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Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environment by moving across the mediated landscapes of the first, third, and fourth (Indigenous people's) worlds, which are deeply intertwined and interconnected under contemporary conditions of neoliberal globalization and emergent regimes of authoritarian postdemocracy. The book attends both to the platforms and digital networks of the new media environment and to the cultural forms and practices that have constituted television as the dominant medium of communication throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In the new media environment, transmediation works on behalf not only of those corporate megaconglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world but also of many communities that have previously been excluded from access to the means of electronic textual production and circulation. For the latter, grassroots transmediation has become an important technique for the production of cultural citizenship.

How the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public discourse.Over the past decade, the power of narrative has been unleashed with awesome and terrifying consequences, and it has been consumed in its blurred media forms by millions of people as news, entertainment, and education. Imagining Transmedia, edited by Ed Finn, Bob Beard, Joey Eschrich, and Ruth Wylie, explores the surprising ways that narratives working across media forms became the default grammar for both media consumption and personal expression and how multiplatform storytelling creates new media literacies and modes of civil discourse.Understanding this shift reveals transmedia as an essential building block of media literacy today. Transmedia is how we create, interpret, and participate in our increasingly mediated society. It extends beyond popular culture into professional and public spheres while, at the same time, it fuels the misinformation and polarization that have contributed to America's fraying civic discourse. Reaching beyond traditional academic analyses, this probing collection of essays and conversations features transmedia practitioners sharing their experiences and inviting readers to imagine the types of multimodal stories and experiences they might create. Prioritizing conversation over a single unified theory, each section of this volume pairs thematically linked essays from international contributors with a dialogue between authors to create an accessible, practical synthesis of ideas.

¿Cómo cambian los medios? ¿Cómo se puede comprender esa transformación? ¿Es posible dar un sentido a lo'viejo'desde la perspectiva de lo'nuevo'? Aunque el mundo está mutando más rápido que los conceptos y teorías que los humanos creamos para comprender esos cambios, el estudio de la evolución de los medios está incorporando distintos enfoques para intentar explicar el fenómeno. En este libro, Carlos A. Scolari se propone mapear esas contribuciones para identificar sus interconexiones, similitudes y diferencias, y así construir una mirada evolutiva que vaya más allá de las historias lineales o de la aplicación mecánica de las metáforas darwinianas. El papiro, el fax, los discos de vinilo, la televisión, la fotografía, el cine, la web y el cómic conviven aquí en un diálogo que evidencia hasta qué punto ha sido determinante su interacción en el proceso evolutivo de los medios de comunicación. De esta manera, Sobre la evolución de los medios no solo integra las experiencias teóricas y empíricas desarrolladas en las últimas décadas, sino que además propone un modelo de análisis flexible e interdisciplinario para comprender las transformaciones del ecosistema mediático.

Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms teaches students in media tracks – journalism, advertising, film, and public relations – how to independently field test and evaluate emerging technologies that could impact how media is produced, consumed, and monetized in the future.Taking a unique trial-and-error approach, the author encourages students to go against their desire for perfection and instead plunge into exercises with the full expectation that they will'fail'many times before they succeed. Through focused assignments, this book provides pointers on how to familiarize oneself with current technology, including extended reality (XR, VR, AR, and MR), open-source coding, photogrammetry, aerial imagery using drones, automation, and artificial intelligence. Readers are invited to create and test their own hypotheses and work outside of their comfort zones to reach conclusions on how a technology could enhance storytelling for a particular audience. Through experimentation guided by workbook exercises, case studies from students and media practitioners, practical tips, and reminders about ethical decision-making, students will learn how to work like explorers and civic hackers to enact change in the media landscape. Readers are invited to share their final field test results online through the book's companion website and social media channels, where the author will post links to further reading, coding templates for simple projects, and short video tutorials.Built around an established course being taught by the author and informed by over 20 years'experience in media industries, Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms is essential reading for aspiring media professionals and students undertaking courses such as Emerging Media, Media Innovation, and Media Startups.For additional resources, please see the companion website: www.emergingmediaplatforms.com.

This book, adhering to the dominant and critical approaches in communication studies, explains new theoretical concepts with examples, their definitions and pioneers. Under the heading of dominant approaches, the language of new media, participatory culture, network society, technological transformation and persuasion technology approaches are defined. In the context of critical approaches, the concepts of simulacrum, digital socialism, online movements, surveillance society, digital labour, digital loneliness, collective intelligence and political economy are explained. In the new terminologies section, the concepts of big data, artificial intelligence, semantic web, digital addiction, mixed reality and digital diseases are given in the context of the concept of virtuality.

