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.