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Digital Media Ecologies

Author : Sy Taffel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501349252
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Digital Media Ecologies written by Sy Taffel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers. Digital Media Ecologies re-envisions the methodological approach of media ecology to go beyond the metaphor of a symbolic information environment that exists alongside a material world of tantalum, turtles and tornados. It illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, climate change blogging, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by a heterogeneous array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems.

Emerging Digital Media Ecologies

Author : Toija Cinque
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032013190
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Digital Media Ecologies written by Toija Cinque and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Digital Media Ecologies investigates the profound ways in which digital media reshapes our cultural, socio-technological, political, and natural landscapes. Through interdisciplinary empirical and creative case studies, the book illuminates the nuances of medialogy, emphasizing the often-underestimated impact of emerging technologies across interactive education, data gathering, visual-data representations, and creative practice. It explores the intersection of the natural and technological worlds, contextualizing our use of natural resources against climate change and sustainable economies. Divided into two parts, the book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of digital media ecologies and their practical applications. Part One traces the evolution of media technologies, examining their environmental impact and the foundational approaches to understanding media's complex interconnections. Part Two focuses on contemporary issues such as hyper-personalized media, digital literacy, and the transformative power of Indigenous media narratives. Additionally, the monograph explores the revolutionary role of artificial intelligence and large language models like ChatGPT in shaping our digital future. It investigates how AI transforms creative practices, data processing, and communication, contributing to the formation of new media ecologies. The ethical implications, commodification, identity formation, and the impact of AI-driven technologies on everyday life are critically examined, offering insights into the future of human-technology interactions. This book is a crucial reference for scholars, practitioners, and students in digital humanities, media studies, environmental humanities, and anyone interested in the cultural implications of emerging digital technologies and their impact on our environment and society.

Media, knowledge & education

Author : Theo Hug
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783902571670
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Media, knowledge & education written by Theo Hug and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Media Ecologies

Author : Matthew Fuller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262062473
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Media Ecologies written by Matthew Fuller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance.

Millennials and Media Ecology

Author : Anthony Cristiano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429534922
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Millennials and Media Ecology written by Anthony Cristiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millennials and Media Ecology explores issues pertaining to millennials and digital media ecology and studies the cultural, pedagogical, and political environments such heterogeneous generation populates. The book questions whether millennials are properly understood as a heterogeneous group, particularly by the institutions and agencies that target them, and whether they are demonstrating the ability to set out a path for themselves and take charge of their own life and future. A diverse team of expert authors review past and current studies with critical assessment of arguments and propositions, and document actual experiences of members of the millennial generation through detailed studies. Engaging with topical subject matter and current research on millennials, the chapters: Question the misunderstanding that digital tools and Internet technologies are making the younger generation ‘dumber’ and ‘disengaging’ them from the real world Underscore the legal and economic insights into the commodification of the younger generation as consumers rather than learners Examine the historical trajectory of media technology, and whether new practices are having an empowering effect or one of enslavement to an increasingly irreversible technological and socio-political regime Shed light on issues of critical pedagogy emerging from digital environments in relation to one’s mental abilities and degrees of wisdom Discuss the cultural and political implications of millennials’ new media trends, the changing relationship between millennials and legacy media, which rely on the younger generation for survival;Offer new insights into the significance of current media trends in relation to issue of credibility and identity. This is an essential book for scholars in the fields of Media and Communications and Popular Culture, and will be vital reading for postgraduate students and specialists in related fields.

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Author : Justin Hodgson
Publisher : Rhetoric and Materiality
ISBN 13 : 9780814255261
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic written by Justin Hodgson and published by Rhetoric and Materiality. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues we are in a post-digital moment, where the blurring between the "real" and the "digital" has fundamentally reconfigured how we make sense of the world.

