Reimagining Communication: Mediation

Reimagining Communication: Mediation explores information and media technologies across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses, content variations, audiences, and professional roles. A diverse body of contributions in this unique interdisciplinary resource offers perspectives on digital games, social media, photography, and more. The volume is organized to reflect a pedagogical approach of carefully laddered and sequenced topics, which supports experiential, project-based learning in addition to a course’s traditional writing requirements. As the field of Communication Studies has been continuously growing and reaching new horizons, this volume synthesizes the complex relationship of communication to media technologies and its forms in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. This is an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies.

Contents Series Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova) Volume Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova) Table of Contents for Reimagining Communication: Mediation Chapter 1 Media Archaeology and Mediation: the Magic Lantern as an Object of Theoretical Reflection Francisco Javier Frutos Carmen López San Segundo Chapter 2 Intangible Photography Grant Rivers Chris Ingraham Chapter 3 Cinema Studies Sean Maher Chapter 4 Video: Aesthetics/Agonism/Anti-dialectics Timothy Barker Chapter 5 Uneasy Intimacies: Acoustic Space and Machines of Presence Adam Hulbert Chapter 6 Ante-Narrative and the Animated Time Image Hotessa Laurence Chapter 7 The Medium of Comics; or the Art of Co-Presence Neil Curtis Chapter 8 Visualizing the News: Conceptual Foundations and Emerging Technology Russell Chun Chapter 9 Facilitating communicative environments: An exploration of game modalities as facilitators of prosocial change Jessica Wendorf Muhamad Karen Schrier Laura-Kate Huse Chapter 10 Augmented Reality Aarón Rodríguez Serrano Marta Martín Núñez Shaila García Catalán Chapter 11 Social Media Tanner Mirrlees Chapter 12 The Rise of Consumer Generated Content and Its Transformative Effect on Advertising Naim Çinar Chapter 13 Music in Streams: Communicating Music in the Streaming Paradigm Anja Nylund Hagen Chapter 14 Digital Copyright Steve Collins and Sherman Young Chapter 15 Reimagining copies in digital networks Margie Borschke Chapter 16 Questioning algorithms and agency: facial biometrics in algorithmic contexts Michelle Wilson Chapter 17 Digital Privacy & Interdisciplinarity: Tendencies, Problems, and Possibilities Tommy Cooke Chapter 18 Reimagining Communication with Conversational User Interfaces: Anthropomorphic Design and Conversational User Experience Sergio Sayago Josep Blat Chapter 19 Brain Computer Interface David J. Gunkel List of contributors Index

Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation. Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and a Communications Instructor at Columbia College – both in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human-computer interaction and communication. Sport shapes the essence of her research which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.