Emerging Perspectives on the Mobile Content Evolution
Title | Emerging Perspectives on the Mobile Content Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Aguado, Juan Miguel |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2015-09-21 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1466688394 |
In less than a decade, mobile technology has revolutionized our cultures, societies, and economies by impacting both personal and professional aspects of human life. Mobile technology has therefore become the fastest diffusing technology in history, expanding and transforming existent possibilities by making technology accessible and ubiquitous. Emerging Perspectives on the Mobile Content Evolution seeks a better understanding of the centrality of mobile content in the recent and coming evolution of both the ICT ecosystem and the media industry. This publication appeals to a broad audience within the interdisciplinary field of media studies, covering topic areas such as journalism, marketing and advertising, broadcasting, information management, media management, media economics, media- and technology-related public policies, media sociology, audience/consumption studies, and arts. This publication presents a multi-disciplinary discussion through a collection of academic chapters covering topics such as mobile communications and entrepreneurship, reflection on wearables and innovation, personal and mobile healthcare, mobile journalism and innovation, and behavioral targeting in the mobile ecosystem.
Comics and the City
Title | Comics and the City PDF eBook |
Author | Jörn Ahrens |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2010-03-11 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 0826440193 |
Includes international essays on possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment.
Hybrid Culture
Title | Hybrid Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Yvonne Spielmann |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2012-11-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0262304902 |
An exploration of the tensions between East and West and digital and analog in Japanese new-media art. This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005–2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art—which was known for pioneering interactive and virtual media applications in the 1990s. Spielmann discovered an essential hybridity in Japan's media culture: an internal hybridity, a mixture of digital-analog connections together with a non-Western development of modernity separate from but not immune to Western media aesthetics; and external hybridity, produced by the international, transcultural travel of aesthetic concepts. Spielmann describes the innovative technology context in Japan, in which developers, engineers, and artists collaborate, and traces the Japanese fondness for precision and functionality to the poetics of unobtrusiveness and detail. She examines work by artists including Masaki Fujihata, whose art is both formally and thematically hybrid; Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, who build special devices for a new sense of human-machine interaction; Toshio Iwai, who connects traditional media forms with computing; and Tatsuo Miyajima, who anchors his LED artwork in Buddhist philosophy. Spielmann views hybridity as a positive aesthetic value—perhaps the defining aesthetic of a global culture. Hybridity offers a conceptual approach for considering the ambivalent linkages of contradictory elements; its dynamic and fluid characteristics are neither conclusive nor categorical but are meant to stimulate fusions.
The Art of Big Hero 6
Title | The Art of Big Hero 6 PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Julius |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2015-04-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1452145253 |
Walt Disney Animation Studios' Big Hero 6 is the story of Hiro Hamada, a brilliant robotics prodigy who must foil a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. This new title in our popular The Art of series, published to coincide with the movie's U.S. release, features concept art from the film's creation—including sketches, storyboards, maquette sculpts, colorscripts, and much more—illuminated by quotes and interviews with the film's creators. Fans will love the behind-the-scenes insights into Disney's newest action comedy adventure. Copyright ©2014 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture
Title | The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Dolores P. Martinez |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1998-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521637299 |
Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology.