translated by Margaret Schwartz

Biographic Data

ID6754357
NAMEtranslated by Margaret Schwartz
GIVEN NAMEStranslated by Margaret
FAMILY NAMESchwartz
SIGNATURESCHWARTZ T B M
AFFILIATIONSFordham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX1

  • Digital Television

    Raul Trejo Delarbre, translated by Margaret SchwartzARTICLEPopular Communication2009Cited by: 1References: 1

    The existence of four technological standards for the development of digital television means different options for cultural development in each country. In Latin America, the processes for choosing the model for digital television have been conditioned by corporate and government interests. In some nations there has been information and deliberation about the available technological options. In others, the determination has been left up to gover…

  • Digital Convergence as the Symbolic Medium of New Practices and Meanings in Young People's Lives

    Rosalía Winocur, translated by Margaret SchwartzARTICLEPopular Communication2009References: 1

    This article deals with the experience of digital convergence in the life of young people as an environment wherein new social meanings are constructed, a real and yet illusory space to exercise a quota of symbolic power and to avoid social exclusion, an imaginary territory to recreate the local, an idealized space to sustain, bring closer, and to reinvent the presence of others. In this perspective, we will privilege a more transcendent meaning …

  • Digital Convergence in Cultural Communication

    Jesus Martin Barbero, translated by Margaret SchwartzARTICLEPopular Communication2009

    The idea of convergence presented itself in the cultural arena before appearing in the technological field via the idea of interculturality, which refers to the impossibility of understanding cultural diversity from above, which is to say, relegated to the margins of the processes of exchange between diverse cultures. This article proposes to reflect on the complexity and the dynamism of this exchange in the realm of digital convergence, from tec…

  • How Digital Convergence is Changing Cultural Theory

    Néstor García Canclini, translated by Margaret SchwartzARTICLEPopular Communication2009Cited by: 1References: 1

    Pierre Bourdieu's notion of cultural field loses its explanatory power when economic value dominates the symbolic and when institutions such as museums and publishers depend on market forces. This loss of autonomy is accentuated with digital convergence, which integrates texts and images, the factories that produce them and the habitus of readers, spectators, and Internet users. This process gives rise to new conceptual and political challenges, …

  • Techno-Cultural Convergence

    José Cabrera Paz, translated by Margaret SchwartzARTICLEPopular Communication2009References: 3

    The opportunities created by the emergence of digital technology give rise to more new ways to communicate, with more people, and using more technologies. The communicable world has broadened, and the world of communicators has multiplied ad infinitum. Today, we want to say everything, everything can be watched, and everybody wants to communicate. Although we are a communication society, at the same time we are “anxious” about communication. The …