scholarly journals Polyaesthetic sights and sounds: media aesthetics in The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Upgrade Soul and The Vampyre of Time and Memory

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Engberg
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Media Condition

This article explores the notion of polyaesthetics as a contemporary media condition that relates to questions of production, reception and analysis of media objects. Primarily, the paper is concerned with understanding the aesthetics of digital media works that remediate existing genres of creative practice and ultimately move towards creating new digital media forms that are conditional and provisional.The three digital works that the article analyses – The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Upgrade Soul and The Vampyre of Time and Memory – exemplify contemporary strategies and changing patterns of creation, distribution and reception evidenced in how we create, read, listen to, engage with, play and understand contemporary digital works.

Mashup as Paratextual Practice

2014 ◽  
pp. 63-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Nacher
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Environments

The main objective of this chapter is to contribute to a more dynamic understanding of the notion of paratext (Genette, 1997a). The author argues that in order to fully grasp the discourse of contemporary media objects, one has to focus on the networked, hyperconnective and fluid nature of today's media environments (Jenkins, 2008; Varnelis, 2008), where content itself often seems secondary to the modes of its circulation. In this regard, the concept of paratext still provides a valuable framework of analysis, especially when related to the widespread programming and coding procedures of contemporary Web services. In order to enable such a dynamic understanding of the notion in the contemporary digital media environment, Genette's proposition should be read not only (or primarily) as relating to the set of subtexts, “parasitic” texts, annotations and markers accompanying the “main” text, but first and foremost as a semiotic-technological apparatus enabling the circulation of digital content across different media platforms. Such a re-reading also calls for an updated understanding of digital media, with more prominence given to the relational characteristics of the objects, as well as to the fluidity and dynamics of the processes of circulation, rather than to digital “objects” as such.

Inventing the Social

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.

scholarly journals The coronavirus crisis as a world-historic event in the digital era

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-517
Author(s):  
Charalambos Tsekeris ◽  
Persefoni Zeri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
World Society ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media

The world-historic event of the COVID-19 pandemic has once more confirmed that we live in a hyperconnected world society and that, nowadays, epidemics do not count as merely natural phenomena anymore. In such context, the present paper aims to interpret the complex relationship between the society and COVID-19, with emphasis on the role played by different forces in the field of information policy and public perceptions in general. For this reason, we elaborate on cultural factors, as well as on emotions like responsibility, trust, and fear during the crisis. We also focus on the dynamics of contemporary media in relation to public images of the pandemic, drawing upon relevant findings. Overall, this casts a fresh sociological and interdisciplinary light on the current pandemic as a relational process and a digital media-driven phenomenon.

New Media and the Quality of Life

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Philip Brey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Contemporary Media

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.

Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Systems for Digital Media

2011 ◽  
pp. 807-813
Author(s):  
Jerald Hughes ◽  
Karl Reiner Lang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
The Past ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Gain Access

In 1999, exchanges of digital media objects, especially files of music, came to constitute a significant portion of Internet traffic thanks to a new set of technologies known as peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems. The networks created by software applications such as Napster and Kazaa have made it possible for millions of users to gain access to an extraordinary range of multimedia files, which, by virtue of their purely digital form, have the desirable characteristics of portability and replicability, which pose great challenges for businesses that have in the past controlled images and sound recordings.

scholarly journals #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512097836
Author(s):  
Rachel Kuo ◽  
Amy Zhang ◽  
Vivian Shaw ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
American Media ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Social Economies

This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective’s zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the language of Asian-ness. Writing from an autoethnographical perspective and using collaborative methods of qualitative discourse analysis as feminist scholars, media-makers, and interlocuters, this article looks toward the technological infrastructures, social economies, and material forms of Asian American digital media-making in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Noted: Perfect media research text for undergraduates

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-246
Author(s):  
Christopher Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
Key Questions

Digital Media and Society, by Simon Lindgren. London: Sage, 2017. 328 pages. ISBN 9781473925014 FROM the ‘flamethrower squirrel’ meme chosen for its cover to the many box-outs that define key questions, concepts and exercises for thinking, Simon Lindgren’s Digital Media and Society is a punchy, engaging text pitched perfectly for undergraduates and others seeking an accessible introduction to contemporary media research.  

scholarly journals Ilustrar para sonhar e vice-versa: notas sobre a exposição “isto me lembra uma história...” De Evandro Marenda

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kando Fukushima
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Visual Poetics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Digital Processes

O presente texto apresenta algumas reflexões a respeito da exposição “Isto me lembra uma história...” do jovem artista Evandro Marenda, realizado no Museu de Arte da UFPR (MusA - Universidade Federal do Paraná). Discute-se brevemente seu processo criativo, que envolve processos manuais e digitais, suas questões poéticas e a relação com uso das palavras. Destaca-se na obra do artista o uso de imagens que relacionam o cotidiano com as representações do fantástico, do mundo dos sonhos. Apresenta-se a análise de algumas obras que foram expostas com a finalidade de reconhecer suas qualidades pictóricas e apontar possíveis interpretações. Uma vez que normalmente seus trabalhos são expostos no meio digital, evidencia-se também seu deslocamento para o espaço museológico. Palavras-chave: Ilustração. Poética Visual. Exposição. Evandro Marenda AbstractThe paper presents some reflections on the exhibition "That reminds me of a story..." of the young artist Evandro Marenda, held at UFPR Museum of Art (MusA - Federal University of Parana). It discusses briefly his creative process, which involves manual and digital processes, his poetics and his relation with the use of words. It emphasizes some images in the artist's work which establishes relations between the everyday themes and the representations of the fantastic, the world of dreams. It presents the analysis of some works that were exhibited in order to recognize their pictorial qualities and point out some possible interpretation. It also presents the displacement of his production in the museum, since his work is usually shown in digital media. Keywords: Illustration. Visual Poetics. Exhibition. Evandro Marenda  

A Systemic Approach to Online Sharing Motivations

2012 ◽  
pp. 192-207
Author(s):  
Jörgen Skågeby
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Media Objects

The purpose of this conceptual chapter is to present and argue for a cross-disciplinary and systemic approach to the examination of motivations for sharing digital media objects via social mediating technologies. The theoretical foundation of this approach is built on two social theories from rhetorical analysis (Burke’s pentad) and gift research (gift systems), respectively. A synthesis of these two theories provides an approach capable of producing more coherent and contextually grounded insights regarding online sharing motivations. The reason these two theories were identified as useful is that they acknowledge and incorporate social and contextual factors. This is important to overcome the assumption that motivations to share are detached from the specifics of actors, situations, and sociotechnical means. As such, this cross-disciplinary combination challenges the limited, but common approach of trying to identify generic motivations for contributing to virtual communities. Instead, this chapter argues for a consideration of situated and contextual motivations for contributing by highlighting the conceptual questions what, to whom, how, where, and finally, why. In conclusion, the chapter fills a gap in the literature on online motivations mainly because current models focus on motivations as self-containing. Instead, this chapter suggests to consider sociotechnical means, types of relationships, values of media objects, identity, or culture in cohort.

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