Living and Learning with New Media

Author : Mizuko Ito
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262258277
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Living and Learning with New Media written by Mizuko Ito and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical data on new media in the lives of American youth in order to reflect upon the relationship between new media and learning. In one of the largest qualitative and ethnographic studies of American youth culture, the authors view the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States. The book that this report summarizes was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Reports on Digital Media and Learning

Media Ecologies

Author : Matthew Fuller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026256226X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Media Ecologies written by Matthew Fuller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance. In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems—understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as "things"—have become informational as much as physical, but without losing any of their fundamental materiality. Fuller looks at this multiplicitous materiality—how it can be sensed, made use of, and how it makes other possibilities tangible. He investigates the ways the different qualities in media systems can be said to mix and interrelate, and, as he writes, "to produce patterns, dangers, and potentials." Fuller draws on texts by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze as well as writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway, Friedrich Kittler, and others, to define and extend the idea of "media ecology." Arguing that the only way to find out about what happens when media systems interact is to carry out such interactions, Fuller traces a series of media ecologies—"taking every path in a labyrinth simultaneously," as he describes one chapter. He looks at contemporary London-based pirate radio and its interweaving of high- and low-tech media systems; the "medial will to power" illustrated by "the camera that ate itself"; how, as seen in a range of compelling interpretations of new media works, the capacities and behaviors of media objects are affected when they are in "abnormal" relationships with other objects; and each step in a sequence of Web pages, Cctv—world wide watch, that encourages viewers to report crimes seen via webcams. Contributing to debates around standardization, cultural evolution, cybernetic culture, and surveillance, and inventing a politically challenging aesthetic that links them, Media Ecologies, with its various narrative speeds, scales, frames of references, and voices, does not offer the academically traditional unifying framework; rather, Fuller says, it proposes to capture "an explosion of activity and ideas to which it hopes to add an echo."

Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work

Author : Catherine C Braun
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332973
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work written by Catherine C Braun and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onslaught of the digital age has rapidly redefined the parameters of virtually every aspect of daily life, and the world of academic scholarship is no exception. In English departments across American institutions of higher education, faculty members face an uphill battle in the struggle for professional recognition of their digital works. In Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work, author Catherine C. Braun calls for a shift in thinking about the professional methods and digital goals of the English studies discipline and its central texts. Braun’s in-depth study documents English professors and the challenges they face in both career and classroom as they attempt to gain appropriate value for digital teaching and creation within their field, departments, and institutions. Braun proposes that to move English studies into the future, three main questions must be addressed. First, what counts as a text? How should we approach the reading of texts? Finally, how should we approach the production of texts? In addition to reconsidering the nature of texts in English studies, she calls for crucial changes in higher-education institutional procedures themselves, including new methods of evaluating digital scholarship on an even playing field with other forms of work during the processes for promotion and tenure. With insightful expertise, Braun analyzes how the new age of digital scholarship not only complements the traditional values of the English studies discipline but also offers constructive challenges to old ideas about texts, methods, and knowledge production. Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work is the first volume to offer specific examination of the digital shift’s impact on English studies and provides the scaffold upon which productive conversations about the future of the field and digital pedagogy can be built.

Sustainable Media

Author : Nicole Starosielski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317745825
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Media written by Nicole Starosielski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human resources during media production to the installation and disposal of media in the landscape; from people’s engagement with environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the mediating properties of ecologies themselves. Edited by Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker, the assembled chapters expose how the social and representational practices of media culture are necessarily caught up with technologies, infrastructures, and environments.Through in-depth analyses of media theories, practices, and objects including cell phone towers, ecologically-themed video games, Geiger counters for registering radiation, and sound waves traveling through the ocean, contributors question the sustainability of the media we build, exchange, and inhabit and chart emerging alternatives for media ecologies.

Understanding New Media

Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433111266
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Understanding New Media written by Robert K. Logan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his predictions that the Internet would become a «Global Village», making us more interconnected than television; the closing of the gap between consumers and producers; the elimination of space and time as barriers to communication; and the melting of national borders. He is also famously remembered for coining the expression «the medium is the message». These predictions form the genesis of this new volume by Robert Logan, a friend and colleague who worked with McLuhan. In Understanding New Media Logan expertly updates Understanding Media to analyze the «new media» McLuhan foreshadowed and yet was never able to analyze or experience. The book is designed to reach a new generation of readers as well as appealing to scholars and students who are familiar with Understanding Media. Visit the companion website, understandingnewmedia.org, for the latest updates on this book.

Hybrid Media Activism

Author : Emiliano Treré
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131543816X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Hybrid Media Activism written by Emiliano Treré and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries and algorithms to account for the communicative complexity of protest movements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on social movements, collectives and political parties in Spain, Italy and Mexico, this book disentangles the hybrid nature of contemporary activism. It shows how activists operate merging the physical and the digital, the human and the non-human, the old and the new, the internal and the external, the corporate and the alternative. The author illustrates the ambivalent character of contemporary digital activism, demonstrating that media imaginaries can be either used to conceal authoritarianism, or to reimagine democracy. The book looks at both side of algorithmic power, shedding light on strategies of repression and propaganda, and scrutinizing manifestations of algorithms as appropriation and resistance. The author analyses the way in which digital activism is not an immediate solution to intricate political problems, and argues that it can only be effective when a set of favourable social, political, and cultural conditions align. Assessing whether digital activism can generate and sustain long-term processes of social and political change, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching radical politics, social movements, digital activism, political participation and current affairs more generally.

Digital Roots

Author : Gabriele Balbi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110740281
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Digital Roots written by Gabriele Balbi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.

Media Ecology/Archeoloy

Author : Andrew Hoskins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415694094
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Media Ecology/Archeoloy written by Andrew Hoskins and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Ecology explores the idea of a life lived in and through immersion in an environment of digital media and technologies, and the life of media and technologies themselves. The increasing convergence on the digital form has been accompanied by a new fluidity between interconnected devices and digital media devices now carry, connect to, communicate with and allow the creation and sharing of hybrid, perpetually remixed content. This proliferation of media forms, cultures and experiences takes us beyond the broadcast-era dominance of a limited number of forms (newspapers, radio, cinema and television) exposing a much more complex 'media ecology'. Hoskins and Merrin argue that the move to the post-broadcast era exposes the limitations of the established academic media histories of the broadcast-era. Their linear histories of the rise and interrelation of the main forms that dominated the 20th century are important but don't help us understand the contemporary digital environment. For this we need to move beyond the privileging of print, radio, film and TV and re-immerse within a broader history of technological development and use. What is now needed therefore is a turn to media ecology, to understand how media environments and relationships are formed and transformed; and a turn to media archaeology, to understand how media technologies historically evolve. These approaches allow us to understand the specific evolving ecology and history of our contemporary digital media worlds.

Media and the Ecological Crisis

Author : Richard Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113462736X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Media and the Ecological Crisis written by Richard Maxwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to inform, educate, and advocate for real, environmentally sound changes in design, policy, industrial, and consumer practices. Aligned with an emerging area of scholarship devoted to identifying and analysing the material physical links of media technologies, cultural production, and environment, it contributes to the project of greening media studies by raising awareness of media technology’s concrete environmental effects.

The Ethics of Emerging Media

Author : Bruce E. Drushel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441100253
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Emerging Media written by Bruce E. Drushel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethics of Emerging Media engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. This collection provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe. Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each chapter raises questions about how changing media formats affect current theoretical understanding of ethics. By interrogating traditional ethical theory, we can better understand the challenges to ethical decision making in an age of rapidly evolving media. Each chapter focuses on a specific case within the broader conceptual fabric of ethical theory. The case studies ground the discussion of ethics in practical applications while, at the same time, addressing moral dilemmas that have plagued us for generations. The specific applications will undoubtedly continue to unfold, but the ethical questions will endure.

New Documentary Ecologies

Author : K. Nash
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137310499
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book New Documentary Ecologies written by K. Nash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a unique collection of perspectives on the persistence of documentary as a vital and dynamic media form within a digital world, New Documentary Ecologies traces this form through new opportunities of creating media, new platforms of distribution and new ways for audiences to engage with the real.