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Digital media
About: Digital media is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17508 publications have been published within this topic receiving 266693 citations. The topic is also known as: machine-readable data.
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TL;DR: The authors explored how narrators of It Gets Better videos make use of generic intertextuality, strategically combining the canonical narrative genres of the exemplum, the testimony, and the confession in a way that allows them to claim "textual authority" and to make available multiple moral positions for themselves and their listeners.
Abstract: The It Gets Better project has been held up as a model of successful social media activism. This article explores how narrators of It Gets Better videos make use of generic intertextuality, strategically combining the canonical narrative genres of the exemplum, the testimony, and the confession in a way that allows them to claim ‘textual authority’ and to make available multiple moral positions for themselves and their listeners. This strategy is further facilitated by the ambiguous participation frameworks associated with digital media, which make it possible for storytellers to tell different kinds of stories to different kinds of listeners at the same time, to simultaneously comfort the victims of anti-gay violence, confront its perpetrators, and elicit sympathy from ‘onlookers’. This analysis highlights the potential of new practices of online storytelling for social activism, and challenges notions that new media are contributing to the demise of common narrative traditions. (Activism, digital media, genre, LGBT discourse, narrative, positioning)*
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31 Oct 2013TL;DR: In this article, a transactional-based media distribution model is proposed to provide a subscription credit for selective use by a user to pay for transactional access to a physical copy of a media program distributed by a media vending kiosk distribution channel.
Abstract: An exemplary system 1) provides, based on a subscription of a user to a media service, the user of the media service with subscription-based access to media programs distributed by way of a subscription-based media distribution model that utilizes a digital media distribution channel, 2) issues, based on the subscription of the user to the media service, a subscription credit for selective use by the user to pay for transactional-based access to a physical copy of a media program distributed by way of a transactional-based media distribution model that utilizes a media vending kiosk distribution channel, and 3) provides at least one tool configured for use by the user to indicate whether the subscription credit will be applied as payment in a transaction to access the physical copy of the media program by way of the transactional-based media distribution model. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
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Book•
15 Apr 2010
TL;DR: Adolescents' Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture is a compilation of new work that makes concrete connections between what the research literature portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and media specialists know to be the case in their own situations.
Abstract: Adolescents' Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture is a compilation of new work that makes concrete connections between what the research literature portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and media specialists know to be the case in their own situations. The authors (educators and researchers who span three continents) focus on ways to incorporate and use the digital literacies that young people bring to school.
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13 Aug 2010
TL;DR: Many schools have been reluctant to allow students to use digital participatory media for learning during the school day because digital media are so pervasive among youth and offer new avenues for civic participation, schools must rethink how they prepare students for active, participatory citizenship.
Abstract: Many schools, however, have been reluctant to allow students to use digital participatory media for learning during the school day Because digital media are so pervasive among youth and offer new avenues for civic participation, schools must rethink how they prepare students for active, participatory citizenship In short, the civic mission of schools has broadened to include the mission of preparing “digital citizens”3 — those who use digital media to fulfill their civic duty
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16 Sep 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the case of the Digital Video Recorder is discussed. But the focus is on the advertising form in contemporary US TV and not the content of the video itself.
Abstract: Introduction 1 Cinema and Wireless in Turn of the Century Imagination 2 The Wireless Nation: Defining Radio as a Domestic Technology 3 The Amateur, the Housewife, and the Salesroom Floor: The Hesitations of Postwar US TV 4 US Television Abroad: 1960 - 1990 5 'Mission number one is to kill TV': Remaking Domestic Television Apparatus in the 1990s 6 Weather Porn and the Battle for Eyeballs: The Transition to Digital Broadcasting in the US and UK 7 Redefining the Home Screen: The Case of the Digital Video Recorder 8 Marketers Strike Back: Virtual Advertising 9 'How God Watches Television': Early Responses to Digital TV 10 High Tech in a Falling Market: Interactivity and Advertising Form in Contemporary US TV 11 'Too easy, too cheap, and too fast too control': Intellectual Property Battles in Digital TV Select Bibliography
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