Göran Bolin
Göran Bolin is Professor in Media & Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. He presently heads research on Social Media Surveillance and Experiences of Authoritarianism and has a longstanding interest in the implications of digitization and datafication.
His publications include Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (Ashgate, 2011), Media Generations: Experience, Identity and Mediatised Social Change (Routledge 2016), and the co-authored Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society: Retooling Citizenship in New EU Democracies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), and Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution (MIT Press, 2023).
He is a member of Academia Europaea, where he serves as Chair of the section committee for the section Film, Media and Visual Studies. He is Chair of the Association for Media & Communication Researchers in Sweden.
His publications include Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (Ashgate, 2011), Media Generations: Experience, Identity and Mediatised Social Change (Routledge 2016), and the co-authored Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society: Retooling Citizenship in New EU Democracies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), and Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution (MIT Press, 2023).
He is a member of Academia Europaea, where he serves as Chair of the section committee for the section Film, Media and Visual Studies. He is Chair of the Association for Media & Communication Researchers in Sweden.
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the subject of mediatization. The task makes sense since the
UNISINOS’ Communication area, which brought together the
participants of the symposium that gave rise to this collection,
is recognized by studies on mediatization, as a phenomenon
or concept, and concentrates a large part of the production in
the area. José Luiz Braga, Antônio Fausto Neto, Pedro Gilberto
Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira, and Ana Paula da Rosa form a consistent part of the bibliography on the subject, systematically
organize international congresses in which they set in motion
their national and foreign networks of collaborators and specialized interlocutors, in addition to years of supervising dissertations and theses in the area...The result is a book that offers us a considerably high
level to continue the debate on the scope, meaning, and validity of the concept of mediatization. A set of theoretical chapters
leads us to this level, with concept maps and secure cartographies about where we came from and where we are now. But,
also, the careful applications and thought-provoking explorations of new themes and approaches that this collection has also
taken care of ensuring for us." Wilson Gomes, Foreword.
como a maioria dos autores prefere. A tarefa faz sentido, uma
vez que a área de Comunicação da Unisinos, que convocou e reuniu os participantes do simpósio que deu origem à coletânea,
é reconhecida pelos estudos sobre a mediatização, como fenômeno ou conceito, e concentra uma grande parte da produção
brasileira na área. José Luiz Braga, Antonio Fausto Neto, Pedro
Gilberto Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira e Ana Paula da Rosa formam parte consistente da bibliografia sobre o assunto, organizam sistematicamente congressos internacionais em que põem
em movimento suas redes nacionais e estrangeiras de colaboradores e interlocutores especializados, além de orientarem há
anos dissertações e teses na área.... O resultado é um livro que nos oferece um patamar
consideravelmente alto para continuar o debate sobre o alcance,
o sentido e a validade do conceito de mediatização. A este patamar nos conduz um conjunto de capítulos teóricos, com mapas
conceituais e cartografias seguras sobre de onde viemos e onde
nos encontramos agora. Mas também as aplicações cuidadosas
e as instigantes explorações de novos temas e de novas abordagens que esta coletânea também cuidou de nos assegura" Wilson Gomes, Prefácio.
Avoiding popular generational labelling Göran Bolin argues that the totality of the media landscape is a contextual structure that together with age and life-course factors help inform world-views and ways to relate to the wider society that guide the actions of media users. Media Generations demonstrates how - as different generations come of age at different moments in the mediatised historical process - they develop different media habits, but also make sense of the world differently, which informs their relations to older and younger generations.
It also explores how this process of ‘generationing’, that is, the process in which a generation come into being as a self-perceived social identity, partly builds on specific kinds of nostalgia that establishes generational differences and distinctions. This book will be of special interest to those studying social change, collective memory, cultural identity and the role of the media in social experience.
