Reimagining Communication: Mediation

Reimagining Communication: Mediation By Michael Filimowicz, Veronika Tzankova 342 Pages - 14 B/W Illustrations   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. Table of Contents ContentsSeries Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova)Volume Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova)Table of Contents for Reimagining Communication: MediationChapter 1Media Archaeology and Mediation: the Magic Lantern as an Object of Theoretical ReflectionFrancisco Javier FrutosCarmen López San Segundo　Chapter 2Intangible Photography　Grant RiversChris IngrahamChapter 3Cinema StudiesSean MaherChapter 4Video: Aesthetics/Agonism/Anti-dialecticsTimothy BarkerChapter 5Uneasy Intimacies: Acoustic Space and Machines of PresenceAdam HulbertChapter 6Ante-Narrative and the Animated Time ImageHotessa LaurenceChapter 7The Medium of Comics; or the Art of Co-PresenceNeil CurtisChapter 8Visualizing the News: Conceptual Foundations and Emerging TechnologyRussell ChunChapter 9Facilitating communicative environments:An exploration of game modalities as facilitators of prosocial changeJessica Wendorf Muhamad　Karen SchrierLaura-Kate HuseChapter 10Augmented RealityAarón Rodríguez SerranoMarta Martín NúñezShaila García CatalánChapter 11Social MediaTanner MirrleesChapter 12The Rise of Consumer Generated Content and Its Transformative Effect on AdvertisingNaim ÇınarChapter 13Music in Streams: Communicating Music in the Streaming ParadigmAnja Nylund HagenChapter 14Digital CopyrightSteve Collins and Sherman YoungChapter 15Reimagining copies in digital networksMargie BorschkeChapter 16Questioning algorithms and agency: facial biometrics in algorithmic contextsMichelle WilsonChapter 17Digital Privacy & Interdisciplinarity: Tendencies, Problems, and PossibilitiesTommy CookeChapter 18Reimagining Communication with Conversational User Interfaces: Anthropomorphic Design and Conversational User ExperienceSergio SayagoJosep BlatChapter 19Brain Computer InterfaceDavid J. GunkelList of contributorsIndex Biography Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation. Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and a Communications Instructor at Columbia College – both in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human-computer interaction and communication. Sport shapes the essence of her research which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.