{"product_id":"materializing-digital-futures-9781501361258","title":"Materializing Digital Futures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigital, 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 \u003ci\u003eint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003era\u003c\/i\u003esensorial ways of perceiving the world around us  through touch, movement, sound \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e vision \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethat 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 tha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn interesting collection of diverse reflections on sight, image, sound and movement in relation to digital media. * Amanda Third, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eIts themes and concerns are very exciting and timely as we wrestle with big data, new concepts of the self, complex augmented-perception and AR devices and ever-increasing layers of surveillance and self-surveillance. While exploring the prosthetic joys of these new realms, it also helps explain how we grow trapped in our haptics and gamed by our games. * Amedeo D'Adamo, Faculty, American Film Institute, USA and Visiting Professor in the Department of Media, Universita Cattolica, Italy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements and Dedications List of Contributors Introduction Contents page   \u003cb\u003eSECTION ONE: SOCIO-AESTHETICS OF SOUND AND SIGHT\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter One: Virtual Reality, the Chiasm, and the Doubled Body  \u003c\/b\u003e Angela Ndalianis \u003cb\u003eChapter Two:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSensing Sims: Atmospheres, Aesthetics and the Cyborg Player\u003c\/b\u003e Merlin Seller \u003cb\u003eChapter Three: Embodied Audiovisual Experience: The Role of Sound in Contemporary Screen and Digital Media\u003c\/b\u003e Darrin Verhagan and Ben Byrne \u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Volumetric Black: Post-Cinematic Blackness\u003c\/b\u003e Triton Mobley   \u003cb\u003eSECTION TWO: MEANING-MAKING IN THE DATA-DRIVEN ERA OF QUANTIFIED MEDIA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter Five:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eQuantified Me, Curatorial Lives and the Pixelated Spectre of Self\u003c\/b\u003e Toija Cinque \u003cb\u003eChapter Six: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirtual Reality and Kinaesthetic Connection: Qualities of ‘Being There'.\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Vincs \u003cb\u003eChapter Seven: Feminist Memes: Digital Communities, Identity Performance, and Resistance from the Shadows\u003c\/b\u003e Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. Wiens \u003cb\u003eChapter Eight: The Infinite Portrait: A Case of Post-Human Authorship\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew McIntyre   \u003cb\u003eSECTION THREE: TOUCH, BODY, METAL, SCREEN\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eChapter Nine: First Encounters with Robots Through Embodied Observation, Imagined Narrative, and Choreography\u003c\/b\u003e Amy LaViers \u003cb\u003eChapter Ten: Physical Digitality: Making reality visible through multimodal digital affordances for Human Perception \u003c\/b\u003e Luke Heemsbergen, Greg Bowtell and Jordan Beth Vincent \u003cb\u003eChapter Eleven: A True Feel: Re-Embodying the Touch Sense in the Digital Fashion Experience\u003c\/b\u003e Michela Ornati \u003cb\u003eChapter Twelve: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Robots Learn from Performative Relationships and Interactive Performance\u003c\/b\u003e Steph Hutchison and John McCormick    \u003cb\u003eSECTION FOUR: DIGITAL FUTURES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter Thirteen: Smart Home: Smart Devices and the Everyday Experiences of the Home\u003c\/b\u003e Xi Cui \u003cb\u003eChapter Fourteen: Affect and the Digitalization of War\u003c\/b\u003e John MacWillie \u003cb\u003eChapter Fifteen: Automation in a Myth\u003c\/b\u003e Luke Munn \u003cb\u003eChapter Sixteen: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Triadic Typology of Material Mediation: Ontology, Intentionality and Vitalism\u003c\/b\u003e Renata Morais","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531380793687,"sku":"9781501361258","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501361258.jpg?v=1731882881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/materializing-digital-futures-9781501361258","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}