A blog, by common definition, is an online diary in which one can choose to publish publicly his entries. A blog is basically a logging of things (ideas, opinions, reviews, anything) on the Web with the addition of comments, a history of posts and a junction of links that point to other blogs (Talbot in [...]
Category Archives: Research
Commodization of Simulacra
October 25, 2007 – 1:33 pm
Japanese celebrities have in the figure of the jimusho the organization working to ‘restructure’ and formalize their exchange relations with fans, controlling what is ought to be consumed and commercially explored by third parties that have no relation with the public figure of the celebrity. As a matter of fact, while constructions of the entertainment [...]
Communion and Ritual
October 12, 2007 – 9:53 am
With all the interaction and democracy (in some cases the hyper about democratization of information without further analysis on socio-economical differences in the world panorama has driven the Internet aficionados to create what I came to call ‘democrazy’, a term that extorts all debates from democracy in the Web and simply flats all the socio-economical [...]
Communion and Intentionality as a Blog’s Marketing Tools
October 5, 2007 – 1:09 am
The marketing behind Japanese celebrities’ blogs is more than just building personal websites, Japanese blogs, as any other media, are filled with an intentionality that have behind them the planning and structure of the jimusho, the agents backing the celebrities. However big and well structure a blog and its marketing could be, still the participation [...]
The ‘Labeling’ of Japanese Celebrities’ Blogs
October 4, 2007 – 1:03 am
The labeling of celebrities, as it says, it is not an arbitrary act and it is not a creation of the audience but of the Japanese media. In Japanese celebrities’ blogs the labeling exists prior of the blog’s creation and it is a necessary mechanism to delineate the boundaries which will shape the blog itself, [...]
メディア社会
August 31, 2007 – 7:01 pm
多様な視点からの議論があるが、既存の社会を飛び超えた科学技術の影響は、いかなる空想科学小説をも凌ぎ、私たちの日常生活に静かに革命をもたらしつつあるのは事実であろう。すでに複数の研究者が述べているように、メディアは、人々を分離させるのではなく、寄せ集めるために作用している。
インターネット使用者「2002年、インターネット使用者の人数は約６億５００万人となり-2002 World Population Data Sheet」が増加するに従い、ヴァーチャルな関係は、より複雑で凝った表現方法を追い求めている。この要求に伴い、インスタント·メッセンジャーやチャット·ルームにおけるヴァーチャルな環境において、相互作用の中で演じる人々の情感・表現・表情を表現するコードが作り出された（Levy 2000）。これらのシンボルは、感情や意図を埋め込んでいるグラフィックなシグナルを表現するアルファニューメリックな字体に記号化されている。このコードは、「emoticons（顔符号）」―「emotion」と「icons」の合成語―として、ウェブ会議やチャット·ルームの使用者によく知られている。
最近、高速で質の高い接続により、２人以上によるビデオ／音声オンライン会議を可能とするプログラムの人気がますます高まっている。そういったプログラムは、インターネット上で無料で入手でき、世界の広い範囲で使用されている。
ビデオ·チャットを取り上げることにより相手と顔を合わせて話すことができると、なぜ他の何者かに扮することが難しいのかを理解でき、また、チャットで作成された文書にのみ集中した過去の研究で示された共通の問題についても容易に理解できると考える。 ある研究者たちは、人々が嘘を言い、彼らのプライバシーの保持を優先させ、ヴァーチャルな相互作用と科学技術は社会的相互作用にとって有害であるとも語っている。
Roles, Interaction and Hyperreality
August 17, 2007 – 5:36 pm
To understand the interactions among individuals within a communication process, it is first essential to understand the individual behavior itself and the functions of each part involved in the process. From this standpoint, it is possible to understand that the image shown on camera is indeed an important part of ‘life’ in video chat rooms, [...]
Flirting with the Audience
August 11, 2007 – 8:05 pm
A medium can’t survive without audience, as a matter of fact; all media exist in function to an audience. It is this audience that justifies the existence of the medium and foments its production process and reproduction of its information through other media. The modern concept of celebrity is totally ‘media dependent’. As a [...]
Blog?
August 1, 2007 – 1:35 pm
A blog, by common definition is an online diary where its author can chose to publish publicly or not his entries. A blog is basically a logging of things (ideas, opinions, reviews, anything) on the Web with the addition of comments, a history of posts and a junction of links that point to other blogs [...]
Ghosts, goblins, haunted houses and “Silent Hill”
July 2, 2007 – 2:12 am
Ghosts, goblins, haunted houses and “Silent Hill 2”
A collective unconscious approach of horror and terror inside games.
by Aristides Emmanuel Pereira
Scary bits of nothing
Understanding from where the taste for frightening stories comes from is as hard as trying to define why horror is so popular nowadays.
It is a fact that stories where ghosts and haunted places [...]
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