scholarly journals Screen media interfaces and environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Jelena Brajković ◽  
Miodrag Nestorović
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
First Century ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Virtual Realities ◽  
Architectural Principles ◽  
Media Environments

The emergence and the development of new media forms took many diverse directions at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century, significantly influencing many areas of everyday life, as well as contemporary architectural practice. New types of architectural space emerged, types that are based on both new media and architectural principles. These spaces are screen, interactive, kinetic, biotechnological, as well as environments of light. These kind of environments gained new principles and features well known in new media field. Especially important for architectural context is the great potential of new media to create illusions and simulations, to produce augmented and composite, virtual realities and spaces. Virtual space represents one of the most challenging form of new media spaces. It is also the most complex form of screen media environments, so complex that it has taken its own, radical course. Besides the most advanced and complex, screen media interfaces also represent the oldest and typical forms of media architecture. This article will analyze emergence of screen interfaces in architecture, discuss their forms and modalities and examine their influence on human impression of space.

scholarly journals Principles and modes of new media architecture

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Jelena Brajkovic ◽  
Lidija Djokic
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The contemporary age is marked by the rapidly advanced digital revolution, unstoppable rise of computer technologies and omnipresence of technological advancements in all aspects of everyday life. In the information era, computer technologies have become pervasive, ubiquitous and dominant. Their hybridization with previously present media forms resulted in the emergence of a new and exuberant field of new media and technologies. New media is a hybrid field of computer based technological forms, which are used in contemporary practice, not only as tool, but also as an expressive medium. Because of the complex nature of new media, the field is extremely hybrid, positioned at the intersection of art, science and culture. Its emerged cultural paradigm is scientific culture, in which dominant characteristics are technological art and cultural forms, as well as information and techno society. In this overall context, architecture is not an isolated phenomenon. The new media have influenced the field of architecture too, offering new possibilities, features, design methodologies and principles for conceptualizing and developing architectural space. In architectural practice different modalities of the new media are being used. These modalities initiated the emergence of the field of new media architecture. The distinction of these state-of-the-art types of architectural space, together with the principles and concepts they rely on, were the main focus and main contribution of the research presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Childhood in a digital age: creative challenges for educational futures

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Craft
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
First Century ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Educational Futures

The early twenty-first century is characterised by rapid change. Commentators note how permeating digital technologies engage increasing numbers of children, young people and adults as consumers and also producers. In the shifting technological landscape, childhood and youth are changing. Connectivity around the clock, with a parallel existence in virtual space, is seamlessly integrated with actual lives. Young people are skilful collaborators, navigating digital gaming and social networking with ease, capably generating and manipulating content, experimenting virtually with versions of their 'social face'. They are implicit, inherent and immersed consumers. They are digital possibility thinkers posing 'what if?' questions and engaging in 'as if' activity. This paper seeks to theorise such possibility thinking in a digital, marketised age, using two competing discourses: young people as vulnerable and at risk; or alternatively as capable and potent. The former perspective imbues anxiety about the digital revolution; the latter embraces it as exciting and enabling. As education providers seek to re-imagine themselves, neither is sufficient. Local and global challenges urgently demand our creative potential and wisdom. Drawing from work with schools, the paper argues for co-creating with students their education futures through dialogue to nurture the 4 Ps: plurality, playfulness, participation and possibilities.

Breaking up and hooking up: A young woman’s experience of “sexual empowerment”

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni Meenagh
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Hooking Up ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Sexual Empowerment ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Hookup Culture ◽  
Media Environments

With the rise of neoliberalism, postfeminism and “hookup culture,” young women face both challenges and opportunities when constructing themselves as sexual subjects. This paper explores the experiences of a young woman who sought to have sex with someone new in order to move on from the breakup of a long-term relationship. This case study is part of a larger project which explored how young people (aged 18–25) negotiate their love/sex relationships within the context of new media environments. While this young woman described her experience of having sex with someone new as “empowering,” within a neoliberal, postfeminist context the concept of empowerment may not be a useful theoretical tool for understanding young women’s sexuality. Situating her story within its broader sociocultural context, this paper explores how structural factors shape this young woman’s ability to navigate normative discourses about sexual empowerment and construct herself as a sexual subject.

CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS OF A SPORTS COMMENTARY AS A GENRE OF SPORTS DISCOURSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (31) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Olena Hlushchenko
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Informal Conversation ◽  
Sports Commentary ◽  
And Control ◽  
Constitutive Parameters

New media technologies and social media have further added to and exacerbated the powerful cultural configuration that sport (and) media comprise. Sport should be understood as a complex site with many intersecting and interrelated levels and elements that are mutually self-constituting. Modern research in the field of sports discourse, in particular the problem of analyzing sports commentary as a genre of discourse of sport still remains unresolved. The aim of the study is to establish the constitutive characteristics of tennis commentary as a genre of sports discourse. Live tennis commentary is shown to be an internally complex form of media communication that combines elements of live spoken informal conversation. The typology of sports commentary as a genre of sports discourse is determined by the following constitutive characteristics: phatic function, which includes cognitive and axiological competence, descriptiveness and presentation of utterance, semantic sufficiency and control of semantic redundancy, understanding of the context and speech continuum; instrumentality: communicative influence (suggestion), evaluation and dialogicity: appeal to TV viewers. The communicative behavior of the tennis commentator is characterized by a number of specific functions — moderation, the presence of cognitive and axiological competence, descriptiveness and presentation, manifested in the evaluation / figures of speech.

Media Hot and Cold

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Starosielski
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Media ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
First Century ◽  
Air Conditioners ◽  
History Of ◽  
Infrared Cameras ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control

In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control. Diving into the history of thermal media, from infrared cameras to thermostats to torture sweatboxes, Starosielski explores the many meanings and messages of temperature. During the twentieth century, heat and cold were broadcast through mass thermal media. Today, digital thermal media such as bodily air conditioners offer personalized forms of thermal communication and comfort. Although these new media promise to help mitigate the uneven effects of climate change, Starosielski shows how they can operate as a form of biopower by determining who has the ability to control their own thermal environment. In this way, thermal media can enact thermal violence in ways that reinforce racialized, colonial, gendered, and sexualized hierarchies. By outlining how the control of temperature reveals power relations, Starosielski offers a framework to better understand the dramatic transformations of hot and cold media in the twenty-first century.

Expectation Horizon in Narrative Advertising

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Yasemin Bozkurt
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Media Environments

Storytelling format is one of the approaches that advertising has been using and will continue to use for many years because the stories are always able to attract people to themselves. However, it must fulfill some conditions for this. Audience/reader/listener/consumer in advertising corresponds to the reader in the Narrative. The story reaches its purpose when it is based on the characteristics and expectations of these consumers. As a result of changing consumer profile, narrative advertising is now making its target group talks to reach its targets. In this context, this study focuses on the concept of expectation horizon by Jauss, how the target group shapes and makes sense in narrative advertising, especially in new media environments, because now the end of the story is written by consumers.

Theorizing Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-172
Author(s):  
Kamilla Elliott
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Studies ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Theoretical Pluralism ◽  
Literature And Film

Chapter 4 traces the expansion of adaptation studies to new media and new theories in the twenty-first century. By 2006, literary film adaptation studies outnumbered general literature-and-film studies, and Linda Hutcheon authoritatively opened adaptation studies beyond literature and film and beyond dyadic disciplines and theoretical camps into a pluralism of media, disciplines, and theories, although debates between pre–theoretical turn and post–theoretical turn theories have continued. They continue because new theories have not resolved the problems of old theories for adaptation, so that scholars return to older theories to try to redress them. New theories have done a great deal for adaptation, but they have also introduced new theoretical problems: so much so, that the latest debates in adaptation study no longer lie between theoretical progressivism and theoretical return but between theoretical pluralism and theoretical abandonment. Beyond specific theories and differing modes of pluralism, this debate points to theorization’s failure to theorize adaptation more generally.

E-Democracy as a Contemporary Framework for Citizens' Deliberation

2005 ◽  
pp. 250-255
Author(s):  
Ulrike Kozeluh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Media ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Free Flow Of Information ◽  
Flow Of Information

The emergence of new media has raised the hope of many politicians, citizens, political activists and scholars from various disciplines to establish a (virtual) space for free flow of information and communication for increasing the quality of democratic decision making.1

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