Sonic Times in Watchmen and Inception

2013 ◽  
pp. 416-436
Author(s):  
Aylish Wood
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Multiple Level ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
Christopher Nolan ◽  
Made In

This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. In Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) and Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010), characters navigate the unusual spatiotemporal realities of fourth dimensional time and multiple-level dreams. The sound designs of each film shift between seamless and overt organizations, inviting audiences to also experience unstable spatio-temporalities. As the sound and image relations mediate between both coherent action and also potentially destabilized spatiotemporal realities, they work to hold contradictory tendencies in balance. The argument made in this essay is that sound bridges contribute to the transmission of knowledge about the unusual spatiotemporal realities of Inception and Watchmen. Even as the soundtrack is seamless in the sense that its transitions are smoothly achieved, bridging more than one location, the balance of the mix among music, sound effects, and dialogue sits unusually with the images. Consequently, the sound-image relations coordinate and generate a perspective on time and space.

The Technique of the Boyne Carvings

1956 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 156-159
Author(s):  
O. G. S. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
The Many ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Vast Range ◽  
Made In

The prudent contributor to a Festschrift will select some subject about which he thinks he knows as much as the professor who is to receive it. That is peculiarly difficult here because of the vast range of Professor Childe's knowledge, both in time and space, far exceeding the present contributor's. This Note is offered as a grateful tribute from one of the many who have been intellectually enriched by his writings and encouraged by his devotion to scholarship. It is little more than an amplification and criticism of the Abbé Breuil's classic Presidential Address to the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, delivered in 1934; but on the strength of observations made in August and September, 1955, I have come to different conclusions.The Abbé Breuil detected five successive techniques, all of them found on the stones of the Boyne Tombs:(1) Incised thin lines (pl. XIX, B).(2) Picked grooves left rough (pl. XVIII).(3, a) Picked grooves afterwards rubbed smooth; in this and the preceding group ‘it is invariably the line (groove) itself on which the pattern depends, which gives and is the design’.(3, b) Picked areas which ‘only define the limits of the pattern, the surface, left in relief by the cutting down of the background, constituting the actual design’ (pl. xx, B).(4) Rectilinear patterns where also the pattern is residual, consisting of raised ribs, forming triangles or lozenges, left standing by picking away the surrounding surface (pl. xx, A).

scholarly journals Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511982985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dag Wollebæk ◽  
Rune Karlsen ◽  
Kari Steen-Johnsen ◽  
Bernard Enjolras
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Echo Chamber ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
Emotional Basis ◽  
Made In

Emotions, such as anger and fear, have been shown to influence people’s political behavior. However, few studies link emotions specifically to how people debate political issues and seek political information online. In this article, we examine how anger and fear are related to politics-oriented digital behavior, attempting to bridge the gap between the thus far disconnected literature on political psychology and the digital media. Based on survey data, we show that anger and fear are connected to distinct behaviors online. Angry people are more likely to engage in debates with people having both similar and opposing views. They also seek out information confirming their views more frequently. Anxious individuals, by contrast, tend to seek out information contradicting their opinions. These findings reiterate predictions made in the extant literature concerning the role of emotions in politics. Thus, we argue that anger reinforces echo chamber dynamics and trench warfare dynamics in the digital public sphere, while fear counteracts these dynamics.

scholarly journals From Traditional to New Media - Pmi (Public Media Institution Radio Television of Vojvodina) Rtv of Vojvodina in Step with the 21st Century and Media Literacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
MsC Sonja Kokotović ◽  
PhD Miodrag Koprivica
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Regular Education ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Made In

Today, digital media technologies enable faster reaching the necessary information and placement information that are important to the user, quickly and easily using new communication channels available to everyone around the world. Internet mainly compared with the "information buffet" from which users take as much information as he is when he needs to. This information can be used for information, education, entertainment, advertising, sales, and other aspects of the business. As we live in the age of new media, which enabled the creation and exchange a wide variety of content, including the content of traditional media such as those produced by JMU broadcasting a large number of Internet users, researchers influence of the media warn of increase dependence on the media, especially new and the need to create the institutional basis for the introduction of media education in the regular education program. Gradual influence of new media people indirectly determine the meaning of life, because it is believed that two-thirds of our waking time with the media or with media and other activity. This work will define terms such as Internet, communications, new media, media literacy, social media, media content, but ... I will analyze the expectations and challenges that we accelerated technical and technological developments made in terms of the Internet and other forms of electronic promotions.

