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Author: Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: arts, changing, world, media, cyberspace, celluliod
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2002-11-25
ISBN-10: 0833030760
ISBN-13: 9780833030764
The media arts are the newest and most technologically intensive of the arts. Consisting of narrative, documentary and avant garde film and video, digital art, and installation art using media, they represent a mix of the performing and visual arts. Despite their short history, they are also marked by many of the trends that characterize the arts sector as a whole. This report discusses the origins and developments of the media arts and component disciplines, their distinguishing features, and the key challenges they face in the future. The authors also compare the issues facing the media arts
Authors:Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Soph
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: media, amsterdam, university, press, matters, technology, everyday, material, tracing, new, digital, life
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-10-15
ISBN-10: 9089640681
ISBN-13: 9789089640680
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions are emerging now that new media are being taken for granted, and which riddles are still unsolved? Is contemporary digital culture indeed all about ’you’, the participating user, or do we still not really understand the digital machinery and how this constitutes u
Authors:Richard A. Epstein, Geoffrey, Sir Owen, Geoffrey
Publisher: Hoover Institution Pre
Keywords: welfare, hoover, classics, social, politics, markets, siege, cartels, free
Number of Pages: 99
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN-10: 081794611X
ISBN-13: 9780817946111
One of the greatest challenges faced by liberal democracies is how to best regulate the interface between market choice and government behavior. In Free Markets under Siege, Richard Epstein draws on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics to examine this critical issue and in the process explains how to find an effective middle way between socialism and libertarianism. With clarity, force, and wit, Epstein provides an illuminating analysis of some of the ways that special interest groups, with the help of sympathetic politicians, have been able to manipulate free market
Author: Dan Gillmor
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: media
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-08
ISBN-10: 0596007337
ISBN-13: 9780596007331
For the first time, bloggers have been awarded press credentials to cover the national political conventions. That s a harbinger of bigger changes in the media landscape, according to nationally known columnist Dan Gillmor. His new book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, tells the story of the grassroots journalists including bloggers who are dismantling Big Media s monopoly on the news. Through Internet-fueled, interactive vehicles like weblogs, these readers-turned-reporters are transforming the news from a lecture to a conversation. They re publishing in rea
Author: Pippa Norri
Publisher: World Bank Publication
Keywords: governance, reform, media, news, sentinel, public
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-11-19
ISBN-10: 0821382004
ISBN-13: 9780821382004
The purpose of this book is to inform governance advisors about the vital role of the news media for governance reform. This book approaches the issue of news media and governance with three broad questions that it attempts to answer on the basis of quantitative data and case studies. First, a normative approach asks: What ideal roles should media systems play to strengthen democratic governance and thus bolster human development? Second, an empirical approach considers independent evidence derived from cross-national comparisons and from selected case studies, asking: Under what conditions do
Author: Chantal Alla
Publisher: UBC Pre
Keywords: remarks, american, media, unkind, war, canada, case, bomb
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-07-15
ISBN-10: 189742549X
ISBN-13: 9781897425497
Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what have Americans had to say about their northern neighbor? Chantal Allan examines how the American media have portrayed Canada, from Confederation to the Obama inauguration. Informative, thought-provoking, and at times hilarious, this book reveals another layer in the complex relationship between Canada and the United States.About the AuthorChantal Allan is an award-winning journalist who has reported for CBC Radio and NPR (National Public Radio). Her articles have appeared in the Toronto Star, Los Angeles Daily News, and other publi
