Papers by Václav Janoščík
Semiotica
The most successful games today do not use a pay-for-product model, but involve complex and aggre... more The most successful games today do not use a pay-for-product model, but involve complex and aggressive modes of monetizing their content (downloadable content, skins, in game currencies and markets, seasonal passes, etc.). While this has already been scrutinized, there are further consequences for games themselves and the economization of play. In my paper, I show how this strategy creates a conceptually novel situation, where playing can be considered to constitute reproductive labor-power and behavioral capital. In other words, playing here represents not only consumption but also the very production of such consumption, insofar as the main reason behind the massive success of these games is precisely their massive pool of players and data concerning their activity. Firstly, I analyse PUBG: Battlegrounds as an example of the most successful model of monetizing games and maintaining a large number of players and interaction. I focus both on the economic incentives as well as on the...
Předkládaná práce se snaží o artikulaci pojmu autonomie v jeho komplexnosti rámci. V první části ... more Předkládaná práce se snaží o artikulaci pojmu autonomie v jeho komplexnosti rámci. V první části jsou tematizovány jednotlivé kontexty tohoto pojmu, ve snaze prohlédnout jeho strukturu. Následně práce sleduje jeho vlastní historii. V poslední části pak hodláme výslednou koncepci aplikovat na dvě vybraná historiografická díla. Tímto postupem se snažíme zejména důsledně proniknout do bohaté interdisciplinární literatury, formulovat a hájit původní teze týkající se struktury i genealogie tohoto pojmu a prokázat tak nejen jeho historickou relevanci, ale také konceptuální užitečnost v rámci metodologie historické vědy
Article deals with Manovichs account of space. The author herald its prospective ability to becom... more Article deals with Manovichs account of space. The author herald its prospective ability to become universal form of information representation in new media. Our aim is to review such claims from perspective of contemporary online practices. We try to show that although the space as a category lies in the center of some fields of new media, typically in computer games, there has been very little conceptual or qualitative development in contrast to its commercial and quantitative dissemination. In our considerations, we are trying to highlight the role of user experience, which has changed significantly in the last 15 years and reflected in the commercial sector (e.g. marketing) on the border between reality and virtuality (especially towards augmented reality).
Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity
This chapter addresses the issue of privacy settings with a focus on Generation Y from a technolo... more This chapter addresses the issue of privacy settings with a focus on Generation Y from a technological, social, generational, cultural and philosophical point of view. After introducing the issue of Internet privacy and other relevant areas—generational and cultural differences, the philosophical framework, the postinternet condition, the possibilities of processing and (mis)using personal data, and privacy policy—the authors present their perspective on the issue, drawing implications for individuals and organizations based on their own research and other relevant studies. The authors discuss the possible implications in terms of a prospective use of personal data by companies (e.g. for marketing and management) and possibility of processing user data. Such perspective will allow them to formulate a critical basis for further assessment of social networking and Generation Y's attitudes to privacy. The chapter concludes by outlining several recommendations concerning the commerc...
This paper aims to examine the difference in the approach to the privacy of the young generation ... more This paper aims to examine the difference in the approach to the privacy of the young generation in the Czech Republic and France. We investigate the profiles of 531 Facebook users. The visibility of each profile was recorded in two ways – from the perspective of a friend and from the perspective of a random Facebook user. The main aim is to find in which country the young people are more responsible in approach to the publication of their personal data on the social networking site Facebook, both in relation to their list of friends as well as to the general internet public. We analyze significant differences between the settings of the service of young people in the Czech Republic and France. While the French Facebook users show more effort to protect their information in general, in case of the key items the opposite is true (email, location). Despite of a greater tendency to publish a large number of surveyed items, the Czech users very strictly protect information that makes th...
