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The telephone, the television, and the computer are three of the most potent inventions of the 20th century and have completely transformed world society. But what happens when you combine all three into one powerful communications medium? This program examines the growing convergence of phones, TVs, and computers in Cyberspace and the radical impact on businesses, homes, and schools in this "many-to-many" communications model. Is the day coming when...
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The Internet is the new training ground for terrorist organizations-a readily accessible, globally distributed broadcasting platform for recruitment, indoctrination, and instructional videos. With unprecedented access to al Qaeda and radical jihadi video content, this program provides penetrating insights into the minds of those who produce these underground films-and of those who watch them. Jihadi video producer Omar Bakri and jihadi media distributor...
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"'Digital Portfolios, Second Edition: Powerful Tools for Promoting Professional Growth and Reflection' provides a framework and strategies for developing a digital portfolio that records professional growth and development goals, and celebrates achievements. This complete resource offers guidelines and techniques for each step in the process, from determining your audience and selecting material from a personal archive, to defining, producing, and...
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"As a core text for undergraduate courses in new media, media ethics, and global communication, Ethics in the digital domain helps students explore the big questions surrounding the impact of the digital domain on our daily lives. There are those who promise an enhanced human future through adoption and acceptance of digital culture, and those who condemn this shift in no uncertain terms. What are the positions taken by futurists and technology inventors...
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The rise of the Internet has meant that ordinary people can be both producers and distributors of information and opinions through the use of a Weblog (blog). But with more than eight million blogs already in existence, how many bloggers are really being heard? And is what they have to say serious, well-researched journalism, or just a rant - and should it matter? This program profiles the emergence of blogs, looks at their negatives and positives,...
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This book is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the third-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what...
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"The study of what is collectively labeled 'New Media' -- the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology -- has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field, with many universities now offering it as a major. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media is the first comprehensive reference work to which teachers, students, and the curious can quickly turn...
14) The Book Makers
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The Book Makers profiles an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question: what should books become in the digital age? From the intimate studio space of book artists to the vast digital library of the Internet Archive, the film spins a tale of the enduring vitality of the book.This fascinating documentary taps into the tangible connection humans have to physical books, introducing artists, authors, collectors,...
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Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that shape them affect how we think, act, communicate, and understand the world. But the pace of change has been so rapid that technical innovation is outstripping design. Interactors are often mystified and frustrated by their enticing but confusing new devices; meanwhile, product design teams struggle to articulate shared and enduring design goals. With Inventing...
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The flow of information through our modern digital world has led to many new issues and controversies. Information Literacy in the Digital Age examines the challenges involved in seeking and evaluating information from the vast array of sources available through digital technology.
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In this film, watch as Rick Davis interviews associate producer Kathleen Jones. Jones shares experiences regarding her work in television and film productio, including her career pathway from internships to unpaid freelance work to full-time, paid freelance work. Learn about her various projects involving subjects including dogs and the death penalty with a studio audience that poses questions.
18) The End of tv
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With the increasing popularity of YouTube, video blogs, Internet-based newscasts, Slingbox, and made-for-mobile content, has the time finally come to turn off the TV? This exploration of whether-or when-nontraditional video will topple commercial television looks at how New Media is changing the way video is both created and consumed. In the process, host Jian Ghomeshi gathers the insights and opinions of former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon; Boing...
19) The End of radio
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Today's teens still listen to a lot of music, but it doesn't come from conventional radio. In this program, host Jian Ghomeshi takes the pulse of an industry that seems to be on the verge of dying as the shortcomings of airwave radio are measured against Internet radio, podcasting, satellite radio, and HD radio. Perspectives are provided by Bob Roback, of Yahoo! Music; Ralph Simon, of Mobile Entertainment Forum; Rusty Hodge, founder of Internet radio...
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Consumers can now create, consume and converse and the complexity of media that now sees multiple channels accessed through multiple devices has created major challenged for today's marketing and advertising professionals. Paid, Owned, Earned offers a framework that decodes that socially connected media landscape and helps select the right marketing options for now and the future.
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