This book brings genre back to the forefront of the current transmedia trend. Genres are perhaps the most innately transmedial of media constructs, formed as they are from all kinds of industrial, technological and discursive phenomena. Yet, few have considered how genre works in a multiplatform context. This book does precisely that, making a uniquely transmedial contribution to the study of genre in the age of media convergence. The book interrogates how industrial, technological and participatory transformations of digital platforms and emerging technologies reshape workings of genre. The authors consider franchises such as Star Wars, streaming platforms such as Netflix, catch-up services such as ITV Hub, creative technologies such as virtual reality, and beyond. In setting the stage for the revival of genre theory in contemporary transmedia scholarship, this book pushes forward understandings of multiplatform media and the emerging form and function of genre across contemporary culture.

Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today's media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional criticism to engage with infrastructural and industrial issues. This focus reflects a concern about the systemic inequalities that emerge when tech companies and designers fail to address workplace discrimination and algorithmic violence and exclusions. Moving from smart phones to smart dust, the essayists examine topics like artificial intelligence, human-machine communication, and links between digital infrastructures and public service media alongside investigations into the algorithmic backends at Netflix and Spotify, Google's hyperscale data centers, and video-on-demand services in India. A fascinating foray into an expanding landscape of media studies, Media Backends illuminates the behind-the-screen processes influencing our digital lives. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Philippe Bouquillion, Jonathan Cohn, Faithe J. Day, Sander De Ridder, Fatima Gaw, Christine Ithurbide, Anne Kaun, Amanda Lagerkvist, Alexis Logsdon, Stine Lomborg, Tim Markham, Vicki Mayer, Rahul Mukherjee, Kaarina Nikunen, Lisa Parks, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Philipp Seuferling, Ranjit Singh, Jacek Smolicki, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Matilda Tudor, Julia Velkova, and Zala Volcic

Bringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select creative practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity.EL Putnam investigates how the digital performances of certain artists, creators, and technologists rupture existing representations of the maternal, taking advantage of the formal properties of digital media. What results are interruptions of visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technologies.Putnam bases her analysis on close examinations of the way certain makers use the formal properties of digital imagery, such as the gap, the glitch, and the lag, as means of rendering images of the maternal uncanny in order to challenge mediation, constituting an aesthetics of interruption. The result is a radical critical strategy for engaging with digital technology and subsequent understandings of the subject that defy current modes of assimilation.

We're experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human. How do these advancements affect contemporary media and music? This collection traces how media, with a focus on sound and image, engages with these new technologies. It bridges the gap between science and the humanities by pairing humanists'close readings of contemporary media with scientists'discussions of the science and math that inform them. This text includes contributions by established and emerging scholars performing across-the-aisle research on new technologies, exploring topics such as facial and gait recognition; EEG and audiovisual materials; surveillance; and sound and images in relation to questions of sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and class and includes examples from a range of films and TV shows including Blade Runner, Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Morgan, Ex Machina, and Westworld. Through a variety of critical, theoretical, proprioceptive, and speculative lenses, the collection facilitates interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration and provides readers with ways of responding to these new technologies.

An investigation of the future of various media industries and technologies that considers how media shape our future.How do we combat post-truth in the news? Are social media influencers the journalists of today? What is it like to live in a smart city? Does AI really change'everything'? The Future of Media investigates the future of media industries and technologies (journalism, TV, film, photography, radio, publishing, social media), while exploring how media shape our future—on a political, economic, cultural and individual level. Issues of diversity, media reform, labour, activism and art take the discussion into a wider social context. Through this, the book celebrates the importance and vitality of media in the modern world. The Future of Media is also an experiment in collaborative modes of thinking and working. Co-authored by theorists and practitioners from one of the world's most established media departments, it offers a radical, creative and critical take on media industries—and on world affairs.

We know that educators and education systems at large face countless decisions every day. We also know that grounding educational decisions in research can improve the likelihood of desirable teaching and learning outcomes, as well as reduce the likelihood of unintended consequences. Research is just one among many types of evidence used in educational decision-making, however. So being “evidence informed” is as much about engaging with research evidence as it is engaging with practice-based evidence (e.g., professional judgment) and data-based evidence (e.g., school performance data). How can educators become evidence-informed? In our view, the best approach is to learn from examples from experts of how research can be integrated with these other types of evidence, and so regularly inform our own everyday practice. With that in mind, this practical handbook offers 16 illuminating chapters that provide a wealth of advice and perspectives on the subject written by North American educators who are striving to realize the idea of research-informed practice. Key themes – reflective practitioners, networks and collaboration, trust -emerge to help teachers formalize, prioritize and mobilize the use of research-evidence in schools.

