scholarly journals Speech and its dimensions. A case of the emergence, tradition and continuity of the theory of rhetoric In the contemporary digital media landscape

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-26

Less research today is interested in the contemporary place of speech as communicated contents in the contemporary media landscape, which is drastically different from historical stages of media use with speech as a phenomenon of orality or literality. Despite its foundation in rhetoric as associated theory and practice of oral speech, the theory of rhetoric has provided us since Greek antiquity with a stable and established approach for a theoretical reflection of media and speech. This article presents the main concepts of speech that are today used in different approaches to research. It describes the historical elements of rhetoric for a typological approach to speech in five dimensions (speech as the realization of language, as an utterance, as a discourse, as a genre of traditional rhetoric, and as mediated contents). Finally, it discusses and demonstrates how these dimensions are elements of the production process of persuasive rhetoric in the theory of rhetoric that is present in the current media landscape with oral communication, speech in mechanical media, legacy media, and new media.

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Philip Brey ◽  

In this paper I evaluate the implications of contemporary information and communication media for the quality of life, including both the new media from the digital revolution and the older media that remain in use. My evaluation of contemporary media proceeds in three parts. First I discuss the benefits of contemporary media, with special emphasis given to their immediate functional benefits. I then discuss four potential threats posed by contemporary media. In a final section I examine the future of digital media and the possibilities available to us in shaping that future.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Lianlian Liu ◽  
Yongjun Wang

With the rapid development of new media, it has also promoted the transformation of animation expression. One is the change of publishing media, which makes the dissemination of online media work faster and more convenient; the other is the order of magnitude change and the diversity of publishing channels and communication. The choice has contributed to a geometric increase in the number of works published. According to the flow of the new media animation production process, design and establish the classroom situation of animation studios, introduce “work” into the classroom, integrate occupations into studies, highlight occupations in studies, and strengthen professional concepts in the courses, in the form of animation studios, combined with animation companies. The production process and assessment standards effectively organize students to actively master animation theory knowledge and production technology; these experiences can accumulate effective and valuable experience for students’ career development. This article mainly introduces the research on the innovative and entrepreneurial practice education model of animation digital media major based on intelligent information collection and intends to provide some ideas and directions for the innovation and entrepreneurship practice education model reform of animation digital media major. This article proposes a studio-based animation digital media professional innovation and entrepreneurship practice education model research methods, used for studio-based animation research and experiment on innovation and entrepreneurship practice education mode of digital media major. The experimental results of this paper show that the Cronbach’s α coefficients of the questionnaire are all greater than 0.8, indicating that the survey content of the questionnaire is more authentic and highly reliable.