Intimacy and Developing Personal Relationships in the Virtual World
Human subjectivity is deeply affected by the environment as mediated by the Internet. As users wi... more Human subjectivity is deeply affected by the environment as mediated by the Internet. As users within this environment, people are not only affected by their entrance into it, but their subjectivity evolves along with the trends of online networking. The subjectivity of people is affected by (their networking with) human and artificial users of the environment and the possibility of influencing user's subjectivity is also given by other specific aspects of the environment. This chapter focuses on three areas: artificial users, subject and its fragmentarization, and multimodal interaction. Findings in conceptualizing change in terms of subjectivity are based within the poststructuralist philosophical tradition. There is applied the phenomenon known as the "death of the author," proclaimed in late 1960s, to the situation of the contemporary user to uncover changes in online subjectivity. The chapter also presents examples of implications of such changes at the level of interactions and distribution of messages and the role of artificial users in these processes within online marketing.
Article resumes some fundamental features of the new media theory outlined by Lev Manovich in his... more Article resumes some fundamental features of the new media theory outlined by Lev Manovich in his well-known book Language of new media, on the occassiou of publication of its Czech translation. We are presenting reflection of its translator.
This paper aims to examine the difference in the approach to the privacy of the young generation ... more This paper aims to examine the difference in the approach to the privacy of the young generation in the Czech Republic and France. We investigate the profiles of 531 Facebook users. The visibility of each profile was recorded in two ways-from the perspective of a friend and from the perspective of a random Facebook user. The main aim is to find in which country the young people are more responsible in approach to the publication of their personal data on the social networking site Facebook, both in relation to their list of friends as well as to the general internet public. We analyze significant differences between the settings of the service of young people in the Czech Republic and France. While the French Facebook users show more effort to protect their information in general, in case of the key items the opposite is true (email, location). Despite of a greater tendency to publish a large number of surveyed items, the Czech users very strictly protect information that makes them identifiable at other levels (phone number, email, location). Differences in the data indicate a different role that the social network plays. In France, the network is more tightly linked with other layers of identity of users. This naturally makes pressure for greater control of the published data. In the Czech Republic, social networks follow more logic of remediation-rather than create a supplement to real identity, it acts as an alternative. Furthermore, we discuss the possible implications in terms of the usability of these data by other entities (e.g. marketing) including possible misuse of available data (e.g. cyberbullying, mobbing, bossing, staffing). In conclusion, we identify the greatest risks based on the analysis and discuss the results with philosophical opinions of M. Foucault and T. W. Adorno.
While we are living in rapidly changing environment driven by the online services marketing has b... more While we are living in rapidly changing environment driven by the online services marketing has been rather reluctant in serious apprehending of these consequences. We do not aim to analyse this complex delay that we call conceptual jetlag here. (Conceptual consciousness of marketing is far behind the velocity of the plane online services.) Rather we try to establish certain switchback that is driven by concept of philosophy by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the artistic notion of postinternet. By these means we aim at unveiling the general drive of marketing: The product (take Photoshop as an instance) is meant not only to satisfy our needs and desires. It is creates them.
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While we are living in rapidly changing environment driven by the online services, marketing has ... more While we are living in rapidly changing environment driven by the online services, marketing has been rather reluctant in serious apprehending of these consequences. We do not aim to analyse this complex delay that we call conceptual jetlag here. (Conceptual consciousness of marketing is far behind the velocity of the plane online services.) Rather we try to establish certain switchback that is driven by concept of philosophy by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the artistic notion of postinternet. By these means we aim at unveiling the general drive of marketing: The product (take Photoshop as an instance) is meant not only to satisfy our needs and desires. It is creates them. This basic assumption of marketing and the dominance of online environment can elucidate each other since the "fluid ontology" of virtual environment consists precisely in the possibility of being formed by the will of its users.