Book download: http://www.medieutredningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SOU_2016_30_webb.pdf
Conference presentation at MEG 2016 in Gothenburg April 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQvs9TMkAM&feature=youtu.be
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
1 Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of Technology Göran Bolin
Part I: Histories of Cultural Technologies
2 The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing Implications of the Image William Uricchio
3 The Compact Disc and Its Culture: Notes on Melancholia Eric Rothenbuhler
4 Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution Mats Björkin
5 Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure Lisa Parks
Part II: Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies
6 Being ‘Accountable’: TV Audiences and Surveillance Toby Miller
7 Time, Space and Clouds of Information: Data Centre Discourse and the Meaning of Durability Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt
8 Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development Elizabeth Van Couvering
9 Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire Sandra Braman
Part III: Uses of Cultural Technologies
10 Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden
11 Virtual Technologies of Nation-States: State Administration in Second Life Stina Bengtsson
12 The Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research Joke Hermes
Notes
Contributors
Index"
Papers by Göran Bolin
the subject of mediatization. The task makes sense since the
UNISINOS’ Communication area, which brought together the
participants of the symposium that gave rise to this collection,
is recognized by studies on mediatization, as a phenomenon
or concept, and concentrates a large part of the production in
the area. José Luiz Braga, Antônio Fausto Neto, Pedro Gilberto
Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira, and Ana Paula da Rosa form a consistent part of the bibliography on the subject, systematically
organize international congresses in which they set in motion
their national and foreign networks of collaborators and specialized interlocutors, in addition to years of supervising dissertations and theses in the area...The result is a book that offers us a considerably high
level to continue the debate on the scope, meaning, and validity of the concept of mediatization. A set of theoretical chapters
leads us to this level, with concept maps and secure cartographies about where we came from and where we are now. But,
also, the careful applications and thought-provoking explorations of new themes and approaches that this collection has also
taken care of ensuring for us." Wilson Gomes, Foreword.
como a maioria dos autores prefere. A tarefa faz sentido, uma
vez que a área de Comunicação da Unisinos, que convocou e reuniu os participantes do simpósio que deu origem à coletânea,
é reconhecida pelos estudos sobre a mediatização, como fenômeno ou conceito, e concentra uma grande parte da produção
brasileira na área. José Luiz Braga, Antonio Fausto Neto, Pedro
Gilberto Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira e Ana Paula da Rosa formam parte consistente da bibliografia sobre o assunto, organizam sistematicamente congressos internacionais em que põem
em movimento suas redes nacionais e estrangeiras de colaboradores e interlocutores especializados, além de orientarem há
anos dissertações e teses na área.... O resultado é um livro que nos oferece um patamar
consideravelmente alto para continuar o debate sobre o alcance,
o sentido e a validade do conceito de mediatização. A este patamar nos conduz um conjunto de capítulos teóricos, com mapas
conceituais e cartografias seguras sobre de onde viemos e onde
nos encontramos agora. Mas também as aplicações cuidadosas
e as instigantes explorações de novos temas e de novas abordagens que esta coletânea também cuidou de nos assegura" Wilson Gomes, Prefácio.
Avoiding popular generational labelling Göran Bolin argues that the totality of the media landscape is a contextual structure that together with age and life-course factors help inform world-views and ways to relate to the wider society that guide the actions of media users. Media Generations demonstrates how - as different generations come of age at different moments in the mediatised historical process - they develop different media habits, but also make sense of the world differently, which informs their relations to older and younger generations.
It also explores how this process of ‘generationing’, that is, the process in which a generation come into being as a self-perceived social identity, partly builds on specific kinds of nostalgia that establishes generational differences and distinctions. This book will be of special interest to those studying social change, collective memory, cultural identity and the role of the media in social experience.
Book download: http://www.medieutredningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SOU_2016_30_webb.pdf
Conference presentation at MEG 2016 in Gothenburg April 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQvs9TMkAM&feature=youtu.be
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
1 Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of Technology Göran Bolin
Part I: Histories of Cultural Technologies
2 The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing Implications of the Image William Uricchio
3 The Compact Disc and Its Culture: Notes on Melancholia Eric Rothenbuhler
4 Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution Mats Björkin
5 Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure Lisa Parks
Part II: Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies
6 Being ‘Accountable’: TV Audiences and Surveillance Toby Miller
7 Time, Space and Clouds of Information: Data Centre Discourse and the Meaning of Durability Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt
8 Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development Elizabeth Van Couvering
9 Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire Sandra Braman
Part III: Uses of Cultural Technologies
10 Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden
11 Virtual Technologies of Nation-States: State Administration in Second Life Stina Bengtsson
12 The Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research Joke Hermes
Notes
Contributors
Index"