This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of ...narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own terms. The treatise is divided into three parts. Part I presents established and newly developed concepts that are vital for formulating a nuanced theoretical model of transmedial narration. Part II investigates the specific transmedial media characteristics that are most central for realizing narratives in a plenitude of different media types. Finally, Part III contains brief studies in which the narrative potentials of painting, instrumental music, mathematical equations, and guided tours are illuminated with the aid of the theoretical framework developed throughout the book. Suitable for advanced students and scholars, this book provides tools to disentangle the narrative potential of any form of communication.
media communication; culture and society; media transformations; technical communication; media social relations and roles; social fields and institutional dynamics; identities and collectives; ...public debate; political decision-making; media logic; mediatization
This article deals with the main provisions of the communication theory of the Canadian scientist, the founder of the Toronto School of communication theory, H. A. Innis. The main motives for ...changing the scientific interests of H. Innis from economic history to the theory of social communications are shown. The research carried out H. Innis was aimed at analysis of the concept of mass communication means and its influence on social and political processes. It indicated that H. Innis defines two types of media: temporal and spatial. Each type of mass communication means is characterized by a special material of production and a way of storing and transmitting information. In terms of civilization, temporal media are focused on modernity and traditions, preservation of moral and religious values, and spatial - on future and innovations, development of technology and secular culture. In accordance with H. Innis’s communications theory, the technology of mass communication influences the competition of media among themselves and promotes the emergence of a monopoly on knowledge.
Connected Viewing Holt, Jennifer; Sanson, Kevin
2014, 2013-12-04
eBook
As patterns of media use become more integrated with mobile technologies and multiple screens, a new mode of viewer engagement has emerged in the form of connected viewing, which allows for an array ...of new relationships between audiences and media texts in the digital space. This exciting new collection brings together twelve original essays that critically engage with the socially-networked, multi-platform, and cloud-based world of today, examining the connected viewing phenomenon across television, film, video games, and social media.
The result is a wide-ranging analysis of shifting business models, policy matters, technological infrastructure, new forms of user engagement, and other key trends affecting screen media in the digital era. Connected Viewing contextualizes the dramatic transformations taking place across both media industries and national contexts, and offers students and scholars alike a diverse set of methods and perspectives for studying this critical moment in media culture.
Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linkoeping, Sweden. ...He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linkoeping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talk-in-interaction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998), The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in Focus Groups (2007, with I. Markova, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).
How do media platforms organise social life? How do media empower or disempower our identities? How do we understand the impact of algorithms? How are media audiences produced and managed? Media & ...Society introduces the role of the media in social, cultural, political and economic life, unpacking the increasing entanglement of digital media technology with our everyday lives. It explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. An age where we both create and consume content, and where we both give and gain attention - translating our social lives into huge flows of data. Associate Professor Nicholas Carah shows how a critical approach to power helps us not only to understand the role media play in shaping the social, but also how we can become critically informed media citizens ourselves, able to participate and be heard in meaningful ways. Media & Society expertly introduces all the key concepts and ideas you need to know, and then puts theory into practice by tying them to contemporary case studies. From using Ghostery to track how your personal data is being collected, to exploring misinformation on social media via Youtube, to the reality of internships and freelancing in today's digital media industry. It is essential reading for students of media, communication and cultural studies.
Whether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers.
In neuroscience, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has
defined the field for much of the modern era. But as
neuroscientists ...increasingly reevaluate their assumptions about how
brains work, we need a new metaphor to help us ask better
questions. The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an
innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the
brain is not like a single computer-it is a communication system,
like the internet. Both are networks whose power comes from their
flexibility and reliability. The brain and the internet both must
route signals throughout their systems, requiring protocols to
direct messages from just about any point to any other. But we do
not yet understand how the brain manages the dynamic flow of
information across its entire network. The internet metaphor can
help neuroscience unravel the brain's routing mechanisms by
focusing attention on shared design principles and communication
strategies that emerge from parallel challenges. Highlighting
similarities between brain connectivity and the architecture of the
internet can open new avenues of research and help unlock the
brain's deepest secrets. An Internet in Your Head presents
a clear-eyed and engaging tour of brain science as it stands today
and where the new paradigm might take it next. It offers anyone
with an interest in brains a transformative new way to
conceptualize what goes on inside our heads.
The article critically examines how faculty in journalism and mass communication perceive the Covid-19 impact on higher education in Egypt. Using an online survey (N = 135) and 14 in-depth interviews ...in spring–summer 2020, the article contextualizes the faculty’s ambivalent perceptions within the diffusion of innovation theory. The article bridges a gap in the existing literature by localizing this disrupted delivery in relation to the broader challenges and opportunities for diffusion of digital innovations in higher education. The results nuance the debate on digital education beyond a techno-determinist focus on digital skills to encompass societal awareness of regional and culture-specific digital inequalities.