Our century has seen the proliferation of reality shows devoted to ghost hunts, documentaries on hauntings, and horror films presented as found footage. The horror genre is no longer exclusive to fiction and its narratives actively engage us in web forums, experiential viewing, videogames, and creepypasta. These participative modes of relating to the occult, alongside the impulse to seek proof of either its existence or fabrication, have transformed the production and consumption of horror stories. The Ghost in the Image offers a new take on the place that supernatural phenomena occupy in everyday life, arguing that the relationship between the horror genre and reality is more intimate than we like to think. Through a revisionist and transmedial approach to horror this book investigates our expectations about the ability of photography and film to work as evidence. A historical examination of technology's role in at once showing and forging truths invites questions about our investment in its powers. Behind our obsession with documenting everyday life lies the hope that our cameras will reveal something extraordinary. The obsessive search for ghosts in the image, however, shows that the desire to find them is matched by the pleasure of calling a hoax.

Get the Summary of Jay David Bolter's Reality Media in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media—the latest in a series of what they term “reality media,” taking their places alongside film and television. Reality media inserts a layer of media between us and our perception of the world; AR and VR do not replace reality but refashion a reality for us. Each reality medium mediates and remediates; each offers a new representation that we implicitly compare to our experience of the world in itself but also through other media.

Understanding Digital Literacies Second Edition provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. This book equips students with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic dimensions and social impact of a range of digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems, and debates surrounding it, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices.Features of the second edition include:• expanded coverage of a diverse range of digital media practices that now includes Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tinder, and WhatsApp;• two entirely new chapters on mobility and materiality, and surveillance and privacy;• updated activities in each chapter which engage students in reflecting on and analysing their own media use;• e-resources featuring a glossary of key terms and supplementary material for each chapter, including additional activities and links to useful websites, articles, and videos.This book is an essential textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in new media and digital literacies.

Research Informed teaching is big news! Indeed one might argue that there has been a bottom up revolution encouraging teachers'use of research (e.g. ResearchED). But at the same time there is a gap between what teachers do and what research suggests might provide effective ways to support young children's learning. It's not that a wealth of educational research doesn't exist (just look at the What Works Clearinghouse, the Best Evidence Encyclopaedia or Hattie's Visible Learning), but the Early Years sector is often under-represented. This book is an attempt to address this disparity and provide Early Years leaders and practitioners with an understanding of how to embed this research within their everyday practice offering top tips of how others in the field have done this and considering topics such as outdoor learning, early writing skills and parental engagement. Drawing on the wisdom of those at the top of their game, this book intends to provide just that: a practical handbook for EYs practitioner and leaders that can help make the research use revolution a reality.

What is Transmedia? The Transmedia Cultures companion demonstrates that transmedia, and indeed transmedia storytelling, are fundamental to the human experience of being in the world and creating the stories of who we are, both as individuals and communities. Transmedia is not just limited to the Star Wars or Harry Potter franchises nor narratives exclusive to new media platforms and devices, though both these areas will necessarily be discussed. Indeed, transmedia embraces a multiplicity of media platforms (old and new, online and offline), content expansion, and evolving forms of audience engagement. This collection of concise, readable essays takes a holistic approach, expanding the areas of everyday life implicated in transmedia worldbuilding and the levels of immersion that they, purposely or otherwise, create. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction and historical overview, the volume explores contemporary transmedia worlds like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Walking Dead, Life is Strange and BTS Universe as well as urgent topics such as COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and human rights on the internet. User-created worlds (Magic: A Gathering) and ones that express individual identities (Queerskins) are also of particular interest. This volume offers a fresh approach to transmedia cultures, revealing the ever-increasing levels of entanglement they have within our real lives and with those we experience in other more imaginative or creative ones, bringing into focus exactly what is at stake in the «worlds» we choose to call our own.

This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from Monster High have been made more'real'through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different platforms. This also allows the consumer to engage on multiple levels with the'vampire world,'blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary realms and allowing for different kinds of identity to be created while questioning terms such as'author,''reader,''player'and'consumer.'These essays investigate the consequences of such immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is so well suited to life in the 21st century.

This collection offers a multi-faceted exploration of transmediations, the processes of transfer and transformation that occur when communicative acts in one medium are mediated again through another. While previous research has explored these processes from a broader perspective, Salmose and Elleström argue that a better understanding is needed of the extent to which the outcomes of communicative acts are modified when transferred across multimodal media in order to foster a better understanding of communication more generally. Using this imperative as a point of departure, the book details a variety of transmediations, viewed through four different lenses. The first part of the volume looks at narrative transmediations, building on existing work done by Marie-Laure Ryan on transmedia storytelling. The second section focuses on the spatial dynamics involved in media transformation as well as the role of the human body as a perceptive agent and a medium in its own right. The third part investigates new, radical boundaries and media types in transmediality and hence shows its versatility as a method of analyzing complex and contemporary communicative discourses. The fourth and final part explores the challenges involved in transmediating scientific data into the narrative format in the context of environmental issues. Taken together, these sections highlight a range of case studies of transmediations and, in turn, the complexity and variety of the process, informed by the methodologies of the different disciplines to which they belong. This innovative volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, communication, intermediality, semiotics, and adaptation studies.

التبادل الثقافي هو أحد مظاهر الظواهر العالمية والأحداث البشرية. التبادل الثقافي أكثر من مجرد الانتقال من ثقافة إلى أخرى، فهو لا يتكون فقط من اكتساب ثقافة جديدة ، أو فقدان أواقتلاع ثقافة سابقة ، لكنه يسعى لدمج هذه المفاهيم وما يترتب عليها من خلق الظواهر الثقافية الجديدة.

La investigación en comunicación se ha hecho indispensable en los medios de comunicación, los departamentos de marketing y relaciones públicas de las empresas, en los gabinetes políticos, las agencias internacionales de la salud, la educación y la cultura, de las ONG y de las cadenas de restaurantes. Como es natural, la enseñanza de metodologías de investigación se halla presente en casi todos los planes de estudios de las facultades de comunicación, en forma autónoma y con una tradición propia que la diferencia de la investigación sociológica. La bibliografía, sin embargo, ha seguido un camino menos dinámico que la evolución de la comunicación. Los estudiantes y quienes se acercan a la investigación desde la empresa o las instituciones se encuentran con el Olimpo de autores clásicos pertenecientes a las teorías de la comunicación, o bien, con una gran cantidad de publicaciones de carácter enciclopédico pero donde escasean los ejemplos y los estudios de caso. Internet y los recursos digitales, hoy extendidos por el mundo, se hallan ausentes en la mayoría de los manuales al uso. La nueva realidad comunicativa y la sociedad digital exigen una renovación inmediata. Este libro es un manual práctico. Se apoya, sin embargo, en las metodologías de mayor prestigio y eficacia en el ámbito de la comunicación, así como en la extensa experiencia de docencia e investigación de sus autores. Como no podía ser menos, se han incorporado consejos y aplicaciones de investigación en Internet, indispensable como fuente de recursos de la comunicación en la era digital.

Este libro fue la culminación de los estudios de Marshall McLuhan en relación a la red electrónica universal de finales del s.XX. Cuando McLuhan publicó Understanding Media en 1964, no existían los medios de comunicación tal como los conocemos en la actualidad, ni tal como eran a finales del s.XX. Sin embargo, la tesis de McLuhan sobreque las extensiones tecnológicas de la conciencia humana se adelantaban a nuestra capacidad para las comprender las consecuencias, nunca ha sido tan adecuada. Si el medio es el mensaje, el mensaje se está volviendo casi imposible de descifrar. En La aldea global, McLuhan y Bruce R. Powers proponen un marco conceptual detallado en cuyos términos pueden comprenderse los avances tecnológicos de las tres últimas décadas. Como núcleo desarrollan de su teoría de que los usuarios de la tecnología están condicionados por dos formas distintas de percibir el mundo. Por un lado, está lo que ellos llaman Espacio Visual (la forma de percepción lineal, cuantitativa, característica del mundo occidental); y por el otro, el Espacio Acústico (el razonamiento holístico, cualitativo, de Oriente). Según ellos, los nuevos medios tecnológicos estimulaban el Espacio Acústico y consideraban que la llegada de la globalización no sería gradual y equitativa en todas partes. McLuhan y Powers vuelven en este libro a mostrar que su espíritu visionario con las nuevas tecnologías fue una vez más acertado. Y nos plantean desde el pasado una reflexión interesante sobre los medios actuales.

This book explores transmedia dynamics in various facets of fiction and nonfiction transmedia studies. Moving beyond the presentation/definition of transmediality as a field of study, the authors examine novel advancements in the theory, methodological development, and strategic planning of transmedia storytelling.Drawing upon a theoretical foundation grounded in Peircean semiotics and reflected in the methodological approaches to fiction and nonfiction transmedia projects, the chapters delve into diverse case studies, such as The Handmaid's Tale and mega sporting events like the Olympics and FIFA World Cup, that illustrate the applications of our own methods and the implications of the logic behind transmedia dynamics. Expanding upon their own scholarship, the authors tackle the relevant topic of transmedia journalism, and present new approaches to transmedia strategic planning around educational initiatives in developing countries. The book is an important reference for scholars and students of media studies, education, journalism and transmedia, and those interested in comprehending theory, methodological development, and strategic planning of transmediality.

