Digital Futures For Cultural And Media Studies

Author : John Hartley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470671009

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Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies by John Hartley Pdf

An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate social media, participatory action, and user-creativity Leads the way for new interdisciplinary engagement with systems thinking, complexity and evolutionary sciences, and the convergence of cultural and economic values Analyzes the historical uses of multimedia from print, through broadcasting to the internet Combines conceptual innovation with historical erudition to present a high-level synthesis of ideas and detailed analysis of emergent forms and practices Features an international focus and global reach to provide a basis for students and researchers seeking broader perspectives

Author : Arthur Kroker,Marilouise Kroker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781442614666

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Critical Digital Studies by Arthur Kroker,Marilouise Kroker Pdf

An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish."--Publisher description.

Author : Toija Cinque,Jordan Beth Vincent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501361272

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Materializing Digital Futures by Toija Cinque,Jordan Beth Vincent Pdf

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices - computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us - through touch, movement, sound and vision - that is the heart of screen media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on digital media's currently evolving transformation and transforming capacity this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the representation of data and creative practice. Issues around commodification, identity, identification, and political economy are critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and perceptions that are brought to bear.

Author : Glen Creeber,Royston Martin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335237548

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Digital Culture by Glen Creeber,Royston Martin Pdf

Everything you need to know about new media in one accessible, easy to navigate volume! From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Theft Auto to Second Life - this book explores new media’s most important issues and debates in an accessible and engaging text for newcomers to the field. With technological change continuing to unfold at an incredible rate, Digital Cultures rounds-up major events in the media’s recent past to help develop a clear understanding of the theoretical and practical debates that surround this emerging discipline. It addresses issues such as: What is new media? How is new media changing our lives? Is new media having a positive or negative effect on culture and human communication? Each chapter contains case studies which provide an interesting and lively balance between the well-trodden and the newly emerging themes in the field. Topics covered include digital television, digital cinema, gaming, digital democracy, mobile phones, the World Wide Web, digital news, online social networking, music and multimedia, virtual communities and the digital divide. Digital Cultures is an essential introductory guide for all media and communication studies students, as well as those with a general interest in new media and its impact on the world around us.

Author : John Hartley,Wen Wen,Henry Siling Li
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473933569

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Creative Economy and Culture by John Hartley,Wen Wen,Henry Siling Li Pdf

"The most ambitious, thoughtful and internationally aware assessment to date of the creative economy. Defining creativity as the production of newness in complex, adaptive systems, the authors make the case that together the creative economy, along with other cultural outputs, represent a planet-wide innovation capability which marks an epochal turn in human affairs." – Ian Hargreaves, CBE, Professor of Digital Economy, Cardiff University Creativity, new ideas and innovation - and with them the growth of knowledge - have spilled out of the lab, studio and factory into the street, scene, and social media. Now, everyday life is productive, everyone is creative, and new ideas can come from anywhere around the world. Instead of confining cultural expression to talented artists and expert professionals, this book investigates creative new ideas from everyone. Instead of confining the ‘creative industries’ to one sector of the economy and one type of productivity, this book extends the idea of creative innovation to everything. Instead of confining the growth of knowledge to wealthy countries or markets, this book looks for it in developing and emergent countries, everywhere. The productivity of creativity can now be seen as a global phenomenon. It demands a systems-based and dynamic mode of explanation. Creative Economy and Culture pursues the conceptual, historical, practical, critical and educational issues and implications. It looks at conceptual challenges, the forces and dynamics of change, and prospects for the future of creative work at planetary scale. It is essential reading for upper level students and researchers of the creative and cultural industries across media and cultural studies, communication and sociology.

Author : Marilyn Deegan,Simon Tanner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1856045803

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Digital Futures by Marilyn Deegan,Simon Tanner Pdf

Libraries have been traditionally associated with managing physical resources, however with the rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic communication media, information gathering, storage and transmission have presented fresh challenges to those responsible for preserving the cultural memory of society. This book examines the strategic issues involved in realizing a digital future for libraries in the information age. It looks at how librarians and information professionals can locate the electronic resources most relevant to the needs of their users, integrate these resources into the infrastructure of their institutions, manage the necessary technology and anticipate future trends in the digital age. Topics covered include: the effect of information and communications in the digital world upon libraries and information organizations the role of the library and the librarian in the digital age economic factors, cultural resource management, technology impact, and knowledge management in the digital library environment preservation of material culture through digitization and preservation of digital objects case studies demonstrating the digital information impact upon national, academic, public and transnational organizations worldwide. Readership: An indispensable guide for all information professionals - including librarians, library and information managers and archivists - wanting to keep abreast of developments in communications technologies, manage change in the library environment, and implement new modes and methods of resource management. It will also be of interest to students on library and information studies courses.

