Digital Media Metaphors

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Bringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, this edited volume provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and limitations. Digital technologies have reshaped our way of life. To grasp their dynamics and implications, people often rely on metaphors to provide a shared frame of reference. Scholars, journalists, tech companies, and policymakers alike speak of digital clouds, bubbles, frontiers, platforms, trolls, and rabbit holes. Some of these metaphors distort the workings of the digital realm and neglect key consequences. This collection, structured in three parts, explores metaphors across digital infrastructures, content, and users. Within these parts, each chapter examines a specific metaphor that has become near-ubiquitous in public debate. Doing so, the book engages not only with the technological, but also the social, political, and environmental implications of digital technologies and relations. This unique collection will interest students and scholars of digital media and the broader fields of media and communication studies, sociology, and science and technology studies.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Johan Farkas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2024-11-11
File : 154 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781040155820


Metaphor In Socio Political Contexts

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Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empirically from Critical Socio-Cognitive perspectives (CSCDA). The case studies focus on the role of metaphor as a powerful strategy for the creation of specific world views and ideological frames, as well as for their contestation in current crises.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Manuela Romano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2024-05-06
File : 378 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783111001531


Computers In Music Education

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Computers in Music Education addresses the question of how computer technologies might best assist music education. For current and preservice music teachers and designed as a development tool, reference resource, and basic teaching text, it addresses pedagogical issues and the use of computers to aid production and presentation of students’ musical works. Written by a music educator and digital media specialist, it cuts through the jargon to present a concise, easy-to-digest overview of the field, covering: notation software MIDI sound creation downloading music posting personal MP3s for mass distribution. While there are many more technical books, few offer a comprehensive, understandable overview of the field. Computers in Music Education is an important text for the growing number of courses in this area.

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Genre : Music
Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-09-10
File : 342 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135865986


The Politics Of Climate Change Metaphors In The U S Discourse

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This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA. The author enriches his linguistic analysis with cognitive aspects such as source-target domain mapping and metaphor opposition to explain how metaphor works in terms of framing this issue, drawing on a Critical Discourse Analysis-informed framework to demonstrate how politicians represent the climate crisis in their attempts to trigger social change. Using a data set of speeches given by US-based politicians, governors and mayors speaking in the context of the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, the book categorizes metaphors on different conceptions such as war, construction, unfairness, journey, and cleanliness to bridge the gap between ecolinguistics and critical metaphor analysis. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including applied linguistics, political communication, ecolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics and psychology.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Othman Khalid Al-Shboul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2023-02-28
File : 280 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783031190162


The Digital Evangelicals

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When it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value. In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradigms from the Protestant Reformation through the rise of the digital and argues that the tension is culminating in a crisis of evangelical authority. What counts as authentic interaction? Who has authority over the circulation of information? While many studies claim that technology influences religion, The Digital Evangelicals reveals how Protestant metaphors and discourses shaped the emergence of the internet and explores what this relationship with global new media means for evangelicalism.

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Genre : Computers
Author : Travis Warren Cooper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release : 2022-08-02
File : 378 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780253062277


Older People In A Digitalized Society

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With many older people lacking adequate digital competences to support their full participation in today’s digitalized society, Older People in a Digitalized Society asks how is the marginalisation of older people in digital society socially constructed? How can we promote older people’s digital inclusion and agency?

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Release : 2022-10-14
File : 169 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781803821672


Ancient Rhetorics And Digital Networks

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An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: ancient rhetoric and digitally networked communication

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Michele Kennerly
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Release : 2018-02-13
File : 329 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780817359041


 Re Imagining New Media

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The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The focus is on the works of the media artist group Van Gogh-TV, especially the historically very important interactive television project "Piazza virtuale" (1992).

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Christoph Ernst
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2021-05-31
File : 173 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783658328993


Metaphors And Norms

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Author : Stefan Larsson
Publisher : Stefan Larsson
Release : 2011
File : 265 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789172673359


Handbook Of Digital Politics

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This thoroughly revised second edition Handbook examines the latest knowledge and perspectives on digital politics. Leading scholars explore the expansion of digital technologies, channels and styles as it shapes political dynamics.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Stephen Coleman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2023-11-03
File : 511 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781800377585