The Language of New Media Design is an innovative new textbook presenting methods on the design and analysis of a variety of non-linear texts, from websites to CD-Roms. Integrating theory and practice, the book explores a range of models for analyzing and constructing multimedia products. For each model the authors outline the theoretical background and demonstrate usage from students'coursework, commonly available websites and other multimedia products. Assuming no prior knowledge, the book adopts an accessible approach to the subject which has been trialled and tested on MA students at the London College of Communication. Written by experienced authors, this textbook will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers of new media design, information technology, linguistics and semiotics.

Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media, cultural studies and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies is the definitive volume for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of transmediality. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualize, problematize and scrutinize the current status and future directions of transmediality, exploring the industries, arts, practices, cultures, and methodologies of studying convergent media across multiple platforms.

A distanza di quindici anni dalla pubblicazione del manuale Teorie delle comunicazioni di massa di Sara Bentivegna, che si è imposto come testo di riferimento per numerosissimi corsi universitari, un libro completamente nuovo rilegge le teorie classiche alla luce della rivoluzione digitale. I mass media manipolano l'opinione pubblica? In quali modi? Con il passaggio al digitale stiamo assistendo alla costruzione di nuove forme di propaganda? Come leggere fenomeni come le fake news, le echo chambers o la polarizzazione dei pubblici online? Gli autori rispondono a queste domande esponendo le diverse teorie che hanno accompagnato lo sviluppo e l'affermazione delle comunicazioni di massa e rileggendone gli strumenti concettuali alla luce della rivoluzione digitale degli ultimi anni. Descrivono, inoltre, in modo puntuale le principali trasformazioni che riguardano il potere dei media nei processi di costruzione della realtà sociale e nei confronti dell'audience.

Dieser Band versammelt interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zum Zusammenhang von Mediatisierung, Digitalisierung und Ökonomisierung und bietet eine ethische Reflexion derselben an. Beleuchtet werden philosophische, ökonomische, rechtliche, pädagogische und psychologische Aspekte, von denen der Mensch im digitalen Zeitalter betroffen ist. Kernfragen sind dabei: Bedarf der Metaprozess der Mediatisierung neuer anthropologischer Grundannahmen in Hinblick auf medien- und kommunikationsethische Fragestellungen? Welcher ethische Reflexionsbedarf ist angezeigt? Welche Handlungs- und Entscheidungsoptionen ergeben sich für Individuen, Organisationen und Institutionen im digitalen Zeitalter? Welche Gestaltungs- und Widerstandsformen bieten sich an?

Je digitaler und technischer unsere Umwelt wird, umso mehr suchen wir nach Orientierung. Digitaler Wandel heißt Informationsflut, ständige Neuerungen und Verlust an Privatsphäre. Was kann uns Halt geben? Einige vormals grundlegende, traditionelle Orientierungsgeber wie Print-Medien oder das klassische Fernsehen weichen individualisierbaren Digital-Diensten und haben ihre Rolle weitgehend verloren. Orientierung im digitalen Zeitalter impliziert neue Bildungsanforderungen an die Kommunikations- und Kulturwissenschaften. Mit diesem Buch bereitet Anabel Ternès von Hattburg die Grundlage für ein neues Orientierungsmodell, das im digitalen Wandel Halt geben kann und auf Transparenz sowie einer kritischen Hinterfragung basiert.

This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the developing field of media archaeology. It explores the relationship between theory and practice and the relationship between media archaeology and other disciplines. There are three sections to the collection proposing new possible fields of research for media studies: Media Archaeological Theory; Experimental Media Archaeology; Media Archaeology at the Interface. The book includes essays from acknowledged experts in this expanding field, such as Thomas Elsaesser, Wanda Strauven and Jussi Parikka.

The concept of immersive multimedia, which is closely related to concepts of augmented reality, brings opportunities in art, education, entertainment, and technology. As such, it is vital to explore the connections between consumers of media content and information parts that come from multimedia platforms. Trends, Experiences, and Perspectives in Immersive Multimedia and Augmented Reality is a critical scholarly resource that offers solutions to the problems that appear in both theoretical and practical dimensions of immersive multimedia experiences on an interdisciplinary platform. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cyber behavior, human-computer interaction, and transmedia, this book is geared towards digital artists, media professionals, developers, academicians, researchers, and upper-level graduate students seeking current research on the exploration of immersive multimedia through the perspectives of technology, communications, and art.

The philosophy of technology suggests that rather than technologies being simply useful tools, they also have an often relatively unnoticed or subconscious impact upon the way we live our lives - our interactions with the world, and the way we think. Seen in this way, all media technologies might affect our metaphysical sense of time, space and force through their relative ability to represent these concepts. In The Digital Image and Reality, digital visual technologies are examined through their radically different capacities for representation and simulation and the challenges that they pose to our understanding of the world. I analyse how digital images are well suited to graphical imagination and speculation about the nature of material reality. What is suggested throughout the book is that digital visual technologies offer a new sensual image of the world, subtly impacting not simply our subjective perception or consciousness of reality, but perhaps objective actuality itself.

A first-of-its-kind analysis of the growth of new media in Digital India from a broad communications and interdisciplinary perspective Can new media help in bringing about development or contribute to social movements? Who is left out of the new media equation? How is the public sphere affected by it? How will it be regulated? Providing answers to these important questions, this book critically examines the growth of new media in India. It looks at how new media can be theorized in the Indian context and offers a perspective on the opportunities and challenges this poses to governance, development, and businesses as well as in social marketing efforts. With the government and the corporate sector's growing emphasis on ‘Digital India', India Connected creatively delves into various aspects such as digitization, convergence, interactivity, and ubiquity, which are affecting the Indian media landscape.

Denominado Jornalismo Estruturado nos Estados Unidos, o tema desenvolvido nesta obra é pioneiro no Brasil: a produção, a hierarquização e a classificação de notícias no ambiente Web envolvem não apenas variáveis humanas, mas também (e cada vez mais) computacionais. Algoritmos e sistemas culminam com a automatização de processos e produtos procurando por qualidade, clareza, profundidade, precisão e formas de organização. É dessa combinação que emergem os metadados, conceito indispensável para compreender novos modelos de uso e reaproveitamento da informação. Enquadrar as variáveis humanas e computacionais a partir dos metadados exige visão crítica e postura interdisciplinar, algo desejado neste livro.

Reading the news has come a long way thanks to technology, from black and white newspapers to 280-character tweets and Buzzfeed articles filled with GIFs and memes. In Online News in the Disruptors in Tech series, readers will discover how technology has and continues to disrupt the media. Series includes a table of contents, tech-forward sidebars, a timeline, glossary, index, and author biography.

Media Management and Digital Transformation provides novel and empirically rich insights into the tensions, struggles and innovations of news making and managing in media organizations. From an empirically grounded perspective this book investigates how the'buzz'of new technology tends to prevent management from seeing which changes are needed and indeed possible to make in the newsroom. It presents ground-breaking research showing that fostering ingenious, innovative solutions can be created from within organizations by engaging and allowing employees to recognize problems, reflect and experiment with new ways of working, using technology as support for change. The research presented arises from a four-year action research project in collaboration with three small and medium-sized Norwegian newspapers, in addition to ethnographic research in newsrooms and on media organizations and phenomena in the USA and Europe. It includes among other empirical examples of newsrooms transitioning from a deadline-controlled workflow to an open-ended flowline production, and provides new tools and methods for fostering collaborative creativity and co-creative innovation practices. It also looks into newsrooms'attempts to strengthen their audience engagement, metrics performance and external collaborations with technology providers, journalism education and action researchers.With theoretical chapters, methodological insights and qualitative case studies of contemporary practices, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners involved with media management globally.

In 1991, Mark Weiser and his team at Xerox PARC declared they were reinventing computers for the twenty-first century. The computer would become integrated into the fabric of everyday life; it would shift to the background rather than being itself an object of focus. The resulting rise of ubiquitous computing (smartphones, smartglasses, smart cities) have since thoroughly colonized our digital landscape. In Actionable Media, John Tinnell contends that there is an unsung rhetorical dimension to Weiser's legacy, which stretches far beyond recent iProducts. Taking up Weiser's motto,'Start from the arts and humanities,'Tinnell develops a theoretical framework for understanding nascent initiatives--the Internet of things, wearable interfaces, augmented reality--in terms of their intellectual history, their relationship to earlier communication technologies, and their potential to become vibrant platforms for public culture and critical media production. It is clear that an ever-widening array of everyday spaces now double as venues for multimedia authorship. Writers, activists, and students, in cities and towns everywhere, are digitally augmenting physical environments. Audio walks embed narratives around local parks for pedestrians to encounter during a stroll; online forums are woven into urban infrastructure and suburban plazas to invigorate community politics. This new wave of digital communication, which Tinnell terms'actionable media,'is presented through case studies of exemplar projects by leading artists, designers, and research-creation teams. Chapters alter notions of ubiquitous computing through concepts drawn from Bernard Stiegler, Gregory Ulmer, and Hannah Arendt; from comparative media analyses with writing systems such as cuneiform, urban signage, and GUI software; and from relevant stylistic insights gleaned from the open air arts practices of Augusto Boal, Claude Monet, and Janet Cardiff. Actionable Media challenges familiar claims about the combination of physical and digital spaces, beckoning contemporary media studies toward an alternative substrate of historical precursors, emerging forms, design philosophies, and rhetorical principles.