2019 ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Akbar NURMATOV

Ушбу мақолада мустақиллик йилларида ОАВ ва медиа соҳасидаги тараққиёт ва унинг ҳозирги кундаги ҳолати кенг таҳлил этилади. Унда замонавий медиа назариялар, уларни тадқиқ қилиш муаммоси ўртага ташланади. Бундан ташқари замонавий инсон ҳаёти ва ижтимоий тараққиёт жараёнларида рақамли медианинг ўрни ҳам катта аҳамият касб этиши ҳақида фикр юритилади. Журналистиканинг фан сифатида узоқ вақт мустақил академик мақомга эга бўлмаганлиги, яъни илмий соҳанинг маълум қисмига, филология ва тарих фанлари таркибида бўлиб, университетларнинг фақат филология йўналишида фаолият юритиб келганлиги таъкидланади.Мақолада Ўзбекистон журналистикаси назарияси ҳам жаҳон масс медиаси билан трансформациялашув жараёнларини бошдан кечираётгани таҳлил этилади. Журналистика бўйича академик илм соҳасига янги-янги терминлар: “Прагматизм”, “Кун тартибини ўрнатиш” (Agenda-Setting), “Манфаат топмоқ ва эҳтиёжларни қондирмоқ” (Uses and Gratifications), “Ижтимоий таълим” (Social Learning), “Медиация назарияси” (Mediation Models) ва ҳоказоларнинг кириб келиши ва уларнинг ишлатилиши ҳақида мақолада фикр юритилади. Медиаиндустрия мавжуд бўлгандан бери техник инновациялар унинг тараққиётига тўртки бериб келаётганлиги, бу эса турли даврларда турлича кечганганлиги: босма дастгоҳдан тортиб, телеграф, кабел тармоқлари, телевидение, “бутун дунё ургимчак тури” ихтиросигача давом этиб келганганлиги таъкидланади. Янги медиани шакллантирган омиллар — Интернет, рақамли технологиялар ва назарий қарашларни соҳа назарияси ва амалиётида намоён бўлиши кўриб чиқилади.Янги медианинг асосий хусусияти, у тармоққа уланиши билан чексиз географик маконга эга бўлиши таҳлил этилади. Бугунги кунда янги медиа деганда рақамли, яъни интернет, гибрид рақамли, телекоммуникация, мобил телефон тармоқлари, ОАВ ташкилотининг контентини етказувчилари эканлиги айтилади.Мақолада журналистик таълимда бир эмас, бир неча хорижий тилларни чуқурлашган тарзда ўқитишни йўлга қўйиш зарурлиги, ўшанда булғуси мутахассислар жаҳон оммавий коммуникация ва янги медиа соҳасида юз бераётган ўзгаришлардан ўз вақтида бохабар бўлишлари, ёш олимларни янги медиа назарияларини тадқиқ этишга қизиқтириш ва бу борада янгиликларни олиб кирган олимларни ўз вақтида рағбатлантириб бориш каби хулоса ва тавсияларни берган. В статье представлен всесторонний обзор средств массовой информации и прогресса, достигнутого за годы независимости нашей страны. Возникают современные медиатеории,и необходимо проведение их исследования. Также считается, что роль цифровых медиа в процессе современной человеческой жизни и социального развитияогромна. Отмечается, что журналистика как наука давно не имеет самостоятельного академического статуса, то есть в определенной части научной области она выступает как часть филологии и истории, а университетская журналистика работает исключительно в области филологии.В статье анализируется теория журналистики Узбекистана и говорится о том, как глобальные медиа претерпевают трансформацию. Появились новые термины в академической журналистике: прагматизм, определение повестки дня (Agenda-Setting), поиск интереса и удовлетворение потребностей (Uses and Gratifications), социальное обучение, теория медиации (Mediation Models)и так далее. Отмечается, что технические инновации привели к развитию медиаиндустрии и она менялась в разные времена: от печатного станка до телеграфа, кабельных сетей, телевидения и изобретения «начального мира». В статье рассмотрено появление новых медиа —Интернета, цифровых технологий — и их влияние на теорию и практику отрасли.Главной особенностью новых медиа является то, что они будет иметь неограниченное географическое пространство при подключении к сети. Сегодня говорят, что новые медиа являются цифровыми провайдерами контента, а именно: Интернет, гибридная цифровая связь, телекоммуникации, сети мобильной связи и медиаорганизаций.В статье подчеркивается необходимость углубленного обучения более чем одному иностранному языку в области журналистского образования, при этом будущие профессионалы должны знать об изменениях, происходящих в мире средств массовой информации и новых медиа. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the media and the progress made since our country's independence. There are problems of modern media and their research. It is also believed that the role of digital media in the process of modern human life and social development is also huge. It is noted that journalism as a science has no independent academic status for a long time, that is, in a certain part of the scientific field it acts as a part of Philology and history, and University journalism works exclusively in the field of Philology.The article analyzes the theory of journalism in Uzbekistan and talks about how global media are undergoing transformation. There are new terms in academic journalism: Pragmatism, agenda Definition (Agenda-Setting), Search for interest and satisfaction of needs (Uses and Gratifications), Social learning, Theory of mediation (Mediation Models) and so on. It is noted that technical innovations have led to the development of the media industry and it has changed at different times: from the printing press to the Telegraph, cable networks, television and the invention of the "initial world". We will consider the emergence of new media — the Internet, digital technologies — and their impact on the theory and practice of the industry.The main feature of the new media is that they will have unlimited geographical space when connected to the network. Today it is said that new media are digital content providers, namely: Internet, hybrid digital communications, telecommunications, mobile networks and media organizations. The article emphasizes the need for in-depth training in more than one foreign language in the field of journalistic education, while future professionals should be aware of the changes taking place in the world of media and new media, encouraging young scientists to learn new theories of media.


