Digital Media: Transformations in Human CommunicationPaul Messaris, Lee Humphreys In this must-have new anthology, top media scholars explore the leading edge of digital media studies to provide a broad, authoritative survey of the study of the field and a compelling preview of future developments. This book is divided into five key areas - video games, digital images, the electronic word, computers and music, and new digital media - and offers an invaluable guide for students and scholars alike. |
Contents
Influences of Digital Imaging on the Concept of Photographic Truth | 3 |
Viewers Awareness of Digital FX in Movies | 15 |
The End of Digital Special Effects | 29 |
Photographs and the Presentation of Self through Online Dating Services | 39 |
Famous News Images in the InternetDigitalSatellite Age | 51 |
Music Of My Own? The Transformation from Usage Rights to Usage | 67 |
Using Computers to Create Music | 79 |
New Forms of Consumption and Commodification | 87 |
The Past Present and Future of Immersive and Extractive Ebooks | 159 |
Good Video Games as Learning Machines | 173 |
On the Future of Video Games | 187 |
Gender and Structure in The Sims Online | 197 |
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Video Games | 211 |
A Look Behind | 225 |
The Influence of Appetitive and Aversive | 237 |
FROM VIRTUAL TO REAL | 253 |
Whats Digital in Digital Music? 1 | 95 |
electronic | 111 |
A Walk on the Dark Side | 121 |
Phenomenological Understanding of Social Responses | 127 |
Rhetoric on the Webl | 139 |
The Future of Publishing in the Digital Age | 147 |
Inhabitable Interfaces | 275 |
The Role of Social Navigation and Context in Ubiquitous Computing | 287 |
HumanRobot Interaction Recent Experiments and Future Work | 299 |
Contributors | 331 |
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