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- Curated lives: smartphones as tools of control, anticipation and avoidancePublication . Ganito, Carla
- Digital games as safe places: the case of animal crossingPublication . Ferreira, Cátia; Ganito, Carla; Gonçalves, SoraiaDigital games have become a popular cultural pastime and a profitable media industry, with an average player age of 32. During the lockdown years, the many facets of digital games came to light, particularly their capacity to encourage the development of safe spaces for interaction and communities. Games that encourage creativity and content creation, like Second Life, Animal Crossing, and Minecraft, for example, give users a variety of safe spaces to express themselves and grow creatively. The article addresses the function of video games as safe spaces using a mixed-methods approach, emphasizing the role played during the pandemic and using Animal Crossing as an example. Three primary techniques for gathering data were an online survey, netnography, and document analysis. Through the Animal Crossing: New Horizons case study, we were able to confirm that players do, in fact, view the game as more than just a way to pass the time. They make expressive and proactive use of it, deriving immense pleasure from producing and disseminating content that is uniquely personalized for them. It is a tool for escapism and provides a feeling of belonging to players who agree that the New Horizons Fan Community is a united, helpful, caring, and generous community.
- Digital reading: the transformation of reading practicesPublication . Cardoso, Gustavo; Ganito, Carla; Ferreira, CátiaThe paper aims to present the preliminary results of a two-year project having as scope the future of the book and libraries stemming from the current reading practices in Portugal. In the scope of the project, the presentation of the findings will be focused on the mobile consumption practices in Portugal. This research is based on a mixed methodology: a quantitative survey – Network Society in Portugal – articulated with a qualitative analysis of the discourses of the representatives of what Thompson calls the publishing chain (librarians, publishing houses, authors, and content and soft/hardware providers). To understand the impact of mobile devices on reading practices is crucial for libraries and publishing houses. Mobile devices offer augmented mobility – a mobility that is connected, networked and collaborative. Although the hype is currently around eBooks, we are still faced with a market where the vast majority still reads books on paper. The sales of devices have exploded but eBooks are lagging behind. What do people use their tablets, iPads, and eReaders for? What are they reading and where? How do they articulate their readings with other media and cultural consumptions? Those are the central questions that we are aiming at answering.
- Empatia pós-humana: a tentativa de ‘ver’ digitalmente pelos olhos do outroPublication . Ganito, Carla; Mauro, Ana Paula; Ferreira, CátiaTem-se por objetivo relacionar a condição pós-humana e as funções imaginativas que regem a empatia, a transitar para o que denominamos por empatia pós-humana. Através de uma circunscrição do conceito de empatia associado às narrativas não-ficcionais tecnologicamente imersivas, nomeadamente, o jornalismo imersivo e os web-documentários, confrontamos o conceito de imaginação pós- humana de Wellner (2018) e procuramos aprofundar o quanto o discurso do “dispositivo empático RV”, que simula o mundo do outro, significa uma intenção de externalizar mais uma ação que outrora foi exclusivamente humana.
- Entrevista a Gilles LipovetskyPublication . Ganito, Carla; Maurício, Ana FabíolaGilles Lipovetsky, filósofo e professor da Universidade de Grenoble, é o autor de A Era do Vazio [1983] e A Terceira Mulher [1997], entre várias outras obras. A presente entrevista decorreu em Lisboa, durante a conferência «A Cultura Planetária na Era Hipermoderna», realizada na Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Este encontro deu-se por ocasião do lançamento do seu novo livro O Ecrã Global, em co-autoria com Jean Serroy, em Março de 2010.
