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Author : Timothy Druckrey
Release : 1996
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Electronic Culture by : Timothy Druckrey
Download or read book Electronic Culture written by Timothy Druckrey. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging critical anthology examining the impact of technology on our perceptions of the world & ourselves.
Author : Shane Hipps
Release : 2005
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 747/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture by : Shane Hipps
Download or read book The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture written by Shane Hipps. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shane Hipps reveals the subtle secrets of electronic culture and the hidden ways it is shaping the church. Looking beyond the details of what's happening in communities of faith, Hipps analyzes the broader impact of technology and media on the church."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Limor Shifman
Release : 2013-10-04
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memes in Digital Culture by : Limor Shifman
Download or read book Memes in Digital Culture written by Limor Shifman. This book was released on 2013-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video—“Mitt Romney Style,” “NASA Johnson Style,” “Egyptian Style,” and many others. “Gangnam Style” (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most famous examples of an Internet meme: a piece of digital content that spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes a shared cultural experience. In this book, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes—including “Leave Britney Alone,” the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's “We Are the 99 Percent.” She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users. She differentiates memes from virals; analyzes what makes memes and virals successful; describes popular meme genres; discusses memes as new modes of political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes; and examines memes as agents of globalization. Memes, Shifman argues, encapsulate some of the most fundamental aspects of the Internet in general and of the participatory Web 2.0 culture in particular. Internet memes may be entertaining, but in this book Limor Shifman makes a compelling argument for taking them seriously.
Author : David Bollier
Release : 1995
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Future of Community and Personal Identity in the Coming Electronic Culture by : David Bollier
Download or read book The Future of Community and Personal Identity in the Coming Electronic Culture written by David Bollier. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology began as a look at the changing nature of the home. In building scenarios of the "new home," the participants expressed many significant insights into issues of personal identity, community-building, and setting boundaries in our lives and environments. This report captures many of those insights and observations. It is intended to be a catalyst for readers to understand the consequences of the trends in communications and information technologies, to think more about these issues, and to consider appropriate new actions to take as individuals, as workers, and as citizens to have better lives and communities. The report first concentrates on the impact that electronic networks might have on the future of communities, geographical and virtual. A second major theme explored is that of changes in personal identity occasioned by electronic networking in both the physical spaces of home and geographical community, on the one hand, and the virtual communities called MUDs ("Multi-User Domain") and MOOs (MUDs using Object-Oriented computer code), on the other. A third area of focus is that of the changing nature of intermediaries in democratic societies. The areas of public policy that are ripe for review are described in the last section of the report. A paper entitled, "The New Intermediaries" (Charles M. Firestone), and a list of conference participants are appended. (MAS)
Author : Deborah Lupton
Release : 2020-02-25
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 059/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Digital Food Cultures by : Deborah Lupton
Download or read book Digital Food Cultures written by Deborah Lupton. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures. Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a variety of digital media: blogs and vlogs (video blogs), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, technology developers’ promotional media, online discussion forums and self-tracking apps and devices. The book emphasises the diversity of food cultures available on the internet and other digital media, from those celebrating unrestrained indulgence in food to those advocating very specialised diets requiring intense commitment and focus. While most of the digital media and devices discussed in the book are available and used by people across the world, the authors offer valuable insights into how these global technologies are incorporated into everyday lives in very specific geographical contexts. This book offers a novel contribution to the rapidly emerging area of digital food studies and provides a framework for understanding contemporary practices related to food production and consumption internationally.
