scholarly journals Visualizing the App Album with Björk’s Biophilia

2013 ◽  
pp. 681-704
Author(s):  
Nicola Dibben
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Music ◽  
Music Consumption ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multisensory Experience

This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. Digitalization has brought profound changes to the way people make and experience music. This essay examines the implications of the mobile app format for audiovisual aesthetics through a case study of Björk’s Biophilia (2011). A number of consequences and opportunities of this new format are identified: new aesthetic and pedagogical implications of music visualization, immersive versus “distributed” modes of listening, interactivity and multisensory experience of music, and the creation of a curated artistic vision that counters the fragmentation and lack of multimedia experience associated with prevalent practices of music consumption via MP3 download. The essay ends by considering the relationship to interactive video, computer games, and the physical music artefact, arguing that mobile music apps are (re)introducing interactivity and multimodality into the experience of recorded music.

scholarly journals Dimitris Dragatakis (1914-2001): Advancing his legacy and Concerto for Viola using twenty-first-century digital tools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elyse Dalabakis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Edition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Piano Performance ◽  
Digital Database ◽  
Twenty First Century

<p>This project focuses on Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), his legacy, and Concerto for Viola in the twenty-first century. The research examines the following overarching questions within interlaced scholarly and creative components of the dissertation:   How can we use twenty-first-century digital tools to promote Dimitris Dragatakis, one of Greece’s most important modern composers, to advance his legacy including, importantly, his Concerto for Viola, and to assist future scholars and performers in accessing information about his life and music?  This dissertation discusses the digital tools and processes used to advance the legacy of Dimitris Dragatakis and to promote his Concerto for Viola. These tools and processes include creating and publishing the Dragatakis Archive Digital Database website, recording interviews with the Dragatakis family and leading Dragatakis scholar, and using his Concerto for Viola (1992) as a digital case study. The digital case study demonstrates how twenty-first-century performers, scholars, and archivists might approach advancing the works of lesser-known composers through digital media. In this case study, a new viola and piano performance edition and percussion chamber music performance edition are offered, a new digital orchestra score along with complete orchestral parts is made available, interview material with the violist who premiered the work has been recorded, and the recently unearthed premiere performance recording of the work from the Dragatakis archive has been included in an interactive video created by the researcher. This project also aims to provide a model for future performers and scholars to use to assist future projects beyond this topic.</p>

scholarly journals One mobile app – seven art museums. A case study of Kunstporten

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Joanna Iranowska
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Museum Educators

As digital media change our society, museums are trying to rethink their mission and benefit from the possibilities digital tools afford. First, this article provides a historical background for the development of mobile apps as digital interpretive media in Norwegian museums between 2005 and 2020. Second, it analyses a specific case – the app Kunstporten – one of the most interesting apps to have emerged in the Norwegian cultural sector in recent years. The app was developed between 2012–2013 by seven Norwegian art museums, and the first museum app in Norway targeted explicitly at children. This small case study is based on interviews with museum educators and digital walkthroughs exploring the affordances (Gibson 1978) of Kunsporten. The article seeks to answer two questions: what have education departments learned from introducing this digital interpretive media? And why is the app more successful in some museums than others?

Remembering Changi: Public Memory and the Popular Media

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-146
Author(s):  
Paula Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Plays ◽  
The Relationship

Media arenas are increasingly the place where most of our negotiation over the meaning of the past is carried out. Indeed, many commentators argue that television plays a particularly central role in the shaping of social memory. This paper seeks to examine how the various forms of media are changing the relationship between personal (and often silent) memories and public ones by asking what happens when personal memories of experience, which are not passed on within families — or only in a limited way — finally become public. I argue here that television and the internet, as increasingly interdependent cultural forms, have an important role in mediating between the personal experience and the public memory of events, as well as between genders and generations. As a case study, I examine the audience response to the television series Changi, aired on the ABC in 2001, using comments posted on the Changi guestbook internet forum. From this example, I examine how technologies of popular culture — especially new digital media — interact to create new ‘publics’, thus both increasing democratisation and access for individuals and also encompassing much larger collectives than in former times.

scholarly journals Cultural memory and the heritagisation of a music consumption community

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daragh O’Reilly ◽  
Kathy Doherty ◽  
Elizabeth Carnegie ◽  
Gretchen Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Music Consumption ◽  
Interpretive Inquiry ◽  
Consumption Community ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how music consumption communities remember their past. Specifically, the paper reports on the role of heritage in constructing the cultural memory of a consumption community and on the implications for its identity and membership. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon insights from theories of cultural memory, heritage, and collective consumption, this interpretive inquiry makes use of interview, documentary, and artefactual analysis, as well as visual and observational data, to analyse an exhibition of the community’s popular music heritage entitled One Family – One Tribe: The Art & Artefacts of New Model Army. Findings The analysis shows how the community creates a sense of its own past and reflects this in memories, imagination, and the creative work of the band. Research limitations/implications This is a single case study, but one whose exploratory character provides fruitful insights into the relationship between cultural memory, imagination, heritage, and consumption communities. Practical implications The paper shows how consumption communities can do the work of social remembering and re-imagining of their own past, thus strengthening their identity through time. Social implications The study shows clearly how a consumption community can engage, through memory and imagination, with its own past, and indeed the past in general, and can draw upon material and other resources to heritagise its own particular sense of community and help to strengthen its identity and membership. Originality/value The paper offers a theoretical framework for the process by which music consumption communities construct their own past, and shows how theories of cultural memory and heritage can help to understand this important process. It also illustrates the importance of imagination, as well as memory, in this process.

