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Values at play in digital games
All games express and embody human values, providing a compelling arena in which we play out beliefs and ideas. "Big ideas" such as justice, equity, honesty, and cooperation -- as well as other kinds of ideas, including violence, exploitation, and greed -- may emerge in games whether designers intend them or not. In this book, Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum present Values at Play, a theoret…
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A New History of Modern Computing
"Bringing the history of modern computing fully up to date, from new applications to scientific computation to video games and the ubiquitous smartphone"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Ar…
The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts. The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive per…
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Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students. Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more a…
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Northern sparks innovation technology policy and the arts in Canada from Expo…
"Northern Sparks explores modern Canadian innovation in media arts and technology since 1967, focusing on the intersection of art, science, technology, and policy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Public access ICT across cultures : diversifying participation in the network…
Shared public access to computers and the Internet in developing countries is often hailed as an effective, low-cost way to share the benefits of digital technology. Yet research on the economic and social effects of public access to computers is lacking. This volume offers the first systematic assessment of the impact of shared public access in the developing world, with findings from ten coun…
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Worried about the wrong things youth risk and opportunity in the digital world
It's a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people's online…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 339 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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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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Peer Participation and Software: What Mozilla Has to Teach Government
An examination of Mozilla's unique approach to software development considers how this model of participation might be applied to political and civic engagement.Firefox, a free Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, is used by an estimated 270 million people worldwide. To maintain and improve the Firefox browser, Mozilla depends not only on its team of professional programmers and man…
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