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117 books match the query 'Digital media' and 6 start with e
Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy
Edited by Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein, and Catherine E. Tucker
University of Chicago Press, 2015
Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy explores the economic impact of digitization, with each chapter identifying a promising new area of research. The Internet is one of the key drivers of growth in digital communication, and the first set of chapters discusses basic supply-and-demand factors related to access. Later chapters discuss new opportunities and challenges created by digital technology and describe some of the most pressing policy issues. As digital technologies continue to gain in momentum and importance, it has become clear that digitization has features that do not fit well into traditional economic models. This suggests a need for a better understanding of the impact of digital technology on economic activity, and Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy brings together leading scholars to explore this emerging area of research.
Electronic Media and Technoculture
Caldwell, John T
Rutgers University Press, 2000
Electronic Media and Technoculture anchors contemporary discussion of the digital future within a critical tradition about the media arts, society, and culture. The collection examines a range of phenomena, from boutique cyber-practices to the growing ubiquity of e-commerce and the internet. The essays chart a critical field in media studies, providing a historical perspective on theories of new media. The contributors place discussions of producing technologies in dialogue with consuming technologies, new media in relation to old media, and argue that digital media should not be restricted to the constraining public discourses of either the computer, broadcast, motion-picture, or internet industries. The collection charts a range of theoretical positions to assist readers interested in new media and to enable them to weather the cycles of hardware obsolescence and theoretical volatility that characterize the present rush toward digital technologies.
Contributors include Ien Ang, John Caldwell, Cynthia Cockburn, Helen Cunningham, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Arthur Kroker, Bill Nichols, Andrew Ross, Ellen Seiter, Vivian Sobchack, Allucquère Rosanne Stone, Ravi Sundaram, Michael A. Weinstein, Raymond Williams, and Brian Winston.
John Thornton Caldwell is chair of the film and television department at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a filmmaker and media artist and author of Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television (also from Rutgers University Press).
Essential Film History
The Evolution of Movie StorytellingCharles Ramírez Berg and John Bruns
University of Texas Press, 2026
A guide to the fundamentals of understanding film history, filmmaking, and film appreciation.
Film is not just a medium; it is also a language—and a global one at that. Essential Film History describes how this language emerged and how it has matured over the course of more than 125 years. Beginning with the experiments of the late nineteenth century, and tracking the development of cinematic storytelling, commercial distribution, and audience reception into the era of digital recording, Charles Ramírez Berg and John Bruns offer a comprehensive course in both the history and artistry of film.
Essential Film History breaks cinematic language into three core components: image, sound, and narrative. Between the 1890s and 1940s, this audiovisual language both consolidated and spread, becoming comprehensible worldwide. Since then, filmmakers have adapted and extended the language of cinema to suit an ever-growing range of aesthetic and narrative projects, from documentaries and full-length animation to avant-garde and made-for-TV movies. Covering major figures, studios, and events as well as key technological and sociopolitical developments, Essential Film History is an indispensable guide to the evolution of cinematic style.
Ex Ante
Power and Prediction in the Real-Time FutureJohn Cheney-Lippold
University of Chicago Press, 2027
An incisive framework for understanding how predictive AI has reshaped our relationship with time.
Ex Ante argues that AI systems draw us into a new experience of time, a continuous stream of machine-generated futures that reshapes our relationship to ourselves, to capitalism, and to infrastructure. Unlike other predictive tools that help us prepare for what might come, these projections—produced by algorithms and sourced by massive flows of data—calibrate our actions moment by moment, second by second.
In this book, John Cheney-Lippold offers a framework he calls the ex ante, Latin for “before the event,” as a way to consider how the future has become capitalism’s latest resource for exploitation. Through case studies spanning TikTok beauty filters that have fueled a surge in plastic surgery consultations, chess engines that redefine how the game is played, online sports betting platforms that commodify probability itself, hospital sepsis algorithms that transform the labor of nursing, and coordinated vehicle networks that collectively anticipate their surroundings to function, Ex Ante offers an exploration and powerful critique of our algorithmic present and the powers behind it.
Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative
Renee Hobbs
Temple University Press, 2016
Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative provides a wide-ranging look at the origins, concepts, theories, and practices of the field. This unique, exciting collection of essays by a range of distinguished scholars and practitioners offers insights into the scholars and thinkers who fertilized the minds of those who helped shape the theory and practice of digital and media literacy education.
Each chapter describes an individual whom the author considers to be a type of “grandparent.” By weaving together two sets of personal stories—that of the contributing author and that of the key ideas and life history of the historical figure under their scrutiny—major concepts of digital media and learning emerge.
Expressive Networks
Poetry and Platform CulturesEdited by Matthew Kilbane
Amherst College Press, 2025
Though contributors write from a variety of methodological positions and address themselves to a range of archives, they share the primary conviction that the impact of Web 2.0 on literary practice is far-reaching, far from self-evident, and far more variegated and unpredictable than easy summations of social media’s influence suggest. Expressive Networks asks after poetry’s present and future by examining what poems themselves express about the social make-up of networked platforms.
Edited by Matthew Kilbane with contributions from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Micah Bateman, Andrew Campana, Sumita Chakraborty, Scott Challener, C.R. Grimmer, Tess McNulty, Michael Nardone, Seth Perlow, Anna Preus, Susanna Sacks, Carly Schnitzler, Melanie Walsh, and Samuel Caleb Wee.