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Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age

Author : Gary Gumpert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195056518
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age written by Gary Gumpert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has the omnipresence of the telephone done to interpersonal communication? How has the portable radio/tape player--whether "Walkman" or "box"--challenged our notions of privacy and personal space? What happens to our aesthetic ideals when an ancient art treasure is moved to a pollution-free environment and an exact replica is put in its place at the original site? How has the use of the "instant replay" in sports broadcasting affected the value of sportsmanship? What are the implications of the fact that a computer engineer has begun to market a tombstone that can deliver a recorded message from the deceased to the survivors? These are but a few of the questions Gary Gumpert asks in this provocative and entertaining assessment of how the communications media and its related technology have altered, reinforced, deemphasized, and redefined our society's values and beliefs. In a world and a society less reliant on the media, values were generally resolved and taught through the traditional institutions of family, school, and church. As Gumpert notes, however, the coming of the electronic age has made us much more reliant on "media relationships" for support and reaction in defining our values. Uncovering hidden media dependencies we tend to suppress, the book abounds in original insights on topics ranging from the intrusion of Muzak into the doctor-patient relationship to the way new audio technology has transformed our perceptions of a great performance. Although values tend to endure, Gumpert observes, they have never been static or constant. With the advent of the new media, he contends, values are being "rocked and tested" at a rate that boggles the mind. This book is a lively meditation on where we have been and where we might be going.

Talking Tombstones

Author : Jesse H. Merrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640796096
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Talking Tombstones written by Jesse H. Merrell and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Talking Tombstones, Jesse H. Merrell triggers lifeless tombstones into revealing heart-tugging stories about the people buried in those graves. You'll feel his pain as he movingly paints a broad panorama of bitterly painful guilt, exposing his remorse for not showing gratitude to his kindhearted father. You'll feel you are sitting right beside him on his haunting, heart-rending, all-night train ride home to his benevolent father's funeral. You'll marvel at the sickly child who became a giant in God's grand army of salvation. You'll appreciate the insightful sermon by the pastor who preached a so-called mean man into heaven--which no one thought possible. You'll laugh at hilarious pranks like you've never imagined, pulled off by imaginative mischief makers in his hometown of Shelby, Alabama. You'll cringe as you see his mother being violently dragged beneath a car--roaring toward a neckbreaking railroad track . . . until heaven intervenes. You'll feel swept into nostalgic memories that will profoundly warm your heart forever. They will also touch your soul--especially as he majestically rivets those memories into things we can all do today to benefit struggling mankind.

Telling History

Author : Joyce M. Thierer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780759113077
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Telling History written by Joyce M. Thierer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling History is a manual for creating well-researched and engaging historical presentations. As museums and other informal learning institutions work to create new and appealing programs, many are turning to dramatic impersonations accompanied by informed discussions to educate their audiences. This book guides the performer through selecting characters, researching and writing scripts, performing for various kinds of audiences, and turning performance into a business. For museums, historic sites, and community organizations, it offers advice on training and funding historical performers, as well as what to expect from professionals who perform at your site.

Talking Tombstones

Author : Ruby Cranor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Talking Tombstones written by Ruby Cranor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age

Author : Gary Gumpert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age written by Gary Gumpert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has the omnipresence of the telephone done to interpersonal communication? How has the portable radio/tape player--whether "Walkman" or "box"--challenged our notions of privacy and personal space? What happens to our aesthetic ideals when an ancient art treasure is moved to a pollution-free environment and an exact replica is put in its place at the original site? How has the use of the "instant replay" in sports broadcasting affected the value of sportsmanship? What are the implications of the fact that a computer engineer has begun to market a tombstone that can deliver a recorded message from the deceased to the survivors? These are but a few of the questions Gary Gumpert asks in this provocative and entertaining assessment of how the communications media and its related technology have altered, reinforced, deemphasized, and redefined our society's values and beliefs. In a world and a society less reliant on the media, values were generally resolved and taught through the traditional institutions of family, school, and church. As Gumpert notes, however, the coming of the electronic age has made us much more reliant on "media relationships" for support and reaction in defining our values. Uncovering hidden media dependencies we tend to suppress, the book abounds in original insights on topics ranging from the intrusion of Muzak into the doctor-patient relationship to the way new audio technology has transformed our perceptions of a great performance. Although values tend to endure, Gumpert observes, they have never been static or constant. With the advent of the new media, he contends, values are being "rocked and tested" at a rate that boggles the mind. This book is a lively meditation on where we have been and where we might be going.

The Bright Country

Author : Harry Middleton
Publisher : Pruett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871089045
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Bright Country written by Harry Middleton and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Middleton lost his job at a prominent magazine, it was but the beginning of what turned out to be a year marked by personal crisis. In the course of that year, as he searched for new work and battled severe depression, he eventually ended up in Denver, where he began exploring the high mountain country west of the city. For Middleton, the turning point in his long journey through life's dark side came with the discovery of a blind brown trout in a Rocky Mountain stream where Middleton spent his every spare moment feeding what he calls his "terrible addiction" to fly fishing. That bright river and the blind trout would assume a larger significance and become for him a metaphor for struggle and survival. Middleton's terms with life as it is, with the fits and starts of the human condition, seems always to involve trout and fly fishing. Middleton's books are dominated not only by memorable rivers and trout but also by some of literature's most colorful, comical, and fascinating people. The Bright Country is no exception. As we follow Middleton on his journey through the terrain of paradise and hell, we meet: Swami Bill, president and CEO of the Holistic Motor Court, Ashram & Coin Laundry in Boulder, Colorado; his main squeeze, the heartbreakingly beautiful Kiwi LaReaux; a short-order cook who spends his nights on the roof of a west Texas hotel looking at the night sky through a cracked telescope; there is the life and death of truth, Dr. truth; the seductive Mi Oh, hostess at the Now & Zen restaurant in Denver; and, of course, the blind brown trout in its blind eyes Middleton finds not dead shadows but living light.

The Audible Past

Author : Jonathan Sterne
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330134
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Audible Past written by Jonathan Sterne and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Mediation, Information, and Communication

Author : Brent D. Ruben
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351317180
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Mediation, Information, and Communication written by Brent D. Ruben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of Information and Behavior shows broad continuities with previous volumes in this series, but it also represents an important evolution. In emphasizing theoretical advances in mediation, information, and communication processes, this volume has unifying themes at the cutting edge of communication research, linking communication with areas as far-ranging as cognitive psychology, intellectual history, social psychology, policy, and macroeconomics. A sampling of the contents indicates both continuities and discontinuities of communication research embodied in this volume. Contributions include Joseph Turow, "Mass Communication as Concept"; Gary Grumpert and Robert Cathcart, "A Theory of Mediation;" Leah Lievrouw and T. Andrew Finn, "Common Dimensions of Communication"; Joshua Meyrowitz, "Mediated and Unmediated Behavior"; Kathleen Reardon, "Teaching Children About AIDS"; Sari Thomas, "The Death of Intellectual History and the Birth of the Transient Past"; Sheizaf Rafaeli, "Interacting with Media." The second part of the work, emphasizing research and policy in specific information societies and regions, includes an opening essay by Everett M. Rogers, and follow-up studies by Judith K. Larsen on "Silicon Valley"; Quentin W. Lindsey on "The North Carolina Research Triangle"; Luis Fonseca, "High Technology in Brazil"; Ruyzo Ogasawara, "High Technology in Japan"; and Mitchell Moss, "Telecommunications and Financial Centers." The final two portions of the book cover social theory and cultural processes. They include articles by Jerry Salvaggio and Richard Nelson, "Models for Developing Telecommunications and Information Industries"; Everett M. Rogers and James Dearing, "University-Industry Technology Transfer"; Frederick Williams, "The Communications Revolution Revisited"; Rolf Wigand, "Recurring Questions about the Information Society"; Lee Thayer, "Tropes and Things"; Gordon L. Miller, "The Energy of Intelligence"; David Carr, "Thinking in Museums;" Benjamin J. Bates, "Information as an Economic Good"; Jorge Schement and Daniel Stout, "A Time-Line of Information Technology."

Death and Digital Media

Author : Michael Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317422058
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Death and Digital Media written by Michael Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.

Beyond Semiotics

Author : Niall Lucy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847140874
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Semiotics written by Niall Lucy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well-established institutionally today--through specialist journals, research centres, international conferences, professional associations and the like--semiotics now seems quaintly out of place in a world where text, culture and technology defy metadisciplinary, if not metaphysical, explanation. When the semiotician has finished explaining the music of Primal Scream, the textuality of an email message or the culture of the internet, most would believe there was still lots to be said. A generation ago, the radical humanities scholar turned to semiotics for the last word on news production, cinematic desire or the meaning of youth style. Today that last word (which is always the latest word too) is more likely to go to cultural studies, literary theory or postmodernism--all of which are in several senses 'beyond' semiotics even while remaining indebted to it. In addition, we can't so easily presume to separate notions of production and desire, say, or news and cinema, precisely because we can no longer say for sure where the differences lie between notions of text, culture and technology. Beyond Semiotics provides an approach to these three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show what semiotics had always had to marginalize, forget, or not see in the quest to professionalize itself. Meanwhile, outside the limitation of any discipline, the secular mysteries of text, culture and technology today continue to call for a response--not with the aim of laying bare the truth, but of opening up the sign.

Technology, Organizations and Innovation: Towards 'real virtuality'?

