Hermeneutics of Science, Hermeneutical Sciences.

Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Some Theoretical Incursions; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Part II: Representing People through Music; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Part III: Music and Social Order; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part IV: Music as Exchange; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Part V: Applying Knowledge; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Contributors

Quantum Electronics was a Brazilian startup in the 1990's that was acquired by an American equity fund in 2012. They are currently the largest manufacturer of vehicle tracking and infotainment systems. The company was founded by three college friends, who are currently executives at the company: Camilo Santos, Pedro Barbosa and Luana Correa. Edward Hutter was sent by the equity fund to take over the company's finances, but is having trouble making organizational decisions with his colleagues. As a consultant, I was called to help them improve their decision making process and project prioritization. I adapted and deployed our firm's methodology, but, in the end, its adequacy is shown to be very much in question. The author of this case study intends to explore how actual organizational decisions rely on different decision models and their assumptions, .as well as demonstrate that a decision model is neither absolutely good nor bad as its quality is context dependent.

This article builds on the earlier notion of a visual ethnography (PINK, 2007a) to suggest the idea of a visual ethnography in/of movement. Recent anthropological discussions have drawn attention to the importance of studying other people's "routes and mobilities" (LEE & INGOLD, 2006). Following this work I examine what visual ethnographers might learn from an analysis of how routes and mobilities are represented in local visual culture. Drawing on my recent research about the Cittàslow (Slow City) movement in the UK, I analyse a series of locally produced experiential, audiovisual and photographic narratives. I propose that such a focus can provide visual ethnographers with significant understandings of how place is made.

Abstract: Two dominant, contrasting, narratives characterise public discourse on queer sexualities in Cape Town. On the one hand, the city is touted as the gay capital of South Africa. This, however, is troubled by a binary framing of white zones of safety and black zones of danger (Melanie JUDGE, 2018), which simultaneously brings the 'the black lesbian' into view through the lens of discrimination, violence and death. This article explores lesbian, queer and gay women's narratives of their everyday lives in Cape Town. Their counter narratives reveal how they 'make' Cape Town home in relation to racialized and classed heteronormativies. These grey the racialised binary of territorial safety and danger, and produce modes of lesbian constructions of home, notably the modes of embedded lesbianism, homonormativity and borderlands. These reveal lesbian queer life worlds which are ephemeral, contingent and fractured, making known hybrid, contrasting and competing narratives of the city.