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  • Re-Composing YouTube

    Vernacular Musical Aesthetics in the Digital Age

    by Jonas Wolf ...
    Series series
    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, affective, and (non-)institutional aspects of networked media remix and (self-)aestheticisation. Beyond ... Read more

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • Amateurs!

    How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters

    by Joanna Walsh ...
    The story of how you created internet culture and why it mattersSince the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of communication.What started as fun soon became currency, something vital to finding friends, work, and love. Then, as ‘meatspace’ job ... Read more

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  • Internet Linguistics

    A Student Guide

    by David Crystal ...
    The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as a new field: Internet linguistics.In his engaging trademark style, Crystal addresses the online ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Computing Taste

    Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

    by Nick Seaver ...
    Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by companies like Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. But for their critics, recommender systems seem to embody all the potential ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Computer Art

    by Dominic Lopes ...
    What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and making art and that to understand computer art we need to place ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Texture

    Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload

    Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Semiotics of Emoji

    The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet

    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiovisual Translation

    Theories, Methods and Issues

    Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies.This book addresses the need for more robust theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text- types, address new methodological challenges (including the compilation, analysis and reproduction of audiovisual data), and understand new discourse communities bound together by the production and consumption of ... Read more

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  • The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media

    The first systematic, comprehensive reference covering the ideas, genres, and concepts behind digital media.The study of what is collectively labeled “New Media”—the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology—has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field, with many universities now offering it as a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Media and Communication

    by Marcel Danesi ...
    The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academics alike. Contributions from over fifty experts and practitioners provide an accessible introduction to these disciplines' most important concepts, figures, and schools of thought – from Jean ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Discourse 2.0

    Language and New Media

    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Our everyday lives are increasingly being lived through electronic media, which are changing our interactions and our communications in ways that we are only beginning to understand. In Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, editors Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester team up with top scholars in the field to shed light on the ways language is being used in, and shaped by, these new media ... Read more

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