Society, culture and, therefore, epistemology have been profoundly impacted by the wide adoption of technological and massive media. Also, art is experiencing these changes both in its nature and its creative manners. This paper addresses how writing is being affected by software, including its use to relate individuals to objects or people in the virtual realm. I propose the concept of software writings in order to study this type of writing as a political response. Particularly, I will explore the glitch — an unintended effect in videogames due to a code disruption — as a rhetorical resource in several instances of contemporary literature in Spanish.
{"title":"Textual cracks and interrupted discourses: the glitch resource in “software writings”","authors":"Vega Sánchez-Aparicio","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I23.3134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I23.3134","url":null,"abstract":"Society, culture and, therefore, epistemology have been profoundly impacted by the wide adoption of technological and massive media. Also, art is experiencing these changes both in its nature and its creative manners. This paper addresses how writing is being affected by software, including its use to relate individuals to objects or people in the virtual realm. I propose the concept of software writings in order to study this type of writing as a political response. Particularly, I will explore the glitch — an unintended effect in videogames due to a code disruption — as a rhetorical resource in several instances of contemporary literature in Spanish.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41743256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El presente artículo revisa las historias de identidades personales y colectivas a partir de entrevistas a profundidad a cinco participantes. Los entrevistados generalmente expresan la dificultad de definir su identidad en los términos establecidos; sin embargo, tienen un sentido de la dirección hacia la que sus identidades se transforman: sus objetivos, sueños, aspiraciones o espiritualidad, por nombrar algunos. El artículo revisa el entendimiento de la identidad desde la perspectiva relacional; mientras se enfoca en las relaciones con los sujetos no humanos y no vivos. Como nómadas, los entrevistados confirman que no desarrollan apegos duraderos a los objetos; pero sus historias de vida revelan los anclajes materiales que eligen en la construcción de sus identidades a través de sus prácticas cotidianas. La cotidianidad, como parte del mundo material, es el entorno más adecuado para un estudio crítico de las prácticas sociales, las emociones, las relaciones y las experiencias en su diversidad. La identidad aparece como una transformación, un cambio, un juego constante de diferencias que se desafían entre sí, se reconfirman y se reconstruyen mutuamente.
{"title":"Relaciones complejas en el mundo material viajero","authors":"Polina Golovátina-Mora","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i22.3136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i22.3136","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo revisa las historias de identidades personales y colectivas a partir de entrevistas a profundidad a cinco participantes. Los entrevistados generalmente expresan la dificultad de definir su identidad en los términos establecidos; sin embargo, tienen un sentido de la dirección hacia la que sus identidades se transforman: sus objetivos, sueños, aspiraciones o espiritualidad, por nombrar algunos. El artículo revisa el entendimiento de la identidad desde la perspectiva relacional; mientras se enfoca en las relaciones con los sujetos no humanos y no vivos. Como nómadas, los entrevistados confirman que no desarrollan apegos duraderos a los objetos; pero sus historias de vida revelan los anclajes materiales que eligen en la construcción de sus identidades a través de sus prácticas cotidianas. La cotidianidad, como parte del mundo material, es el entorno más adecuado para un estudio crítico de las prácticas sociales, las emociones, las relaciones y las experiencias en su diversidad. La identidad aparece como una transformación, un cambio, un juego constante de diferencias que se desafían entre sí, se reconfirman y se reconstruyen mutuamente.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71380468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
El libro de la profesora e investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad de Antioquia Marta Isabel Domínguez “Territorios Colectivos. Proceso de Formación del Estado en el Pacifico colombiano 1993-2009”, es una apuesta investigativa en donde se piensa al Estado desde una mirada procesual y etnográfica. La pretensión de la autora es analizar distintos procesos donde participan actores relacionados en múltiples escalas, tanto locales como burocráticas y estatales.