- Mapping digital magazines: reading as a practice of disconnectionPublication . Ferreira, Cátia; Ganito, CarlaIn a time of ubiquitous and permanent access to the internet made available to more and more people, emergent research has focused on audiences’ practices to disconnect from the internet (Kaun et al., 2014), to go offline and to remove their presence and visibility from online spaces (Light & Cassidy, 2014). From criticism on digital media to acts of refusal such as closing accounts on SNS or abstention from use have been understood “as a performative mode of resistance” (PortwoodStacer, 2012: 1041; Woodstock, 2014). Critical thinkers have highlighted the ways in which digital industries incite participation and production by audiences and some such as Carr (2010) and Turkle (2011) have gone further to criticize the impact of permanent connection, namely on reading practices. The paper aims at mapping people’s practices of disconnecting as a form of resistance, and initiatives that offer offline spaces. In the new digital ecosystem, staying ON seems to be, at the surface, the most effective strategy to engage with the audience. This is especially true for the media and other creative industries, that suffered in the last years an abrupt adaptation to the digital environment and depend highly on social media to disseminate their work. However, the ON formula doesn’t suit all. Staying OFF social media is also a clear strategy for some media and creative industries. Monocle, the worldwide awarded British magazine, is an emblematic example. It doesn’t have a Facebook or Twitter account because it would mean to give content for free. Keeping in mind that the magazine has a legion of fans and is profitable for over eight years, this strategy deserves some thought. Another recent example is Disconnect Magazine that can only be read offline. To pursue this objective, we will use a mixed method approach, combining case-studies of initiatives of digital disconnection with a discourse analyses of readers.
- Mecanismos de construção de género na inclusão e participação digital: o caso do telemóvelPublication . Ganito, CarlaEste artigo visa contribuir para um melhor entendimento da forma como as novas tecnologias digitais e pessoais, como o telemóvel, estão a mudar a relação que as mulheres estabelecem com a tecnologia. A mobilidade tornou-se o contexto de vida e, dessa forma, temos que compreender as questões de género em articulação com a mobilidade. O telemóvel é uma tecnologia particularmente interessante para analisar do ponto de vista dos estudos de género porque, ao contrário de outras como o computador ou a internet, tem sido adoptado quase equitativamente por homens e mulheres. No entanto, igualdade de acesso não é igualdade de uso ou igualdade de inclusão. Os números das taxas de adopção de homens e mulheres são similares mas as diferenças existem nos usos e nos contextos. Recorrendo a uma metodologia mista, o artigo procura identificar estas diferenças e avaliar o potencial do telemóvel como ferramenta da inclusão digital para as mulheres.
- Moving time and juggling spheresPublication . Ganito, CarlaWe define ourselves as human beings within a certain time and space context. These dimensions are now being transformed as our experience is mediated by mobile technologies. But how is this transformation occurring in women’s lives? Are women allowed a more comprehensive management of their time? This research, focusing on time, is theoretically grounded in the more recent feminist debates, identifying cultural representation and discourse as important carriers of the gender system. This work has opted for a qualitative dominant mixed method, designed to answer the question: what is the meaning of the mobile phone for women at different stages in their life trajectories? The paper argues that the role women play in society is determinant in their use of the mobile phone.
- As mulheres e os telemóveis: uma relação por explorarPublication . Ganito, CarlaNeste artigo, pretende-se, a partir de uma revisão da literatura, apresentar uma análise, sob uma perspectiva funcionalista e assente nos conceitos-chave de McLuhan, dos «usos» e «gratificações» do telemóvel condicionados pelo género. Esta tem sido uma variável subestimada pelos investigadores e pela indústria, na sua oferta de produtos e serviços, e que, no entanto, pode ajudar a identificar a futura evolução deste media. O artigo pretende evidenciar o esquecimento de que as mulheres têm sido objecto, enquanto público-alvo e utilizadoras das comunicações móveis. Procura-se igualmente identificar as diferenças de apropriação entre homens e mulheres.
- Serialized participatory culture: the digital transformation of youth audiencesPublication . Ganito, Carla; Burnay, Catarina Duff; Ferreira, CátiaDigital technologies are transforming audiences and media practices. In a context of serialization this paper wants to make the case for television series as much of the attention from the industry and the academy is drawn by music and cinema neglecting the effects on television viewing. Lawrence Lessig has proposed “remix” as one of the main outcomes of social and cultural practices enabled by new technologies that allow for easy production and sharing. Henry Jenkins talks of a "convergence culture" and many other authors refer a participatory turn. But this surge of creativity and participation poses new challenges to the industry and to the study of audiences. With the surge of transmediality and new platforms such as mobile phones and tablets, as well as enabling tools for massified DYI, the experience of television series consumption has been completely changed. This is particularly notable in youth audiences where television is still pervasive but networked media practices are gaining ground, namely a serialized participation culture characterized by immediacy, anticipation, control, emotional affordance and freedom. Based in a mixed methodology, composed of a quantitative online survey and a qualitative focus group approach, this paper will offer a case study of Portuguese College students’ serialized participatory culture regarding television series.