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Papers by Václav Janoščík
https://www.summerofphotography.be/en/activity/vernissage-cities-and-velocities
" Před mnoha lety byla tohle šťastná a kvetoucí planeta. Lidé, obchody, normální svět. Až na to, že na hlavních ulicích bylo o maličko víc obchodů obuví, než by člověk považoval za nutné. A zvolna, kradmo, jejich počet vzrůstal. Známý eko-nomický jev, ale když ho pozorujete ve skutečnosti, úplně vás to sebere. Čím víc obchodů obuví, tím víc bot bylo nut-no produkovat, a kvalita se zhoršovala a zhoršovala, až na-konec nebyly k nošení. A čím víc k nenošení, tím víc jich lidé museli kupovat, a tím víc obchody obuví vzkvétaly, až celá ekonomika dospěla k obzoru obuvních událostí — tak se tomu tuším říká. V tom stadiu už není možné zakládat nic jiného než obchody s obuví. A výsledek? Krach, zkáza, hladomor. Většina obyvatel vymřela. Ti, kteří byli nadáni tím správným duchem genetické nestability, se proměnili v ptáky — jedno-ho z nich jste viděl —, kteří prokleli své nohy a zdejší půdu a zapřisáhli se, že po ní už nikdo chodit nebude. Nešťastníci! Pojďte, musím vás zavést do Víru. " Douglas Adams, Stopařův průvodce po galaxii, s. 46 47.
http://nod.roxy.cz/cs/program/gallery/910-isabelle-richner-solo-vystava
www.kvalitar.cz/g/pripravujeme-josef-achrer-pro-jekce-a-ab-strakce
http://www.ninnaberger.com/fromThesameMother.html
http://www.pifpaf.cz/en/zajimava-doba-aneb-jak-se-divat-na-zvirata
http://www.pifpaf.cz/cs/zajimava-doba-aneb-jak-se-divat-na-zvirata
https://www.summerofphotography.be/en/activity/vernissage-cities-and-velocities
" Před mnoha lety byla tohle šťastná a kvetoucí planeta. Lidé, obchody, normální svět. Až na to, že na hlavních ulicích bylo o maličko víc obchodů obuví, než by člověk považoval za nutné. A zvolna, kradmo, jejich počet vzrůstal. Známý eko-nomický jev, ale když ho pozorujete ve skutečnosti, úplně vás to sebere. Čím víc obchodů obuví, tím víc bot bylo nut-no produkovat, a kvalita se zhoršovala a zhoršovala, až na-konec nebyly k nošení. A čím víc k nenošení, tím víc jich lidé museli kupovat, a tím víc obchody obuví vzkvétaly, až celá ekonomika dospěla k obzoru obuvních událostí — tak se tomu tuším říká. V tom stadiu už není možné zakládat nic jiného než obchody s obuví. A výsledek? Krach, zkáza, hladomor. Většina obyvatel vymřela. Ti, kteří byli nadáni tím správným duchem genetické nestability, se proměnili v ptáky — jedno-ho z nich jste viděl —, kteří prokleli své nohy a zdejší půdu a zapřisáhli se, že po ní už nikdo chodit nebude. Nešťastníci! Pojďte, musím vás zavést do Víru. " Douglas Adams, Stopařův průvodce po galaxii, s. 46 47.
http://nod.roxy.cz/cs/program/gallery/910-isabelle-richner-solo-vystava
www.kvalitar.cz/g/pripravujeme-josef-achrer-pro-jekce-a-ab-strakce
http://www.ninnaberger.com/fromThesameMother.html
http://www.pifpaf.cz/en/zajimava-doba-aneb-jak-se-divat-na-zvirata
http://www.pifpaf.cz/cs/zajimava-doba-aneb-jak-se-divat-na-zvirata
text by Václav Janoščík and the FRAG collective
graphic design: Artur Magrot
That is what we mean by Reinventing Horizons.
This book arises from a peculiar set of motifs and circumstances. It aims at accompanying the conference which is held on the 18th and 19th of March 2016 of the same name and an exhibi- tion Artificial Cinema, held at Tranzitdisplay, Prague. It also serves a purpose of its own. As such, the book takes its point of depar- ture in the accelerationist discourse, which we take to be a broad and heterogeneous strand of thought attempting a redefinition, or even a repurposing, of current means, be it within the context of academia, the arts, technology or media, in order to address unresolved contemporary socio-political problems. It has been our objective to bring together a broad variety of contributors in order to accommodate various themes coalescing around the debates of contemporary thought.