Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501388088 ISBN 13: 9781501388088

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices — computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us — through touch, movement, sound and vision — that is the heart of screen media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on digital media’s currently evolving transformation and transforming capacity this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the representation of data and creative practice. Issues around commodification, identity, identification, and political economy are critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and perceptions that are brought to bear.

About this title

About the Author

Toija Cinque is Associate Professor in Communication (Digital Media) in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. Published works include: Digital Media Ecologies (forthcoming), Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (2015), Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life, 2nd edition (2015) and New Media in Everyday Life (2012).

Jordan Beth Vincent is Executive Manager and Head of Sales and Strategy for Fika Entertainment (www.fikaent.com). Jordan’s interdisciplinary research profile bridges technology (including HCI/human-computer interfaces/motion capture), creative and performing arts. Her research collaborations in the creative industries (cultural labour, gender research) have included co-authoring industry reports for the Ontario Arts Council, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and VicHealth. Jordan is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Industrial Transformation Hub for Digital Enhanced Living.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501388088
• ISBN 13: 9781501388088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Cinque Toija