The Absent Image in Electronic Music

2013 ◽  
pp. 621-641
Author(s):  
Eric Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Recording Technology ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. This essay discusses the separation between image and sound inaugurated with the introduction of sound recording technology in the late nineteenth century. Two areas are explored in depth: the development of sound-based art maximally divorced from the image and postrecording technology art forms that recombine sound and image in new ways. The latter part of the essay focuses on artistic sound/image relationships inherent in digital media.

“The screen shows movement – movement is interesting!” exploring effects of multimedia stories on preschool children’s story comprehension and enjoyment

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-182
Author(s):  
Hui-Yun Sung ◽  
Ssu-Han Chen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Haptic Perception ◽  
Reading Engagement ◽  
Story Comprehension ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Adult Support

Purpose Using multimedia and print storybooks, the purpose of this paper is to compare preschool children’s reading engagement with and without adult support. Design/methodology/approach A within-subject design is used to explore the effects of multimedia stories in supporting preschool children’s story comprehension and reading enjoyment. A total of 24 children aged five to six years old from a local preschool in Taiwan participated in the experiments. Findings A statistical analysis revealed the (non)differences in story comprehension between multimedia and print storybooks, with and without adult support. A content analysis revealed several important themes affecting children’s reading enjoyment. These included multimedia elements (particularly motion and sound effects), haptic perception and the pause function. Research limitations/implications Native Chinese speaking children participated in one-to-one sessions in Taiwan. To ascertain the generalizability of the findings presented in this study, further research is encouraged in other cultural contexts and settings. Practical implications The paper provides insights into how multimedia and interactive features affect and enhance children’s enjoyment. Recommendations are made to assist library professionals to incorporate digital media into children’s programs. Originality/value Children’s reading motivation and engagement are often linked with improved reading attainments. This study elicited a range of perspectives and themes relating to what the children themselves felt influenced their enjoyment when reading print or multimedia storybooks. Findings were analyzed in a theoretical framework of facets of engagement.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF ARTS AND CULTURE TO DIGITAL MEDIA TOURISM SECTOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Adlhan Nury M. Adnan S. A
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Human Resource Education ◽  
Made In

The purpose of making this abstract is: To analyze the extent to which art and culture have been applied to the digital media tourism sector. To analyze the strategies and factors that support and inhibit the tourism sector. To describe the efforts that have been made in overcoming the obstacles to the management strategy of digital tourism media. Collection data through observations. Studies that have been carried out using a SWOT analysis show that implementing art and culture in digital media management in the tourism sector in Sumedang district is reasonable and, according to the provisions, not optimal. This is influenced by the presence of several supporting factors (geographic location, regional potential, and societal friendliness) and inhibiting factors (lack of human resource education, lack of supporting facilities and infrastructure, lack of promotion and information, cooperation with private parties, and overlapping. management status).

scholarly journals Perniagaan Online Syariah: Suatu Kajian dalam Perspektif Hukum Perikatan Islam

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Suhartono - Suhartono
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Transaction Model ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
New Variant ◽  
Business Relation ◽  
Made In

Along the vast development in information technology, it creates a new variant in business relation, that once was primarily physical with papers as the transaction mechanism tools, shifts into a more virtual relationship pattern using digital media or well known as electronic commerce (ecommerce). There has been a transformation in the jurisdictional review towards agreement forms, from the conventional trading using textual document with “tinta basah” and physical contact in a real space, into a digital model where all the documents are made in a cyber space.This transaction model provides several benefits within its operational, nevertheless its presence also emerges new complex legal problems regarding the legality of a contract or an agreement, especially in the Islamic law perspective. Does an Islamic bonding law also accommodate this ecommerce transaction model?