{"title":"Reseña del libro “Territorios Colectivos. Proceso de Formación del Estado en el Pacifico colombiano 1993-2009”","authors":"H. Grajales","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I22.3141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I22.3141","url":null,"abstract":"El libro de la profesora e investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad de Antioquia Marta Isabel Domínguez “Territorios Colectivos. Proceso de Formación del Estado en el Pacifico colombiano 1993-2009”, es una apuesta investigativa en donde se piensa al Estado desde una mirada procesual y etnográfica. La pretensión de la autora es analizar distintos procesos donde participan actores relacionados en múltiples escalas, tanto locales como burocráticas y estatales.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45692144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) y Georg Simmel (1858-1918) son dos nombres clave en la historia de la Sociología. Sus enfoques han desafiado el paso del tiempo concediéndoles el estatus de clásicos. Las condiciones sociohistóricas que hacen posible tal fenómeno en una disciplina científica son, sin duda, tema de interés para la «sociología del conocimiento», a la que el primero de los autores dedicó ingentes esfuerzos. A diferencia de lo mucho que se ha escrito en torno a la relación entre Weber y Simmel, o entre este y Lukács, es relativamente poco lo que sabemos sobre el vínculo entre Simmel y Mannheim. ¿Qué influencia pudo haber tenido el berlinés en la sociología del húngaro? ¿Qué opinión le merecía a este el pensamiento de quien fuera su antiguo maestro?
{"title":"Georg Simmel como filósofo","authors":"Karl Manheim","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i22.3145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i22.3145","url":null,"abstract":"Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) y Georg Simmel (1858-1918) son dos nombres clave en la historia de la Sociología. Sus enfoques han desafiado el paso del tiempo concediéndoles el estatus de clásicos. Las condiciones sociohistóricas que hacen posible tal fenómeno en una disciplina científica son, sin duda, tema de interés para la «sociología del conocimiento», a la que el primero de los autores dedicó ingentes esfuerzos.\u0000\u0000A diferencia de lo mucho que se ha escrito en torno a la relación entre Weber y Simmel, o entre este y Lukács, es relativamente poco lo que sabemos sobre el vínculo entre Simmel y Mannheim. ¿Qué influencia pudo haber tenido el berlinés en la sociología del húngaro? ¿Qué opinión le merecía a este el pensamiento de quien fuera su antiguo maestro?","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71380646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love and Society by Swen Seebach is a sociological study of love at its best. In recent years there has been a global boom in the scientific studies of love (García-Andrade 2014). Why? How has love become so crucial in sciences as it has in our lives? This book intends to understand why and how love has come center stage from a sociological point of view. And I emphasize this is a sociological endeavor because the question at hand is what is love’s contribution to social cohesion, how do we bond with each other when we are ‘in love’ and why it is so central in our societies, contrary to other historical periods. Also, and differently from other theoretical texts, the author goes hand in hand with empirical research on love to illustrate what people say about their love bonds: “…nearly 100 qualitative interviews with people from different European countries, with different sexual orientations, and with different social backgrounds…” (p. 13, n.1)
{"title":"Book review of Love and Society. Special Social Forms and the Master Emotion by Swen Seebach. A sociological study of love: Swen Seebach’s Love and Society","authors":"Adriana García-Andrade","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I22.3123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I22.3123","url":null,"abstract":"Love and Society by Swen Seebach is a sociological study of love at its best. In recent years there has been a global boom in the scientific studies of love (García-Andrade 2014). Why? How has love become so crucial in sciences as it has in our lives? This book intends to understand why and how love has come center stage from a sociological point of view. And I emphasize this is a sociological endeavor because the question at hand is what is love’s contribution to social cohesion, how do we bond with each other when we are ‘in love’ and why it is so central in our societies, contrary to other historical periods.\u0000\u0000Also, and differently from other theoretical texts, the author goes hand in hand with empirical research on love to illustrate what people say about their love bonds: “…nearly 100 qualitative interviews with people from different European countries, with different sexual orientations, and with different social backgrounds…” (p. 13, n.1)","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46685431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this paper is to identify how participants manage technical difficulties during online collaborative learning. We analyze the participation framework in a corpus composed of 30 hours of online collaborative learning among students of an Andean university, their professor, and international experts. The internet-based IT platform used was ZOOM. We present a multimodal interaction of verbal and body language in collaborative activity for the analysis of moment-by-moment evolving social interaction. Also using conversation analysis, we focus on the ways in which participants interact with their words and their non-lexical expression. Thanks to this methodology, we describe the moment-by-moment interactional work performed in collaborative activity. We have observed how technical difficulties generate social unrest and negative emotions shared among participants. In many cases, these difficulties generate conflicts between participants. We describe how negative emotions are shown in mixed contexts, and how users solved these during online collaborative learning. This study contributes to previous knowledge on the importance of multimodal interaction in displaying engagement and organizing courses of action in meeting settings by analyzing the multimodal construction of one specific situation, that is, a conflict caused by technical issues and managed between users.