Comment l'apport du concept transmédia peut transformer l'École.L'étymologie est clef pour comprendre le concept transmédia et en appréhender les enjeux : le préfixe vient de la préposition latine « trans », qui signifie « par-delà ». Sa présence indique un passage, un changement. Ainsi, le passage d'un média à l'autre opère-t-il en quelque sorte une transformation. L'objet de ce livre est de montrer comment l'apport du concept transmédia peut transformer l'École.Avec le développement de l'Éducation aux médias, et l'apprentissage des compétences translittératiques à l'école, les contenus transmédia suscitent aujourd'hui l'intérêt des enseignants tant pour leur exploitation pédagogique que pour la mise en œuvre de productions adaptées à leurs besoins propres. Vous voulez capter l'attention de vos élèves? Les faire participer à vos cours? Utiliser de nouvelles techniques pour renforcer l'impact de votre enseignement? Vous avez besoin de ce livre! Ce n'est pas compliqué, ce n'est pas de la science-fiction ; ce sont des exemples à mettre en œuvre et à faire évoluer, ici et maintenant. Transformer l'École, il ne suffit pas d'en parler, il faut le faire, et ne pas être conformiste quant aux moyens, à commencer par ceux qui ont prouvé leur efficacité : le concept transmédia en est un. Osez l'expérimenter!Vous voulez capter l'attention de vos élèves? Les faire participer à vos cours? Utiliser de nouvelles techniques pour renforcer l'impact de votre enseignement? Vous avez besoin de ce livre!EXTRAITVous pouvez mettre en avant ce travail en le publiant sur le site de votre établissement ou sur un wiki dédié, en communiquant sur les comptes des réseaux sociaux auquel vous êtes inscrits. Le réseau Framasoft en faveur selon ses termes : « d'un internet libre, décentralisé éthique et solidaire » met à notre disposition tout une gamme d'outils issus du monde du logiciel libre sur lequel nous pouvons nous appuyer. Et pour booster encore plus vos projets, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part. Nous pouvons les relayer par des billets, les réseaux sociaux et outils de curation, sur la page Éducation du site TransmediaReady et sur les comptes dédiés sur Twitter et Facebook… Ne négligez pas cette phase de votre projet. Elle est essentielle pour élargir le cycle de vie de vos contenus.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUREmmanuel Bethoux questionne l'émergence d'œuvres transmédia dans sa pratique professionnelle et sa discipline au sein du monde de l'éducation. Sa réflexion actuelle s'appuie sur une curation régulière confortant le choix d'un nouveau cap professionnel comme formateur transmédia dans le cadre d'une formation au e-learning et la facilitation d'ateliers avec Transmedia Ready. Par ailleurs, il exerce son activité de professeur documentaliste, certifié depuis 2003, au sein de l'enseignement catholique depuis 1994, actuellement au lycée-collège européen du Saint Cœur en Bourgogne.

How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media economy? Why are we now fixated on screens, imbibing information that constantly expires, and longing for more direct or authentic kinds of experience? The Mediated Mind answers these questions by revisiting a previous media revolution, the nineteenth-century explosion of mass print. Like our own smartphone screens, printed paper and imprinted objects touched the most intimate regions of nineteenth-century life. The rise of this printed ephemera, and its new information economy, generated modern consumer experiences such as voracious collecting and curating, fantasies of disembodied mental travel, and information addiction. Susan Zieger demonstrates how the nineteenth century established affective, psychological, social, and cultural habits of media consumption that we still experience, even as pixels supersede paper. Revealing the history of our own moment, The Mediated Mind challenges the commonplace assumption that our own new media lack a past, or that our own experiences are unprecedented.

مع استخدام مصطلح الاعلام الجديد عللى مدى عقود يتساءل المرء الان عما اذا كان لايزال من الممكن اعتبار الاشكال و المنصات الرقميه المبتكره جديده بالاساس

Axel Kuhn de- und rekonstruiert die bisherige Forschung zu Zeitschriften und Medienunterhaltung und entwickelt einen interdisziplinär-integrativen soziokulturellen Rahmen für weitere Erkenntnisse. Hierzu bestimmt er Zeitschriften historisch als sich evolutionär entwickelnde Formen des Mediensystems, die einen Beitrag zur Stabilisierung der modernen Gesellschaft leisten, sowie Medienunterhaltung als deren funktionales Prinzip. Dabei weist er nach, dass Medienunterhaltung entgegen der Meinung kultureller Eliten weder trivial noch nutzlos ist, sondern die zunehmende Komplexität lebensweltlicher Möglichkeiten und sozialer Strukturen verarbeitet. Sie wird dabei als Erfolgsmedium und Programm des Mediensystems bestimmt, anhand der historisch parallelen Entwicklung der Zeitschrift veranschaulicht und in ihrer Funktion der wechselseitigen Transformation des Mediensystems und der Gesellschaft verortet.

