This catalogue accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, a premier contemporary art venue focusing on new media and technologies. Curated by the Brazilian media artist Marcus Bastos, the exhibition brings together several young Brazilian artists who explore the uses and possibilities of cell phones and mobile networks, exploiting the inherent fracturing of spaces and languages to create new spatial and semiotic relations. Artists include Lucas Bambozzi, Giselle Beiguelman, Nacho Durán, Mauricio Fleury, Raquel Kogan, Rafael Marchetti, Rachel Rosalen, and Lea van Steen. There is also an essay by Paul Alzugaray.
Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.
This book seeks to bring together different philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of human mobility within the discipline of geography. With five thematic sections – conceptualizing and analyzing mobility, inequalities of mobility, politics of mobility, decentering mobility, and qualifying abstraction – and 27 substantive chapters by leading researchers in the field, it provides a comprehensive overview of the latest thinking about human mobility and related issues. The contributors discuss mobility issues as diverse as everyday mobilities of young people, migrants and refugees, and sex workers; the relationships between citizenship and mobility; and the potential and pitfalls of big data for understanding mobility. This, coupled with a broad international focus, means that Geographies of Mobility will not only encourage and enrich dialogue on a theme that is of major importance to varied geographic research communities, but will also be of great interest to students and researchers across the wider social sciences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate these expectations with the freedom and pleasures reserved for the Third Age. Work is what bonds this community together, providing a sense of dignity and citizenship. Smartphones have become of great importance to the residents as they search for and engage in new forms of work and hobbies. Connected by a digital network, they work as content curators, sharing activities that fill their schedule. Managing multiple WhatsApp groups is a job in itself, as well as a source of solidarity and hope. Friendship groups help each to download new apps, search for medical information and guidance, and navigate the city. Together, they are reinventing themselves as volunteers, entrepreneurs and influencers, or they are finding a new interest that gives their later life a purpose. The smartphone, which enables the residents to share and discuss their busy lives, is also helping them, and us, to rethink the very representation of ageing.
Na primeira década do século XXI, o pensamento e a produção da fotografia foram alterados pela disseminação das câmeras digitais, da circulação das imagens via internet e dos softwares de pós-produção. Assim, a fotografia ganhou crescente espaço nas grandes mostras de arte pelo mundo e no mercado de arte. Nossa cultura antropofágica mostrou-se um processo potente para gerar uma fotografia vibrante que passou a ser pesquisada e divulgada por curadores e instituições do mundo inteiro. Este livro de referência apresenta 52 expoentes brasileiros neste cenário. Este ebook traz imagens que são melhor visualizadas em tablets. In the first decade of this century, thought and photography production have been changed by the popularization of digital cameras, images shared through internet and post-production software. Thus, photography increased its space in the big world of art exhibitions and market. Brazilian anthropophagic culture proved to be a powerful process to create a vibrant photography production that became object of research and propagation by curators and institutions worldwide. This reference book presents 52 brazilian exponents of this scenario. This ebook contains images that are best viewed on tablets.
Chronicles the history of the premier guitar maker and its Fender models from 1950 to 2000, profiling such instruments as the Telecaster, Stratocaster, and Precision Bass, while punctuating its timeline with musical highlights. Original.
This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disseminate, and access knowledge. Worldwide, mobile internet access has surpassed desktop access, and it is estimated that by 2022 there will be AN excess of 6 billion mobile phone users in the world. This widespread proliferation raises all sorts of questions around who creates knowledge, how is that knowledge shared and proliferated, and what are the structural political, economic, and legal conditions in which knowledge is accessed. The practices and power dynamics around mobile technologies are location specific. They look different depending on whether one chooses to highlight the legal, social, political, or economic context. Bringing together scholars, journalists, activists and practitioners from around the world, this book embraces this complexity, providing a multifaceted picture that acknowledges the tensions and contradictions surrounding accessing knowledge through mobile technologies. With case studies from Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Syria, Egypt, Botswana, Brazil, and the US, this book provides an important account of the changing nature of our access to knowledge, and is key reading for students, researchers, activists and policy makers with an interest in technology and access to knowledge, communication, social transformation, and global development.
