{"product_id":"cybermedia-9781501357039","title":"Cybermedia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe're experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human. How do these advancements affect contemporary media and music? This collection traces how media, with a focus on sound and image, engages with these new technologies. It bridges the gap between science and the humanities by pairing humanists' close readings of contemporary media with scientists' discussions of the science and math that inform them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text includes contributions by established and emerging scholars performing across-the-aisle research on new technologies, exploring topics such as facial and gait recognition; EEG and audiovisual materials; surveillance; and sound and images in relation to questions of sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and class and includes examples from a range of films and TV shows including \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMr. Robot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMorgan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEx \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe membrane between media and mind has been dissolving for a century. \u003ci\u003eCybermedia \u003c\/i\u003eturns the membrane into an irrigation system. A new kind of practice as much as a book, \u003ci\u003eCybermedia\u003c\/i\u003e brings makers, scientists and scholars into dialogues that pass through old borders, subtly transformed and transforming. From comic books to paranoia, neurotransmitters to Radiohead, \u003ci\u003eCybermedia \u003c\/i\u003eopens a new landscape of social-technical minds and media as things to study and ways of studying them. * Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e Introduction \u003ci\u003eJonathan Leal and Carol Vernallis\u003c\/i\u003e Part I: AI and Robotics 1. Could the AI of Our Dreams Ever Become Reality? \u003ci\u003eJay McClelland\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Director Alex Garland Converses with Cybermedia’s Scientists and Media Scholars \u003ci\u003eJonathan Leal and Carol Vernallis\u003c\/i\u003e 3. (S)Ex Machina and the Cartesian Theater of the Absurd \u003ci\u003eSimon D. Levy and Charles W. Lowney\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Epiphany, Infinity and Transcendent AI Zachary Mason Part II: Big Data, Sentience, and the Universe 5. A MASSIVE Swirl of Pixels: Algorithms in Radiohead’s ‘Go to Sleep’ \u003ci\u003eSteen Ledet Christiansen\u003c\/i\u003e 6. The Rise of the Machine: Body-Knowing, Neural Nets, and Emergent Freedom \u003ci\u003eCharles W. Lowney\u003c\/i\u003e 7. The Quantum Computer as Sci-Fi’s Favorite Character \u003ci\u003eLeonardo P. G. De Assis  \u003c\/i\u003e 8. Composer Ben Salisbury Discusses Scoring Science for Alex Garland \u003ci\u003eHolly Rogers, John McGrath, Carol Vernallis, and Dale Chapman\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Ex Machina and the Question of Consciousness \u003ci\u003eMurray Shanahan  \u003c\/i\u003e Part III: The Neuroscience of Affect and Event Perception 10. ‘A Solid Popularity Arc’: Affective Economies in Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’ \u003ci\u003eDale Chapman\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Cognitive Boundaries, ‘Nosedive’ and Under the Skin: Interview with Jeffrey Zacks \u003ci\u003eCarol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, and Dale Chapman\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Toward an AI Future of Comics Study and Creation: A Cognitive-Affective Approach \u003ci\u003eFrederick Aldama and Laura Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e Part IV: The Digital West 13. The Philosophy of Westworld \u003ci\u003ePaul Skokowski\u003c\/i\u003e 14. New Visions of the Old West: A.I., Self, and Other in Westworld \u003ci\u003eChristopher Minz\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Scoring Music for Westworld Then and Now: A Cognitive Perspective \u003ci\u003eAnnabel J. Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e Part V: Interface, Desire, Collectivity 16. Director Terence Nance Discusses Random Acts of Flyness \u003ci\u003eCarol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, Holly Rogers, Liz Reich and the contributors of Cybermedia\u003c\/i\u003e 17. The Gift of Black Sonics: Interface and Ontology in Sorry to Bother You and Random Acts of Flyness \u003ci\u003eLiz Reich  \u003c\/i\u003e 18. Technology, Chaos, and the Nimble Subversion of Random Acts of Flyness \u003ci\u003eEric Lyon\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Expecting the Twist: How Media Navigate the Intersections Among Different Sources of Prior Knowledge \u003ci\u003eNoah Fram\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Face Color \u003ci\u003eBevil Conway\u003c\/i\u003e Part VI: Productive Neuropathologies 21. Digital Vitalism \u003ci\u003eMarta Figlerowicz\u003c\/i\u003e 22. Neuroplasticity: From Experience to Healing \u003ci\u003eSara Ferrando Colomer\u003c\/i\u003e 23. Where is My Mind? Mr. Robot and the Digital Neuropolis \u003ci\u003ePatricia Pisters\u003c\/i\u003e 24. Dopamine Circuits: Wanting, Liking, Habits, and Goals. An Interview about Mr. Robot with Neuroscientist Talia Lerner \u003ci\u003eJonathan Leal, Carol Vernallis, and Patricia Pisters\u003c\/i\u003e 25. The Taste of Cybermedia: An Interview with Hojoon Lee, The Lee Lab at Northwestern University \u003ci\u003eJulia Peres Guimaraes, Selmin Kara, and Carol Vernallis  \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739786260823,"sku":"9781501357039","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501357039.jpg?v=1720053140","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cybermedia-9781501357039","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}