scholarly journals Analysis and Classification of Mobile Apps Using Topic Modeling: A Case Study on Google Play Arabic Apps

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ahlam Fuad ◽  
Maha Al-Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
App Store ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Google Play

Mobile app stores provide an extremely rich source of information on app descriptions, characteristics, and usage, and analyzing these data provides insights and a deeper understanding of the nature of apps. However, manual analysis of this vast amount of information on mobile apps is not a simple and straightforward task; it is costly in terms of human effort and time. Computational methods such as topic modeling can provide an efficient and satisfactory approach to mobile app information analysis. Topic modeling is a type of statistical modeling technique for discovering abstract topics that occur in a set of documents. This study explores the relationship between features of Arabic apps and investigates how well the current predefined Google Play app categories represent the type and genre of Arabic mobile apps. Based on the textual app description analysis, we aim to design and develop a sustainable classification system using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method of topic modeling in order to cover the Arabic apps classification in Google Play app store. Our study supports the hypothesis that the textual app descriptions are effective in suggesting new categories for Arabic mobile apps in Google Play app store. Also, the results indicated that the current classification on Google Play app store is not suitable for our case study “Arabic apps,” as well as it is not sustainable, as it can not cover the new app types including Arabic apps. This study offers an important contribution to Arabic app analysis and design, to improve app search and exploration in several domains such as business, marketing, and technical development. Furthermore, it provides insights for the future of Arabic app research and provides guidance for the development of an Arabic app dashboard that will support users on how to select an app based on their specific needs.

scholarly journals Media crisis and disinformation: the participation of digital newspapers in the dissemination of a denialist hoax

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Cano-Orón ◽  
Dafne Calvo ◽  
Germán Llorca-Abad ◽  
Rosanna Mestre-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Digital Newspapers

Disinformation is a communicative phenomenon that frequently feeds on political or electoral topics, as well as other aspects of our reality. This research takes as a case study the coverage given by the Spanish digital media to a hoax broadcast during the Filomena storm in 2021 that insisted that the snow was plastic. The purpose of this work is to analyze the instrumentalization of fake information as an expression of the information media crisis in the current context of disinformation. We set out four specific objectives: (SO1) to study the spread of the hoax through the media, (SO2) to analyze the construction of headlines in the news pieces, (SO3) to investigate the treatment of the hoax in the content of the pieces, and (SO4) to analyze the sources used in the pieces. To reflect on this phenomenon, we propose a three-dimensional model (structural, economic, and pragmatic) aimed at clarifying the relationship between the logic of the spread of hoaxes on the Internet and the role played by traditional media in their diffusion. The methodology used combines workflow techniques of digital methods with quantitative and content analyses. The results reveal the appropriation of certain communication strategies by digital newspapers aimed at obtaining visits. We conclude that the Spanish media, by adapting to the dynamics of disinformation irresponsibly encouraged by the attention economy, subscribe to and reinforce the crisis of credibility faced by the media ecosystem.

scholarly journals Dimitris Dragatakis (1914-2001): Advancing his legacy and Concerto for Viola using twenty-first-century digital tools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elyse Dalabakis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Edition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Piano Performance ◽  
Digital Database ◽  
Twenty First Century

<p>This project focuses on Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), his legacy, and Concerto for Viola in the twenty-first century. The research examines the following overarching questions within interlaced scholarly and creative components of the dissertation:   How can we use twenty-first-century digital tools to promote Dimitris Dragatakis, one of Greece’s most important modern composers, to advance his legacy including, importantly, his Concerto for Viola, and to assist future scholars and performers in accessing information about his life and music?  This dissertation discusses the digital tools and processes used to advance the legacy of Dimitris Dragatakis and to promote his Concerto for Viola. These tools and processes include creating and publishing the Dragatakis Archive Digital Database website, recording interviews with the Dragatakis family and leading Dragatakis scholar, and using his Concerto for Viola (1992) as a digital case study. The digital case study demonstrates how twenty-first-century performers, scholars, and archivists might approach advancing the works of lesser-known composers through digital media. In this case study, a new viola and piano performance edition and percussion chamber music performance edition are offered, a new digital orchestra score along with complete orchestral parts is made available, interview material with the violist who premiered the work has been recorded, and the recently unearthed premiere performance recording of the work from the Dragatakis archive has been included in an interactive video created by the researcher. This project also aims to provide a model for future performers and scholars to use to assist future projects beyond this topic.</p>

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