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The digital plenitude :the decline of elite culture and the rise of new media
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media. Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms--websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more--and a multitude of practices that include making, remixing, sharing, and critiquing. This multiplicity is so …
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- 9780262352505
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: East Cambridge (Second Edition)
This series, called the Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, was among the first inventories of its kind in America.Shortly after the Cambridge Historical Commission was established it embarked on the task of surveying Cambridge's architectural resources. The Commission published five reports, from 1964 to 1977, on each area of the city. This series, called the Survey of Architectural …
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- Second edition.
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- 0262368005
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- 1 online resource :illustrations, maps.
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Collaborative Media: Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions
"With many new forms of digital media--including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr -- the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. Jonas L?owgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of these forms of media in terms of what t…
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- 9781461952190
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- 1 online resource (198 pages) :illustrations
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Cultural Analytics
A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods can we bring to bear on the astonishing scale of digital culture--the terabytes of photographs shared on social media every day, the hundreds of millions of songs created by twenty million musicians on …
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- 9780262037105
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations, figures, tables
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Numbered lives :life and death in quantum media
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fi…
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- 9780262350174
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Sport 2.0 :
Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.
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- 1 online resource (x, 274 pages)
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Bioethics in the age of new media / Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
Joanna Zylinska examines the ethical challenges presented by technology to the allegedly sacrosant idea of the human & makes a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of
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- 1 online resource (xv, 230 pages)
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A widening sphere: evolving cultures at MIT
How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295406
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- 1 online resource (xi, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Touch
A Bradford book."An essay on the importance of touch to children's growth and development and to the physical and mental well-being of people of all ages.The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy, well into childhood. Touch is critical for children's …
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- 9780262272599
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- 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) :illustrations.
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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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