"The third edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest research and developments, including the rise of Big Data, AI, and the Internet of Things. Digital Media Ethics will continue to be the go-to textbook for anyone getting to grips with this important topic"--
"The Digital Media Handbook deals with the essential diversity of digital media by combining critical commentary and descriptive and historical accounts with a series of edited interview and discussions with professional media practitioners, including producers, developers, curators and artists. The Digital Media Handbook provides an understanding of the historical and theoretical development of digital media, emphasising the complex continuities in the technological developments associated with particular cultural uses of media as well as emergence of new forms of communication in networked culture. The Digital Media Handbook focuses upon key concerns of practitioners, how they develop projects and the contexts in which they work. The interviews give a rich account of contemporary preoccupations and concerns and how practitioners are thinking about and actually solving particular problems related to network communication. The Digital Media Handbook includes; - Essays on the history and theory of digital media - Essays on contemporary issues and debate - Interviews with digital media professionals - A glossary of technical acronyms and key terms"--
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note on the Cover Image -- Note -- Prologue -- Notes -- 1: Introduction -- Poetics As Creative Production -- Poetics As World Disclosure -- A Poetics of Plural Media? -- Close Reading As a Poetic Method -- The Structure of the Book -- Notes -- 2: Composite -- The Attentive Fallacy -- Inattention and Materiality -- The Indifference of Photography -- The Non-Reciprocity of Television -- The Aggregate Image and the Face of Humanity -- The Composite As Human Totem -- The Companionship of Media -- Notes -- 3: Screenshot -- From Performance to Document -- Framing the Screenshot -- A Remediated Photograph -- The Photographic Cut and the Hardness of the Screenshot -- Social Media as Witnessable Worlds -- Speak to Me, My Life -- Notes -- 4: Tag -- The Incantation of the Name -- Photographic Incarnation -- Extending the Self in the Image Stream -- The Materiality of the Image and the Palpability of the Network -- Tagged Being -- Notes -- 5: Selfie -- The Selfie as a Theoretical Object -- Indexicality: Trace and Deixis -- Composition and Com-position -- Reflection and Reflexivity -- The Selfie, the Phatic Body and Kinaesthetic Sociability -- The Serious Politics of Sociability -- Notes -- 6: Interface -- The Aesthetics of Testimony -- Trajectories of Media Witnessing -- Embodied Aesthetics and the Graphical User Interface -- Attention: From Hermeneutics to Operation -- Real-time, Interactive and Haptic Engagement -- Co-witnessing and Communicative Action -- The Ethics of Kinaesthetics -- Notes -- 7: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement
"Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities."--Provided by publisher
What does it mean to live in a digital society? Does social media empower political activism? How do we form and express our identity in a digital age? Do algorithms and search engine results have a social role? How have software and hardware transformed how we interact with each other? In the early 21st century, digital media and the social have become irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge introduction, Simon Lindgren explores what it means to live in a digital society. With succinct explanations of the key concepts, debates and theories you need to know, this is a must-have resource for students exploring digital media, social media, media and society, data and society, and the internet. "An engaging story of the meaning digital media have in societies. The writing is relatable, with diverse and comprehensive references to theories. Above all, this is a fun book on what a contemporary digital society looks like!" - Professor Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umea University in Sweden. He is also the director of DIGSUM, an interdisciplinary academic research centre studying the social dimensions of digital technology.
Death and digital media: an introduction -- Pre-digital mediums, media, and mediations -- The materialities of gravesites and websites -- Death and social media: entanglements of policy and practice -- Mixing repertoires: commemoration in digital games and online worlds -- The funeral as a site of innovation -- Looking to the future of life after death -- Death and digital media: an afterword
This volume presents state-of-the-art research from a wide area of subjects brought about by the digital convergence of computing, television, telecommunications and the World-Wide Web. It represents a unique snapshot of trends across a wide range of subjects including virtual environments; virtual reality; telepresence; human-computer interface design; interactivity; avatars; and the Internet. Both researchers and practitioners will find it an invaluable source of reference
"Media's effects on our lives has fundamentally changed in the past decade. This textbook surveys the literature of effects from exposure to traditional media and focuses attention on the special kinds of effects that have resulted from changes in the nature of those exposures as well as the access to a much wider range of messages and experiences"--
Introduction: Digital media, youth, and credibility / Miriam J. Metzger & Andrew J. Flanagin -- Digital media and youth : unparalleled opportunity and unprecedented responsibility / Andrew J. Flanagin & Miriam J. Metzger -- Toward a cognitive developmental approach to youth perceptions of credibility / Matthew S. Eastin -- College students' credibility judgments in the information seeking process / Soo Young Rieh and Brian Hilligoss -- Technology and credibility : cognitive heuristics cued by modality, agency, interactivity, and navigability / S. Shyam Sundar -- Trusting the Internet : new approaches to credibility tools / R. David Lankes -- Credibility of health information and digital media : new perspectives and implications for youth / Gunther Eysenbach -- Challenges to teaching credibility assessment in contemporary schooling / Frances Jacobson Harris -- Credibility, politics, and public policy / Fred W. Weingarten