Interfaces: networks, ecology and evolution

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Carlos A. Scolari
Pompeu Fabra University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7792-0345
Francisco Albarello
Universidad Austral, Argentina
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6623-916X

This Hipertext.net monograph entitled Interfaces: networks, ecology and evolution brings together research that has applied the concept of interface to analyze different areas of social and cultural life. Although this concept has been around for more than a century, in recent decades it has become fixed to the idea of “user (graphical) interface”. This monograph takes the concept of interface much further and proposes it as an analytical tool to understand the mutations of contemporary society and to guide concrete actions to meet its challenges.

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Interface, Interface rules, Networks, Technology, Ecology, Evolution

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Scolari, Carlos A.; Albarello, Francisco. “Interfaces: networks, ecology and evolution”. Hipertext.net, 2022, no. 25, pp. 1-3, doi:10.31009/hipertext.net.2022.i25.01.
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Author Biographies

Carlos A. Scolari, Pompeu Fabra University

Carlos A. Scolari is PhD in Applied Linguistics and Communication Languages (Catholic University of Milan, Italy) and full professor at the Department of Communication (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain). He was principal investigator of the Transmedia Literacy Research European Project (EU-H2020-RIA, 2015–18). He is currently coordinator of the PhD Programme in Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. He is an expert in transmedia storytelling, digital interactive media and media ecology.

Francisco Albarello, Universidad Austral, Argentina

Francisco Albarello is PhD in Social Communication (Universidad Austral), is a research professor at Universidad Austral, Universidad Nacional de San Martín and Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He is Director of the Doctorate in Communication of Universidad Austral and invited professor at Latin American universities. He has published ‘Between books and screens: booktubers as cultural mediators’ (Buenos Aires, Universidad del Salvador, 2020), ‘Transmedia reading: reading, writing, conversing in the ecosystem of screens’ (Buenos Aires, Ampersand, 2019) and ‘Reading/surfing the Internet: ways of reading on the computer’ (Buenos Aires, La Crujía, 2011), among others.

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