scholarly journals Thule as Frontier

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hastrup
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
Frontier Zone ◽  
Made In ◽  
Colonial Encounters

Located in Northwest Greenland, the Thule region is a remarkable frontier zone. This article focusses on the undecided nature of the frontier in both time and space. The article explores the unstable ground upon which ‘resources’ emerge as such. The case is made in three analytical parts: The first discusses the notion of commons and the implicit issue of spatiality. The second shows how the region’s living resources were perceived and poses a question of sustainability. The third centres on the Arctic as a ‘contact zone’; a place for colonial encounters and a meeting ground between human and nonhuman agents.

scholarly journals PETA, rhetorical fracture, and the power of digital activism

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashli Q. Stokes ◽  
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
Corporate Public Relations ◽  
Made In

Starting in 2013, SeaWorld faced a public relations disaster with the release of the documentary titled Blackfish that accused the company of mistreatment of its orcas. SeaWorld attempted to respond and rebuild its credibility, but activist group ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) doubled down on the corporation through its rhetorical shock tactics, deepening the organization’s woes. The PETA/SeaWorld controversy does more than provide another example of poor corporate public relations decision-making made in light of an activist group’s savvy use of digital technology. We argue that the case helps explain how digital technologies fundamentally change activism, whereby activists can use rhetorical fracturing, or quickly using digital media to puncture a target’s narrative, to create messages that challenge an opponent’s legitimacy to cultivate public opinion, thereby pressuring corporate policy change. Recent activism scholarship points out how digital media transforms organizational-activist relationships in profound ways, but this essay contributes to a gap in public relations scholarship by showing how strategic, message-level digital activism helps contribute to broad societal change. Indeed, given that SeaWorld’s stock was down nearly 40 percent in 2015 and ‘is about 50% below its all-time high’, its profits were down 84 percent in 2015, and attendance has fallen more than 7 percent at its parks, the case illustrates how digital activist campaigns help reshape societal understanding of a controversial issue such as using animals for entertainment.

scholarly journals Flute archetypes of sounds in Chinese Tang era poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Yang Li
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Flute Music ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Du Fu ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Wang Wei ◽  
Li Bo

Tang epoch trains (618–907) – an important source of judgments about expressive possibilities and sound archetypes of the Chinese flute, preserved in the music of the Celestial Empire composers of the XX – XXI centuries. The purpose of this investigation is to establish sound archetypes of the flute in the Chinese poetry of the Tang epoch. The methods of investigation are historical, semantic, genre and comparative approaches. The scientific novelty of the study is to introduce the concept of «flute poetry» of the Tang era into the musicology context, to establish its characteristic properties (spiritualization of the desolate time space with a magic melody, the reflection of the state of the soul of a lonely hero, the presence of the image of the listener-poet, connection with the elements of the wind, the nocturonal semantics of the natural landscape, signs of the palace style, the embodiment in the sounds of the flute - the mediator between the earthly and celestial worlds – philosophical ideas), the formation of the thesaurus of flute affects (moaning, sadness, sadness, state of waiting, experiencing loneliness). The samples of «flute poetry» by Li Bo, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Zhao Gu are considered. The image of the jade flute from Li Bo's poem symbolizes the priceless in human life. In Li Bo's poem about the Qiang Maiden, the flute music takes on the meaning of a leitmotif that accompanies the drama of love and separation. In Du Fu's work, the limits of earthly time and space contrast with the boundless celestial chronotope associated with the flute's sound image. In Wang Wei's poetry, the flute's crying accompanies the suffering of an abandoned woman and finds a response in the soul of a lonely traveler. Zhao Gu's poem includes the names of mythical flute artists Huan Tzu and Ma Rong, contributing to the sacralization of time and space in the work. Conclusions. In «flute poetry» of the Tang era, there are typical features of a common creative method inherent to the masters of the word «golden age»: the sound image of the flute is inscribed in a common artistic continuum based on the reflection of the poet's surrounding nature in a lyrical-philosophical landscape.

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