2008 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
Andrew Burn

The aim of this chapter is to reflect about the teachers’ training in media education. This training in England is quite insufficient and almost based on the transfer of reading competencies: this means that is does not prepare the teacher to work with digital media, normally characterized by authoring activities. Starting from the experience of a master degree developed in the London Institute of Education, the chapter tries to show how many of the problems involved in this training were discussed and solved with the teachers enrolled in the master. The hypothesis presented is based on the mix between theory and practice, the creative activity of the participants, and the centrality of the role of the learner.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
David Beer

Questions of power can sometimes be sidelined in contemporary work on new media forms. David Berry’s book Critical Theory and the Digital, which tackles such questions as power and capitalism, has recently been published by Bloomsbury. The following interview uses the book as a starting point for exploring questions of power in the context of digital media. It explores the potential role of critical theory for understanding contemporary media developments. The exchange explores some of the key themes and ideas from Berry’s book whilst also focusing on how this project might develop in the future. As such, this is an interview that is concerned with questions of digital power and the possibility of re-animating critical theory.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Tim Barker

In this article, the author begins to identify a new way to understand the experiment in arts and humanities research. Focusing on the production of what Vilém Flusser calls ‘technical images’ in video art and new media projects, he suggests that the experiment in experimental art may be rethought as a method for testing concepts and observations through the application of media technology as an apparatus. The technical image is a time-critical way to understand automatic image making devices and using this method of analysis he identifies examples where artists and humanities scholars have programmed devices to experiment with the time of contemporary media culture. Beginning with an analysis of Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s two works Listening Post and Moveable Type, the author uses a number of examples, from contemporary experiments with digital media to the experiments with video in the 1970s and 1980s, to show how artists and humanities scholars have used technical images to engage in experimental research outside the controlled laboratory of scientific experiments. If experimental scientists test scientific problems by developing, programming and applying an apparatus, the experimental artists identified in this article can likewise be seen to test aesthetic and cultural problems by similarly redesigning, scaling-up and experimentally applying media technology.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mehdy Sedaghat Payam

<p>This thesis argues that the future envisaged for the novel by the early hypertext theorists, that the digital medium would displace print and open up a variety of new possibilities for novelistic fiction, can now be differently understood by exploring the materiality of the medium in works of print, hypertext and web-fiction composed in the past fifty years. Michael Kaufmann‘s analysis of modernist experimental print fiction in his book Textual Bodies: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Print and his use of the term 'metatextual' to locate the distinguishing feature of novels in this tradition will be extended to the works of hypertext and web-fiction in the new media, demonstrating that works of hypertext and web-fiction can be regarded as continuous with experimental print fiction. This analysis, which is also grounded on the concepts of the graphic surface and the materiality of the text, is further confirmed by considering the use of metatextual features of works composed in digital media in experimental novels published in the digital era which continue the tradition by publishing in print.  There are four chapters in this thesis. In the first one, metatextuality of the print novels in the pre-digital era is explored through the theory and practice of William Gass who has insisted on the materiality of language and the medium in almost all of his theoretical works. Moreover, the first chapter establishes a point of reference for the discussion of the shift from print to digital media in novel writing by discussing an experimental print novel, William Gass's Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife. Each of the following chapters identify significant issues in the development of hypertext and print for the phase investigated in the chapter, and present two or more case studies of specific texts.  The second chapter explores the development of the novel through the electronic textuality of the early computers. This chapter analyses the first hypertext novel, afternoon, written by Michael Joyce, and how and in what ways it took advantage of the capabilities of the computer and in what ways it tried to remediate print. In order to show how the print novel has been becoming more media-conscious, the second chapter ends with an analysis of a print novel, Fax Messages From a Near Future by Jorge Wilheim which highlights the role of medium in its narrative.  The third chapter follows the line of argument of the previous chapters by exploring the relationship of the multimedia capabilities of the World Wide Web and analyzing the trends which appear through the way the Internet has been used to write novels. The case study section of this chapter includes two novels; 10.01 by Lance Olsen, and Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales by Edward Falco.  The final chapter brings the whole line of inquiry back into print in order to examine what effects the arrival of digital media has had on experimental print fiction and how these novels push the boundaries of the print medium even further. There are three novels in the case study of this chapter, each of which provides a unique insight into the potentials of print and how they bring the materiality of the print to the foreground. The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock makes the book a multimodal work of art by incorporating the painting and the words. Mark Z. Danielewski‘s The Fifty Year Sword and House of Leaves make us see the book as a physical object which can be read in a variety of different ways.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mehdy Sedaghat Payam

