Coisas e Coisas
"The text seeks to understand the relationship between means of communication and transportation in society and stresses the impact of new electronic devices on people’s lives and, especially, on their holidays and free time. Having as a base the empirical observation and the readings already done, my text stems from two ideas as theoretical hypothesis, the first one being that people, while on a nomadic life during their holidays, do not abandon routine tasks such as checking their email. The second one is that, in spite of the fact that the postmodern idea of global village means similarity, each place is different, which makes people travel to know them. Although unable to produce a scientific confirmation, due to the casual and superficial contact with reality, I detected two types in the observation: short connection time, use of computer for useful purposes (email, social networks). Besides the computer, which they carried in hand, indicating that they were going from their place of residence during the holidays to the café, people used the mobile phone. Thus, the esplanade, the café and the garden become places that are also virtual, of contact not only with the people who are sitting at a table or bench, but equally around the world, prolonging the idea of public space in Habermas (1984). For me, communication and transportation follow distinct but close lines. The starting questions for this text are: which developments in transportation and communications? Which permanent reconfigurations in the two activities? In the 21st century, which are the most important: those in transportation or in media? If the media adopted the possibilities of transportation (mobility, speed), what is the impact? To pursue with an analysis, I evoke curious events from the history of Portuguese media, from my investigation in the area, and recognise the theoretical debt owed to texts by Carey (1992) and Urry (2003, 2010)" (paper presented at 6th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus (CGC), Conference Neglected Media, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 2011; view full paper here).
- Radio As A Neglected Media
Tina Kawooya presented a paper on radio: The FM radio a vital necessity in Uganda and a neglected media in Canada. For her, the radio is a neglected medium in the West (and also in Canada) in the 21st century, because television and the Internet are the...
- Call For Papers "neglected Media "
Neglected Media. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Call for Papers Date: 2011-01-17. Date Submitted: 2010-11-29 Neglected Media Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 10-11, 2011 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lisa Nakamura (Director of the Asian...
- Call For Papers On Structural Changes In Journalism (brasilia, April 2011)
1st International Colloquium on Structural Changes in Journalism (MEJOR – 2011). Venue: University of Brasilia. Brasília, DF – Brazil. Date: 25 to 28 April 2011. Realization: Faculty of Communication, University of Brasilia (FAC / UnB), with support...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...
- Mass Media And Communication In The New Millennium
At the Moscow State University department of journalism, international journalists will meet at an event entitled "Content, channels and audiences in the new millennium: interaction and interrelations". The programme committee is headed by professor Y....
Coisas e Coisas
Media, transportation and society: reflections on their transformations
"The text seeks to understand the relationship between means of communication and transportation in society and stresses the impact of new electronic devices on people’s lives and, especially, on their holidays and free time. Having as a base the empirical observation and the readings already done, my text stems from two ideas as theoretical hypothesis, the first one being that people, while on a nomadic life during their holidays, do not abandon routine tasks such as checking their email. The second one is that, in spite of the fact that the postmodern idea of global village means similarity, each place is different, which makes people travel to know them. Although unable to produce a scientific confirmation, due to the casual and superficial contact with reality, I detected two types in the observation: short connection time, use of computer for useful purposes (email, social networks). Besides the computer, which they carried in hand, indicating that they were going from their place of residence during the holidays to the café, people used the mobile phone. Thus, the esplanade, the café and the garden become places that are also virtual, of contact not only with the people who are sitting at a table or bench, but equally around the world, prolonging the idea of public space in Habermas (1984). For me, communication and transportation follow distinct but close lines. The starting questions for this text are: which developments in transportation and communications? Which permanent reconfigurations in the two activities? In the 21st century, which are the most important: those in transportation or in media? If the media adopted the possibilities of transportation (mobility, speed), what is the impact? To pursue with an analysis, I evoke curious events from the history of Portuguese media, from my investigation in the area, and recognise the theoretical debt owed to texts by Carey (1992) and Urry (2003, 2010)" (paper presented at 6th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus (CGC), Conference Neglected Media, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 2011; view full paper here).
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- Radio As A Neglected Media
Tina Kawooya presented a paper on radio: The FM radio a vital necessity in Uganda and a neglected media in Canada. For her, the radio is a neglected medium in the West (and also in Canada) in the 21st century, because television and the Internet are the...
- Call For Papers "neglected Media "
Neglected Media. Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Call for Papers Date: 2011-01-17. Date Submitted: 2010-11-29 Neglected Media Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 10-11, 2011 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lisa Nakamura (Director of the Asian...
- Call For Papers On Structural Changes In Journalism (brasilia, April 2011)
1st International Colloquium on Structural Changes in Journalism (MEJOR – 2011). Venue: University of Brasilia. Brasília, DF – Brazil. Date: 25 to 28 April 2011. Realization: Faculty of Communication, University of Brasilia (FAC / UnB), with support...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...
- Mass Media And Communication In The New Millennium
At the Moscow State University department of journalism, international journalists will meet at an event entitled "Content, channels and audiences in the new millennium: interaction and interrelations". The programme committee is headed by professor Y....