INVESTIGADORES
FINQUELIEVICH Susana
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
From Cultural Consumers to Cultural Prosumers: Citizen Co-creation of Cultural Changes in Information Society
Autor/es:
FINQUELIEVICH SUSANA
Lugar:
Yuzhno Sakhalinsk
Reunión:
Conferencia; International Conference "Internet and Socio-Cultural Trasnfromations in Information Society"; 2013
Institución organizadora:
UNESCO Rusia
Resumen:
The rapid changes shaped by the information society in
the spheres of production and communication have inevitably meant swift,
large-scale changes in the way that knowledge is transmitted, communication is carried
out at a distance and information is used in the new media. On one hand,
culture consumers are developing new habits to access cultural goods and
services: users have become prosumers (producers + consumers). On the other
hand, the State at national, regional, and local levels has recognized the need
to formulate public policies in order to encourage and regulate such social
practices.
Cultural transformations related to ICTs are visible
primarily in the massive access to communication via interactive media which
has influenced cultural identities, cultural production and consumption,
democracy and governance, and the degree and means of civic participation.
This paper, based on the research by the author and
her team since the late 1990s, analyses the evolving processes by which
Internet users increase and transform their proactive appropriation of
information and communication technologies (ICT), from ICT use to the
co-creation of scientific knowledge. Four cases are studied:
1.
Citizen´s appropriation of ICT for community
empowerment: The Global Community
Network Partnership (GCNP), a network of community networking associations, was
created in 1998 in Europe and spread rapidly to North America, Latin America,
Asia and Oceania. Its primary purpose was to
enable citizen access to ICT as well as to enhance the production of local
community content.
2.
Political participation through ICTs: Popular Assemblies in Argentina were established in the
midst of the acute economic and social crises of 2001-2002. Face-to-face
meetings between the Assemblies and ICT-mediated communication were held to inform
citizens about the external debt history and process, citizen rights and ways
in which to socially react to a crisis within a political representative
system. Assemblies thus assumed the role of political and economic media and provided
information learning for its attendants. Similar movements have been organized
more than a decade later by the ?indignados? (outraged) in several European
countries (Spain, Russia, France), Turkey, Israel, and Brazil (the ?tropical
springtime?).
3.
Co-creation of socio-technical knowledge: Urban Living Labs are places where people can
interact with technology, learn complex technological processes, and co-create
socio-technical innovations. The paper focuses on European and Latin American Living
lab experiences.
4. Co-creation of
scientific knowledge: E-Citizen Science (eCS), also known as ?cyberscience,? is a relatively new term for an old
practice, citizen science, which eCS has now propelled into the 21st century.
What we now call Citizen Science has greatly evolved over the past two decades.
Most recent advances are due to new scientific approaches plus the use of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). eCS covers a wide variety of
applications: from agriculture to urban planning, astrobiology to software and informatics services, health care to
oceanography, social sciences to rocketry. This report focuses on a few trends in the use of ICTs for scientific
purposes in relevant projects of diverse disciplines, analyzes the role of
citizen scientists in eCS projects, and highlights the use of eCS for community
empowering, indigenous studies and gender studies.
Through these cases, the paper analyses the social adoption
and use of Knowledge Society tools in non?state initiatives, and studies the evolution
of cultural changes though these cases.