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Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy
Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Jus…
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- 9780262301657
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Ecstatic worlds :media, utopias, ecologies
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man, "" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341141
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- 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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The more we know :NBC news, educational innovation, and learning from failure
"In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in one multimedia education…
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- 9780262305624
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 205 pages) :illustrations
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New media, 1740-1915
"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph…
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- 9780262273909
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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Schools and screens :a watchful history
"Cain chronicles twentieth-century schools' experiments with screen media and investigates the contests over citizenship and civic education that emerged in reaction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262366267
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Underground :the secret life of videocassettes in Iran
"First book length study of home video in Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and the informal distribution infrastructure that developed in reaction to the ban on all video technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366088
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Collective wisdom :co-creating media for equity and justice
"Collective Wisdom tracks co-creation in media-making, efforts that reach beyond limits of singular authorship, an ancient and under-documented practice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369869
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Mechanisms :new media and the forensic imagination
"In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understandi…
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- 9780262302746
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Out of the shadows, into the streets! : transmedia organizing and the immigra…
Foreword by Manuel Castells."For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing…
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- 9780262322805
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- 1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) :illustrations
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Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
A call for a "rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and inventions that will be equally at home with critical theory and media practice and will be prepared and able to make a difference--academically, institutionally, politically, ethically, and aesthetically" (p. 201).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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