Author : Sonia Livingstone,Alicia Blum-Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780190874698

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Parenting for a Digital Future by Sonia Livingstone,Alicia Blum-Ross Pdf

"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with diverse parents, this book reveals how digital technologies give personal and political parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, or support. The book reveals the pincer movement of parenting in late modernity. Parents are both more burdened with responsibilities and charged with respecting the agency of their child-leaving much to negotiate in today's "democratic" families. The book charts how parents now often enact authority and values through digital technologies-as "screen time," games, or social media become ways of both being together and setting boundaries. The authors show how digital technologies introduce both valued opportunities and new sources of risk. To light their way, parents comb through the hazy memories of their own childhoods and look toward varied imagined futures. This results in deeply diverse parenting in the present, as parents move between embracing, resisting, or balancing the role of technology in their own and their children's lives. This book moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research in the United Kingdom, the book offers conclusions and insights relevant to parents, policymakers, educators, and researchers everywhere"--

Author : Daniel Faltesek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Communication
ISBN : OCLC:1201218303

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New Media Futures by Daniel Faltesek Pdf

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134747061

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Digital Labour and Karl Marx by Christian Fuchs Pdf

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from unpaid social media prosumers or Chinese hardware assemblers at Foxconn to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.

Author : Michael X. Delli Carpini
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812251166

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Digital Media and Democratic Futures by Michael X. Delli Carpini Pdf

The revolution in digital communications has altered the relationship between citizens and political elites, with important implications for democracy. As new information ecosystems have evolved, as unforeseen examples of their positive and negative consequences have emerged, and as theorizing, data, and research methods have expanded and improved, the central question has shifted from if the digital information environment is good or bad for democratic politics to how and in what contexts particular attributes of this environment are having an influence. It is only through the careful analysis of specific cases that we can begin to build a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the role of digital media in democratic theory and practice. The essays in Digital Media and Democratic Futures focus on a variety of information and communication technologies, politically relevant actors, substantive issues, and digital political practices, doing so from distinct theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Individually, each of these case studies provides deep insights into the complex and context-dependent relationship between media and democracy. Collectively, they show that there is no single outcome for democracy in the digital age, only a range of possible futures. Contributors: Rena Bivens, Michael X. Delli Carpini, Jennifer Earl, Thomas Elliott, Deen Freelon, Kelly Gates, Philip N. Howard, Daniel Kreiss, Ting Luo, Helen Nissenbaum, Beth Simone Noveck, Jennifer Pan, Lisa Poggiali, Daniela Stockmann.

Author : Angharad N. Valdivia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405171953

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A Companion to Media Studies by Angharad N. Valdivia Pdf

A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by an international team to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant Now available in paperback for the course market.

Author : Adi Kuntsman,Liu Xin
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803822013

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Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures by Adi Kuntsman,Liu Xin Pdf

Digital politics is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap, initiating conversations about digital politics to a range of disciplines, developing new pedagogy for the field.

Author : Christoph Ernst,Jens Schröter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030804886

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Media Futures by Christoph Ernst,Jens Schröter Pdf

This book deals with the connection between media and the future. It is about the imagination of futuristic media and what this says about the present, but it also shows how media are imagined as means to control the future. The book begins by describing different theories of the evolution of media and by exploring how this evolution is tied to expectations regarding the future. The authors discuss the theories of imagination and how the imagination of media futures operates. To do so, they analyse four concrete examples: the imaginations once related to interactive television and how they were performed in an important piece of media art; those on “ubiquitous computing,” which remain present today; those on three-dimensional, especially holographic, displays that are prevalent everywhere in cinema, and lastly the contemporary imaginations on quantum computing and how they have been enacted in science fiction. The book appeals to readers interested in the question of how our present imagines its technological futures.

Author : Meenakshi Gigi Durham,Douglas M. Kellner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405150309

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Media and Cultural Studies by Meenakshi Gigi Durham,Douglas M. Kellner Pdf

Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, thisacclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture,media, and communication. A fully revised new edition of the bestselling anthology inthis dynamic and multidisciplinary field New contributions include essays from Althusser through toHenry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization andSocial Movements Retains important emphasis on the giant thinkers and“makers” of the field: Gramsci on hegemony; Althusseron ideology; Horkheimer and Adorno on the culture industry; RaymondWilliams on Marxist cultural theory; Habermas on the public sphere;McLuhan on media; Chomsky on propaganda; hooks and Mulvey on thesubjects of visual pleasure and oppositional gazes Features a substantial critical introduction, short sectionintroductions and full bibliographic citations

Author : William Merrin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136186073

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Media Studies 2.0 by William Merrin Pdf

Media Studies 2.0 offers an exploration of the digital revolution and its consequences for media and communication studies, arguing that the new era requires an upgraded discipline: a media studies 2.0. The book traces the history of mass-media and computing, exploring their merger at the end of the twenty-century and the material, ecological, cultural and personal elements of this digital transformation. It considers the history of media and communication studies, arguing that the academic discipline was a product of the analogue, broadcast-era, emerging in the early twentieth century as a response to the success of newspapers, radio and cinema and reflecting that era back in its organisation, themes and concepts. Digitalisation, however, takes us beyond this analogue era (media studies 1.0) into a new, post-broadcast era. Merrin argues that the digital-era demands an upgraded academic discipline: one reflecting the real media life of its students and teaching the key skills needed by the twenty-first century user. Media 2.0 demand a media studies 2.0 This original and critical overview of contemporary developments within media studies is ideal for general students of media and communication, as well as those specifically studying new and digital media.