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Hyper-Exploitation in the Hacker Movement
In this book, Yılmaz Alışkan discusses the capitalist exploitation of digital media and examines how free time and creativity can be exploited in open source communities, with corporations often benefiting from community-generated knowledge. Focusing on open-source hardware communities, in which hackers give up a considerable amount of free time and creativity to create open technology, Alışkan investigates how free time becomes a “hyper-exploited” commodity from which capital is increasingly accumulated. Whereas paid workers are still often exploited, Alışkan posits that open-source workers are further “hyper-exploited” by technology companies as they receive no compensation for their labour. Ultimately, this book reveals how the time and activity of volunteers in open-source communities are ripe for capitalist exploitation that blurs the line between leisure and work time, often disguised by assertions that such labour is “fun” or in line with volunteers’ personal interests or values. Scholars of communication, digital media, sociology, and labour studies will find this book of particular interest.
Semantic and Fuzzy Modelling for Human Behaviour Recognition in Smart Spaces
One of the major limitations of the Ambient Intelligent Systems today is the lack of semantic models of those activities on the environment, so that the system can recognize the specific activity being performed by the user(s) and act accordingly. In this context, this thesis addresses the general problem of knowledge representation in Smart Spaces. The main objective is to develop knowledge-based models, equipped with semantics to learn, infer and monitor human behaviours in Smart Spaces. Moreover, it is easy to recognize that some aspects of this problem have a high degree of uncertainty, and therefore, the developed models must be equipped with mechanisms to manage this type of informatio...
Comunicación y desarrollo en la Sociedad Digital: nuevos discursos y viejos valores del poder cultural
Las industrias culturales están integradas en una constante estrategia mercantil y comunicativa de producción en cadena. A través de unas prácticas de inevitable serialización, que establece el mercado, se tratan los productos culturales a modo de manufactura simbólica, cuyo único objetivo es configurar la conciencia colectiva. Así, encontramos que nuestros gustos son objeto de explotación mercantil a través de las industrias culturales, se producen "en serie" imágenes y discursos con una variedad simulada, donde sólo cambian los contextos, los medios, los personajes, los formatos, etc. pero cuyo único enfoque está dirigido a fomentar un consumo acrítico. Esta aparente pluralidad oculta un poder hegemónico, de corte mercantilista, que mantiene y reproduce un mismo modelo cultural que excluye e inferioriza las diferencias.
Comunicar y educar en el mundo que viene (2a ed.)
Comunicar y educar en el mundo que viene pretende iniciar un diálogo sobre temas y cuestiones que la comunicación y la escuela silencian o niegan. En muchas ocasiones, se responsabiliza a los docentes y a los comunicadores de sus acciones y los modelos que ponen en práctica, pero lo que hacen no es más que reproducir las políticas educativas, comunicativas e informacionales que el Estado asume y practica en los medios y en la educación. Mientras los gobiernos no pongan en marcha proyectos, propuestas e ideas que se correspondan con la sociedad informacional, en las escuelas y universidades, así como en los medios, estaremos inmersos en concepciones propias de otra era. Estamos a punto de iniciar la tercera década del siglo XXI y las prácticas educativas y comunicativas siguen atadas a los modelos que se dieron a lo largo del siglo XX. Esta segunda edición incluye nuevos capítulos y contenidos, ampliando y mejorando la edición anterior.
Cuba in Transition
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Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science
Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science contains sixty-one revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include Control Engineering, Network Management, Wireless Networks, Biotechnology, Signal Processing, Computational Intelligence, Computational Statistics, Internet Computing, High Performance Computing, and industrial applications. Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science will offer the state of art of tremendous advances in electrical engineering and computational science and also serve as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on electrical engineering and computational science.
