Reimagining Communication: Mediation

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Reimagining Communication: Mediation explores information and media technologies across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses, content variations, audiences, and professional roles. A diverse body of contributions in this unique interdisciplinary resource offers perspectives on digital games, social media, photography, and more. The volume is organized to reflect a pedagogical approach of carefully laddered and sequenced topics, which supports experiential, project-based learning in addition to a course’s traditional writing requirements. As the field of Communication Studies has been continuously growing and reaching new horizons, this volume synthesizes the complex relationship of communication to media technologies and its forms in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. This is an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Series Introduction Introduction 1. Media Archaeology and Mediation: The Magic Lantern as an Object of Theoretical Reflection 2. Intangible Photography 3. Cinema Studies 4. Video: Aesthetics/Agonism/Anti-Dialectics 5. Uneasy Intimacies: Acoustic Space and Machines of Presence 6. Ante-Narrative and the Animated Time Image 7. The Medium of Comics; or the Art of Co-Presence 8. Visualizing the News: Conceptual Foundations and Emerging Technology 9. Facilitating Communicative Environments: An Exploration of Game Modalities as Facilitators of Prosocial Change 10. Augmented Reality 11. Social Media 12. The Rise of Consumer Generated Content and Its Transformative Effect on Advertising 13. Music in Streams: Communicating Music in the Streaming Paradigm 14. Digital Copyright 15. Reimagining Copies in Digital Networks 16. Questioning Algorithms and Agency: Facial Biometrics in Algorithmic Contexts 17. Digital Privacy and Interdisciplinarity: Tendencies, Problems, and Possibilities 18. Reimagining Communication with Conversational User Interfaces: Anthropomorphic Design and Conversational User Experience 19. Brain–Computer Interface List of Contributors Index