Author : Ian McLoughlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415203982
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Technology, Organizations and Innovation: Towards 'real virtuality'? written by Ian McLoughlin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative collection of leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations. The set spans a 50-year time period taking the reader from the first and most influential papers from the early 1950s through to some recent publications which address contemporary and emerging debates in the field at the dawn of the 21st century. Each of the 4 volumes has a particular focus upon this area of research and scholarship: the early debates; theories, paradigms and concepts; critical empirical studies; and emerging themes and future debates. The editors provide an introduction to, and overview of, the themes, debates, perspectives, theories and paradigms which characterize this area of organization studies, and set out a "route map" to help guide the reader through the four volumes.

Here Lies Linc

Author : Delia Ray
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0375865381
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Here Lies Linc written by Delia Ray and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 12-year-old Linc Crenshaw decides he wants to go to public school, his professor mom isn't so happy with the idea. He's convinced it will be the ticket to a new social life. Instead, it's a disaster when his mom shows up at their field trip to the local cemetery to lecture them on gravestones, and Linc sees her through his fellow-students' eyes. He's convinced his chances at a social life are over until a cemetery-related project makes him sought-after by fellow students he's not so sure he wants as friends, helps him make a new, genuine friend, and brings to light some information about his family that upends his world. Delia Ray has written a funny, heartfelt story about a lonely kid and his mother as they ultimately cope with the grief left behind from his dad's death, and along the journey find new ways to connect with each other, and their community.

Communication Yearbook 11

Author : James A. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135148449
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Communication Yearbook 11 written by James A. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Communication Yearbook 11 major contributions from leading scholars in a variety of communication fields are presented and then critiqued by other authorities (often representing complementary or competing schools of thought). Topics addressed and commented on include the mass media audience, the theory of mediation, effective policy for health care communication and feminist criticism of television.

Metaphors of Identity

Author : Thomas K. Fitzgerald
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791415955
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors of Identity written by Thomas K. Fitzgerald and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. He opens up an exciting multidisciplinary dialogue for improving interpersonal and cross-cultural communication. The book provides a clear synthesis of the interrelated meanings of culture, identity, and communication, examining self-concept and its role in the communication process, and exploring cultural and biological research on self, individuality, personality, and mind-body questions.

Magic in the Air

Author : James E. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351507907
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Magic in the Air written by James E. Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new mobile telecommunications affect daily life both in the United States and around the world. Magic in the Air is the most wide-ranging analysis of mobile communication to date. Katz investigates the spectrum of social aspects of the cell phone's impact on society and the way social forces affect the use, display, and re-configuration of the cell phone. Surveying the mobile phone's current and emerging role in daily life, Katz finds that it provides many benefits for the user, and that some of these benefits are subtle and even counter-intuitive. He also identifies ways the mobile phone has not been entirely positive. After reviewing these he outlines some steps to ameliorate the mobile phone's negative effects. Katz also discusses use and abuse of mobile phones in educational settings, where he finds that their use is eroding students' participation in class even as it is helping them to cheat on exams and cut class. Parents no longer object to their children having mobile phones in class in a post-Columbine and 9/11 era; instead they are pressing schools to change their rules to allow students to have their phones available during class. And mobile phone misbehavior is by no means limited to students: Katz finds that teachers are increasingly taking calls in the middle of class, even interrupting their own lectures to answer what they claim are important calls. In keeping with the book's title, Katz explores the often overlooked psychic and religious uses of the mobile phone, an area that has only recently begun to command scholarly interest. Magic in the Air will be essential reading for communications specialists, sociologists, and social psychologists.

The Network Society

Author : Jan van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446289990
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Network Society written by Jan van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication. Fully revised, this Third Edition covers crucial new issues and updates, including: • the long history of social media and Web 2.0: why it′s not as new as we think • digital youth culture as a foreshadow of future new media use • the struggle for control of the internet among Microsoft, Google, Apple and Facebook • the contribution of media networks to the current financial crisis • complete update of the literature on the facts, theories, trends and technologies of the internet • new features for students with boxes of chapter questions, conclusions and boxed explanations of key concepts This book remains an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society.

Augmented Urban Spaces

Author : Fiorella De Cindio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317177363
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Augmented Urban Spaces written by Fiorella De Cindio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces. Considering ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile, wireless connectivity and the acceptance of the Internet as a non-extraordinary part of our everyday lives mean that physical urban space is augmented, and digital in itself. This poses new problems as well as opportunities to those who have to deal with it. This book explores the intersection and articulation of physical and digital environments and the ways they can extend and reshape a spirit of place. It considers this from three main perspectives: the implications for the public sphere and urban public or semi-public spaces; the implications for community regeneration and empowerment; and the dilemmas and challenges which the augmentation of space implies for urbanists. Grounded with international real -life case studies, this is an up-to-date, interdisciplinary and holistic overview of the relationships between cities, communities and high technologies.