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23 produkter
On Desire – Positions of Time–Based and Immersive Arts
Av Bernd Kracke, Marc Ries m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
391 kr
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Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence, while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships to …
Games and Rules – Game Mechanics for the "Magic Circle"
Av Beat Suter,, Mela Kocher m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish …
Games and Bereavement – How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief
Häftad, 2021
375 kr
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How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make …
Ludotopia – Spaces, Places, and Territories in Computer Games
Av Espen Aarseth, Stephan Günzel m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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Where do computer games »happen«? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of »space«, »place« and »territory« featuring in most general theories of space to lay the groundwork for the study of spatiality in games. Shifting the focus away from earlier debates on, …
Moving Images – Mediating Migration as Crisis
Av Krista Genevièv Lynes, Tyler Morgenstern m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
426 kr
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In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of movement in Europe. Indeed, the mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, …
Reading ′Black Mirror′ – Insights into Technology and the Post–Media Condition
Av German Duarte, Justin Michael Battin m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
694 kr
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Very few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at …
Images on the Move – Materiality – Networks – Formats
Av Olga Moskatova, Olga Moskatova
Häftad, 2021
815 kr
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In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and …
Mixed Reality and Games – Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Game Studies and Education
Av Emir Bektic, Daniela Bruns m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
815 kr
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Videogames allow us to immerse ourselves in worlds that are reflective of cultural phenomena. At the same time, games are in the process of occupying and utilising the real world as a part of the game. The book provides a combination of theoretical and practical approaches to mixed reality through …
Sensing and Making Sense – Photosensitivity and Light–to–Sound Translations in Media Art
Häftad, 2021
872 kr
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Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new …
Narrative Mechanics – Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life
Av Beat Suter, René Bauer m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
411 kr
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What do stories in games have in common with political narratives?This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and …
Migrating Through the Web
Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile
Häftad, 2022
924 kr
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How to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction elements? Nicole Braida digs into the discursive and material structures and infrastructures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive …
Van Gogh TV’s “Piazza Virtuale”
The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992
Inbunden, 2021
596 kr
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Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a forerunner of today's social media. The ground-breaking event that took place during the 100 days of documenta …
Food - Media - Senses
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Christina Bartz, Jens Ruchatz m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
924 kr
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Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How …
Mediatization of the O.J. Simpson Case
From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation
Häftad, 2023
980 kr
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F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: »Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.« In the 1990s, nobody fell deeper than O.J. Simpson. Once considered a national treasure, the athlete was accused of brutally slaying his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994. Within days, …
Life in Virtual Reality
Exploring lived Experiences and Social Interactions of Long-Term VRChat Users
Av Felix Krell
Häftad, 2026
1016 kr
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How do people live and interact in Cyberspace? Scientists and sci-fi writers have tackled this question for decades, yet the idea of a spatially distinct social site ›inside‹ the internet remained an imaginary for the longest time. In the 2010s, this changed: the proliferation of affordable virtual …
Radio Explorations
Architectonic Studies of Electromagnetic Milieux
Av Selena Savic
Häftad, 2024
523 kr
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Radio signals keep making material, informational, political, and social connections in this world. Exploring these signals architectonically, the contributors engage with the situatedness of radio signal recordings in nature and with knowledge implied in radio communication. Rooted in experimental …
Decolonizing Journalistic Knowledge
Deliberative Communication in Central and Eastern EU Member States
Häftad, 2024
872 kr
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In the EU, the prevailing academic and scientific thought models, as well as communication processes and journalism, are deeply Eurocentric. Martín Oller Alonso critiques these structural issues, focusing on post-communist Central and Eastern Europe's recent EU members. He argues for a …
Re-Composing YouTube
Vernacular Musical Aesthetics in the Digital Age
Av Jonas Wolf
Häftad, 2024
757 kr
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YouTube features a wide array of multimodal musical figurations, including fan-made music videos, musical aestheticisations of pre-circulating content, and musical self-performances. Jonas Wolf explores open-ended forms of musical creative relay on YouTube, delving into formal, imitative, …
Medialities
Av Ute Fendler, Patrice Mwepu m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
719 kr
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Cultural, social and economic production is always medially constituted, since it is formed through processing, storage and transmission of certain data or materials. This is why the concept of mediality can be used to stress the performative character of all culture, whose multiplicity of …
Cosmopolitan Communication Studies
Toward Deep Internationalization
Av Carola Richter, Melanie Radue m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
712 kr
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This volume proposes a “deep internationalization” of media and communication studies by offering insights and guidance on how to integrate a cosmopolitan perspective in a variety of subfields of this discipline. Building on debates on de-Westernization and cosmopolitanism, the contributors …
Turkish and German-Turkish Pop Music
Anatolian Pop and Rock, Arabesk, Belly Dance, Hip-Hop. Texts 2011 to 2025, Revised and Enlarged
Häftad, 2026
1030 kr
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Today, the neo-Anatolian pop music scene is thriving, and there is an abundance of reissues of Anatolian pop from the 1960s and 1970s. Sparked by U.S. hip-hop beat diggers in 2006, this trend has also led to a growing musicological interest in Anatolian pop and rock. This volume compiles over 15 …
Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media
Relational Practice and (De)Stabilized Reception
Av Tobias Conradi, Florian Krautkrämer m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
590 kr
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Interactive documentaries combine moving images, text, graphics, and digital interactions to create dynamic, web-based narrative formats. As a post-cinematographic expansion of the classical documentary film, they provide viewers with opportunities to select options and make decisions that …
Voice and Publics in West African Radio
"Grogneurs" as Media Activists in Bnin
Av Tilo Grätz
Häftad, 2026
992 kr
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»First caller, good morning« – this is how a famous radio show in Bénin begins. Callers can express their concerns on almost any topic of public life, if they do so precisely and politely. These programs are called grogne, and listeners can denounce grievances. Grogne programs are media dramas with …