What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McStay explores that very question and argues that these abilities result in a form of technological empathy. Offering a balanced and incisive overview of the issues raised by ‘Emotional AI', this book: Provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots Demonstrates through empirical research how ‘empathic media'have been developed and introduced both by start-ups and global tech corporations such as Facebook Helps readers understand the potential implications on everyday life and social relations through examples such as video-gaming, facial coding, virtual reality and cities Calls for a more critical approach to the rollout of emotional AI in public and private spheres Combining established theory with original analysis, this book will change the way students view, use and interact with new technologies. It should be required reading for students and researchers in media, communications, the social sciences and beyond.

يعتمد هذا الكتاب على القضايا والمفاهيم الاستدلالية موضحًا المقصود بهما من خلال نطاق من المجالات النموذجية، ويتناول هذا الكتاب التكنولوجيا وأشكال الإعلام القائمة والناشئة، كما يركز على الأساليب - مثل'الإعلام الجديد'- التي يمكن من خلالها تمثيل أشكال متعددة من المعالجة، وكذلك التقارب الاجتماعي والثقافي والتكنولوجي. علاوة على ذلك فإن هذا الكتاب مقسم إلى أجزاء فرعية وهي: الثقافة والهوية، والسياسة، والمشاركة، والمواطنة، والمعرفة، والأجيال الجديدة إلى جانب تتناول بعض القضايا التقليدية مثل: الدراسات الإعلامية والاتصالات - والدراسات الإعلامية الثقافية، وبعض القضايا الأخرى التي تتعلق بالهوية والعلاقات والمعنى والمعرفة.

مع استخدام مصطلح الاعلام الجديد عللى مدى عقود يتساءل المرء الان عما اذا كان لايزال من الممكن اعتبار الاشكال و المنصات الرقميه المبتكره جديده بالاساس

ديناميكية هذا الكتاب كالآتي : إن سلسلة ديناميكية الإعلام الجديد'تتخذ موقفًا براجماتيًا تجاه الموضوعات التعريفية؛ ولذلك : لأنها'جديدًا'فإن هذا النوع من الإعلام يرتبط بعصر ما بعد الإذاعة من وسائل اتصال تفاعلية وتشاركية وذلك باستخدام الإمكانيات الرقمية المتصلة بشبكة الإنترنت وأيضاً لأنها'إعلامًا'، فإنه يمكن استخدام هذه التطبيقات، التي حققت انتشارًا مطلقًا بين الشعوب والأقاليم، من جانب المستهلك العادي (وهو ما يتعارض مع الخبراء المختصين) ولاسيما عندما يكون هذا النطاق الشعبي منتجًا في حد ذاته لإمكانيات'جديدة'أو غير مسبوقة.

Now in its Third Edition, Mass Media Revolution remains a dynamic guide to the world of mass media, enhancing its readers'development as critical consumers. The text employs a storytelling narrative style and integrated, chapter-specific digital material, providing a seamless learning experience. It features a wealth of expanded content—with particular attention to diversity in the media industry, reality TV, ethics and social media, and the evolution of online journalism. Chapter content, both print and online, is aligned to the ACEJMC national academic standards. Along with student video resources, this text includes an accompanying instructor resource manual and Power Point slides. All supplementary materials can be found at massmediarev.com.

„Was leisten die Medien?“ So lautet die prägnante Leitfrage, der sich Claudia Mast in ihrer Habilitationsschrift zuwandte. 1986 im Fromm-Verlag erschienen, analysierte der Band den funktionalen Strukturwandel in den Kommunikationssystemen jener Jahre – und legte den Grundstein für drei Jahrzehnte der Forschung und Lehre am Fachgebiet für Kommunikationswissenschaft, insb. Journalistik der Universität Hohenheim. Anlässlich dieses Jubiläums diskutieren die ehemaligen Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden des Fachgebiets die Kernideen ihrer Dissertationsthemen. Der Band'Was leisten die Medien – revisited'bündelt erstmals die Themen der „Hohenheimer Schule“ rund um die Frage nach Leistungen der Medien und von Kommunikation.