Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication

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Paul Messaris, Lee Humphreys
Peter Lang, 2006 - Art - 337 pages
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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