Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820478407 ISBN 13: 9780820478401

Publisher: Peter Lang, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

The Editors: Paul Messaris is the Lev Kuleshov Professor of Visual Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He has directed three feature films and is the author of Visual Literacy: Image, Mind, and Reality and Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising.
Lee Humphreys is a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where she also received her M.A. in communication. Her research examines the social uses and effects of communication technology.

From the Back Cover

"Chapters with impressive breadth, and authors of impressive credentials, covering digital media topic from images to music to games. Digital Media is convincing evidence that computing no longer merely defines 'new media,' but defines a unification of media, highlighting issues of simulation, interactivity, and connection across media topics from the neuroscience of information processing to the production of culture." - Dr. Byron Reeves, Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University

"At a time when all things digital tend to be associated with the internet, this volume serves as a broad-ranging and well-composed reminder that digital media forms exist offline as well as online, and that their current forms of expression come with a long cultural prehistory." - Dr. Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Professor of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820478407
• ISBN 13: 9780820478401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 337
• Editor: Messaris Paul, Humphreys Lee