The information bomb a conversation

CEO and Businesses are Losing Trust: Comparison of EU, USA, Czech and Slovak Republic

“…All the above mentioned concepts of trust are based on and derived from the basic, interpersonal concept of trust, whether it is represented by institutions, governments or individuals. In today´s information society, our day-to-day experience is based on the trust of several information sources, which are often distant and mediated (Virilio, 2001). In Public Relations and Communication Management, building trust in a company, its representatives and products/services plays a central role, according to the biggest pan-European survey conducted in 2011 (Zerfass et al 2011).…”

Towards investigating the social dimensions of using locative media within the urban context

“…However, the increasing penetration of urban life by new technological media 2 since the mid-1990s somehow 'forced' theorists to turn their attention to the new linkages between ICTs and the changing nature of urban life ( [13]: 3). Virilio [30] sees the new media of communication as acquiring increasingly potent powers in modern metropolises and this poses a variety of ethical, social and political problems and challenges. Castells has heralded the coming of the Information Age, not only in terms of the dominant modes of production and consumption, but also in terms of other life-world aspects and issues such as experience, self, architecture, interaction, time.…”

‘Dailiness’ in the New Media Environment: Youth Media Practices and the Temporal Structure of Life-World

“…The main assumption here is that our practical involvement with the material world, including communication technologies, "is temporal to its core", while the patterns of time and the temporalities of everyday life in late modern "mediatized societies" cannot be adequately addressed "without the use of technology, which permeates our everyday life" (Hörn-ing et al, 1999:294). There is an intensive theoretical debate within social theory (Crary, 2013;Tomlinson, 2007, Virilio, 2005Castells, 2000Harvey, 1989, Giddens, 1991 and media studies (see, among others, Moores 2005Moores , 2006Morley, 2003;Meyerowitz, 1985, Silverstone, 1993a concerning how notions of time and space are changing in late modern societies and how new technologies, especially media and communication technologies, contribute to changes of time and space. Nevertheless, there is still a big lacuna to fi ll if we want to understand everyday experiences of time in the context of daily life in a multimedia environment.…”