<p>This thesis argues that the future envisaged for the novel by the early hypertext theorists, that the digital medium would displace print and open up a variety of new possibilities for novelistic fiction, can now be differently understood by exploring the materiality of the medium in works of print, hypertext and web-fiction composed in the past fifty years. Michael Kaufmann‘s analysis of modernist experimental print fiction in his book Textual Bodies: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Print and his use of the term 'metatextual' to locate the distinguishing feature of novels in this tradition will be extended to the works of hypertext and web-fiction in the new media, demonstrating that works of hypertext and web-fiction can be regarded as continuous with experimental print fiction. This analysis, which is also grounded on the concepts of the graphic surface and the materiality of the text, is further confirmed by considering the use of metatextual features of works composed in digital media in experimental novels published in the digital era which continue the tradition by publishing in print.  There are four chapters in this thesis. In the first one, metatextuality of the print novels in the pre-digital era is explored through the theory and practice of William Gass who has insisted on the materiality of language and the medium in almost all of his theoretical works. Moreover, the first chapter establishes a point of reference for the discussion of the shift from print to digital media in novel writing by discussing an experimental print novel, William Gass's Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife. Each of the following chapters identify significant issues in the development of hypertext and print for the phase investigated in the chapter, and present two or more case studies of specific texts.  The second chapter explores the development of the novel through the electronic textuality of the early computers. This chapter analyses the first hypertext novel, afternoon, written by Michael Joyce, and how and in what ways it took advantage of the capabilities of the computer and in what ways it tried to remediate print. In order to show how the print novel has been becoming more media-conscious, the second chapter ends with an analysis of a print novel, Fax Messages From a Near Future by Jorge Wilheim which highlights the role of medium in its narrative.  The third chapter follows the line of argument of the previous chapters by exploring the relationship of the multimedia capabilities of the World Wide Web and analyzing the trends which appear through the way the Internet has been used to write novels. The case study section of this chapter includes two novels; 10.01 by Lance Olsen, and Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales by Edward Falco.  The final chapter brings the whole line of inquiry back into print in order to examine what effects the arrival of digital media has had on experimental print fiction and how these novels push the boundaries of the print medium even further. There are three novels in the case study of this chapter, each of which provides a unique insight into the potentials of print and how they bring the materiality of the print to the foreground. The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock makes the book a multimodal work of art by incorporating the painting and the words. Mark Z. Danielewski‘s The Fifty Year Sword and House of Leaves make us see the book as a physical object which can be read in a variety of different ways.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (10) ◽  
pp. 1172-1176
Author(s):  
Charlotte Schramm ◽  
Yaroslava Wenner

AbstractThe digital media becomes more and more common in our everyday lives. So it is not surprising that technical progress is also leaving its mark on amblyopia therapy. New media and technologies can be used both in the actual amblyopia therapy or therapy monitoring. In particular in this review shutter glasses, therapy monitoring and analysis using microsensors and newer video programs for amblyopia therapy are presented and critically discussed. Currently, these cannot yet replace classic amblyopia therapy. They represent interesting options that will occupy us even more in the future.


Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter

Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Conrad and Welles, they embodied the hybridity of writing or the images of film; for al-Hakim and Mahfouz, the persistence of links between ancient Pharaonic civilisation and a newly independent Egypt. For Joyce, hieroglyphs symbolised the origin point for the world’s cultures and nations; for Pynchon, the connection between digital code and the novel. In their modernist interpretations and applications, hieroglyphs bring together writing and new media technologies, language and the material world, and all the nations and languages of the globe....


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