{"title":"Managing Negative Emotions in Online Collaborative Learning. A multimodal approach to solving technical difficulties","authors":"Simone Belli","doi":"10.7238/d.v0i22.3140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i22.3140","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to identify how participants manage technical difficulties during online collaborative learning. We analyze the participation framework in a corpus composed of 30 hours of online collaborative learning among students of an Andean university, their professor, and international experts. The internet-based IT platform used was ZOOM. We present a multimodal interaction of verbal and body language in collaborative activity for the analysis of moment-by-moment evolving social interaction. Also using conversation analysis, we focus on the ways in which participants interact with their words and their non-lexical expression. Thanks to this methodology, we describe the moment-by-moment interactional work performed in collaborative activity.\u0000\u0000We have observed how technical difficulties generate social unrest and negative emotions shared among participants. In many cases, these difficulties generate conflicts between participants. We describe how negative emotions are shown in mixed contexts, and how users solved these during online collaborative learning. This study contributes to previous knowledge on the importance of multimodal interaction in displaying engagement and organizing courses of action in meeting settings by analyzing the multimodal construction of one specific situation, that is, a conflict caused by technical issues and managed between users.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42273998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long distance relationships and caring at a distance may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward and empowerment; above all, they possess important implications in terms of social justice, equality and citizenship. The expression ‘world families’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2014) includes a heterogeneous and tension-filled set of social actors who have in common the potential to bridge traditional distinctions between public and private, centre and periphery, national and international, able-bodied and physically/cognitively impaired, heterosexual and homosexual, bypassing dichotomous ideas of inclusion/exclusion which typically characterise the concept of citizenship. These families represent a group of very different social actors, including couples of mixed cultures and ethnicities, low-paid migrant workers, skilled migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, distant families, etc. who challenge our culturally homogenous understanding of family and society and are defined therefore as ‘pioneers of cosmopolitanism’ and cultural diversity. Drawing on recent work on families, relationships, intimacies and caring for distant others and contextualising it within the specific and still unexplored context of Living Apart Together (LAT) same-sex couples, this article examines the moral, sociological and institutional geographies of these less visible chains of care and affection and their unequally entitled rights and visibility. The literature review is combined with auto-ethnographic work analysing and discussing the case of a married, same-sex, transnational, Living Apart Together (LAT) couple. This article suggests that by looking at what happens at the level of emotion-based, micro-situated interactions we can get some crucial insights into the changing nature of families, intimacies and relationships and their multiple implications in terms of social inclusion, entitlement to rights/citizenship and social change. It is a form of relational, emotion-based and micro-situated social inclusion and entitlement to rights/citizenship which is occurring, on a daily basis, in the interstices of people’s interactions even when such change still meets several obstacles at the structural, political and institutional level.
{"title":"Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship","authors":"A. Pratesi","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I22.3130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I22.3130","url":null,"abstract":"Long distance relationships and caring at a distance may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward and empowerment; above all, they possess important implications in terms of social justice, equality and citizenship. The expression ‘world families’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2014) includes a heterogeneous and tension-filled set of social actors who have in common the potential to bridge traditional distinctions between public and private, centre and periphery, national and international, able-bodied and physically/cognitively impaired, heterosexual and homosexual, bypassing dichotomous ideas of inclusion/exclusion which typically characterise the concept of citizenship. These families represent a group of very different social actors, including couples of mixed cultures and ethnicities, low-paid migrant workers, skilled migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, distant families, etc. who challenge our culturally homogenous understanding of family and society and are defined therefore as ‘pioneers of cosmopolitanism’ and cultural diversity.\u0000Drawing on recent work on families, relationships, intimacies and caring for distant others and contextualising it within the specific and still unexplored context of Living Apart Together (LAT) same-sex couples, this article examines the moral, sociological and institutional geographies of these less visible chains of care and affection and their unequally entitled rights and visibility. The literature review is combined with auto-ethnographic work analysing and discussing the case of a married, same-sex, transnational, Living Apart Together (LAT) couple.\u0000This article suggests that by looking at what happens at the level of emotion-based, micro-situated interactions we can get some crucial insights into the changing nature of families, intimacies and relationships and their multiple implications in terms of social inclusion, entitlement to rights/citizenship and social change. It is a form of relational, emotion-based and micro-situated social inclusion and entitlement to rights/citizenship which is occurring, on a daily basis, in the interstices of people’s interactions even when such change still meets several obstacles at the structural, political and institutional level.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47435411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The newly published doctoral thesis of Yvonne Albrecht “Feelings in the Migration Process. Transcultural Narrations between Belonging and Distance” is a must-have for those who are interested in the nexus between migration and emotion. Apart from the pleasurable read, it is a seminal analysis on the subject still lacking academic attention. The main research question is what opportunities of handling their emotions migrants choose in order to be able to act in the challenging context of the arrival country. The innovativeness of this research rests in particular in the non-pathologizing look at the ways migrants deal with their emotions: It focuses not only on the negative aspects of emotion regulation, its failures and migrants’ suffering, but also sees possibilities of autonomous and creative ways to handle emotions in the context of new expectations and requirements to their behavior.
{"title":"Book review of Gefühle im Prozess der Migration. Transkulturelle Narrationen zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Distanzierung by Yvonne Albrecht (Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2017)","authors":"Monika Verbalyte","doi":"10.7238/D.V0I22.3120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/D.V0I22.3120","url":null,"abstract":"The newly published doctoral thesis of Yvonne Albrecht “Feelings in the Migration Process. Transcultural Narrations between Belonging and Distance” is a must-have for those who are interested in the nexus between migration and emotion. Apart from the pleasurable read, it is a seminal analysis on the subject still lacking academic attention. The main research question is what opportunities of handling their emotions migrants choose in order to be able to act in the challenging context of the arrival country. The innovativeness of this research rests in particular in the non-pathologizing look at the ways migrants deal with their emotions: It focuses not only on the negative aspects of emotion regulation, its failures and migrants’ suffering, but also sees possibilities of autonomous and creative ways to handle emotions in the context of new expectations and requirements to their behavior.","PeriodicalId":51964,"journal":{"name":"Digithum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47354865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“Zur Psychologie der Scham”, which translates as “On the Psychology of Shame”, was written by Simmel in 1901 for the Vienna newspaper Die Zeit. Unlike other articles by the German philosopher, in this one he reviews and explicitly questions the work and research of one his contemporaries: Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), the physician and sexologist whose explanations of the origin of the feeling of shame and embarrassment gave rise – at the time – to debate on the matter. It is, in turn, Simmel’s response and contribution to this debate, from a perspective that draws on both psychological and sociological elements. It is thus not confined to a merely critical review, making it Simmel’s own contribution to the specific issue of shame; a contribution which, incidentally, is closely related to the part of his work concerned with emotions, feelings and attachments between humans.
“Zur Psychologie der Scham”，翻译为“论羞耻心理”，西梅尔于1901年为维也纳报纸《时代周报》撰写。与这位德国哲学家的其他文章不同，在这篇文章中，他回顾并明确质疑了同时代人哈维洛克·埃利斯（1859-1939）的工作和研究，他是一位医生和性学家，对羞耻感和尴尬感起源的解释在当时引发了对此事的辩论。这反过来又是西梅尔对这场辩论的回应和贡献，从心理学和社会学的角度来看。因此，它不仅仅局限于批判性的审查，使其成为西梅尔自己对具体的羞耻问题的贡献；顺便说一句，这一贡献与他的作品中涉及人类之间的情感、感受和依恋的部分密切相关。
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Following the global economic crash of 2008, thousands of Spaniards were forced to leave their country in search of better conditions in other parts of the world. Some set off for European countries like Germany or England, while others crossed the Atlantic into the “New World”. Several migrants, mainly young, arrived in Mexico looking for jobs or better economic conditions. Given these circumstances, social media platforms have attained strategic significance, and not only for Spaniards already living in Mexico who want to stay in contact with their relatives, friends and culture in Spain. These platforms are also an invaluable tool for those thinking of traveling to the Latin American country and who need information related to economic, migratory and security issues. This work focuses on understanding how social media platforms serve both to solve problems of daily life and to encourage cohesion and enable the construction of communities among Spaniards abroad.
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