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.

Big Data, Digital Media, and Computational Social Science: Possibilities and Perils

Abstract: We live life in the network. We check our e-mails regularly, make mobile phone calls from almost any location ... make purchases with credit cards ... [and] maintain friendships through online social networks. ... These transactions leave digital traces that can be compiled into comprehensive pictures of both individual and group behavior, with the potential to transform our understanding of our lives, organizations, and societies.

The Duality of Media: A Structurational Theory of Public Attention

Abstract: Digital media offer countless options that compete for a limited supply of public attention. The patterns of use that emerge in this environment have important social implications, yet the factors that shape attendance are not well integrated into a single theoretical model. This article posits such a theory using Giddens’s notion of structuration as an overarching framework. It identifies public measures that distill and report user information as a pivotal mechanism that coordinates and directs the behaviors of both media providers and media users, thus promoting the duality of media. The theory is then used to understand evolving patterns of public attention in the digital media environment.

The Netflix Effect: Teens, Binge Watching, and On-Demand Digital Media Trends

Abstract: As more of the audience for television shows opts to view them via Netflix, the practice of binge watching several episodes in a row is becoming normalized quickly. As a result, networks as well as content producers and distributors are rolling out more shows for toddlers, tweens, and teens via video-on-demand, over-the-top streaming services, and mobile apps. This essay explores the debates and discourses circulating in the popular press and online concerning the impact of an on-demand media culture. With seemingly infinite viewing options, instant gratification of converged media enabling TV everywhere, and social networks of TV chatter forming a digital water cooler, new modes of televisual engagement are emerging in youth culture.

Multiple public spheres of Weibo: a typology of forms and potentials of online public spheres in China

Abstract: The advent of online media, and particularly social media, has led to scholarly debates about their implications. Authoritarian countries are interesting in this respect because social media might facilitate open and critical debates that are not possible in traditional media. China is arguably the most relevant and interesting case in this respect, because it limits the influx of non-domestic social media communication, has established its own microcosm of social media and tries to closely monitor and control it and censor problematic content. While such censorship is very effective in some instances, however, it fails to shut down all open debates completely. We analyse the pre-eminent Chinese social media platform – Sina Weibo – and present a typology of different kinds of public spheres that exist on this platform in which open and critical debates can occur under specific circumstances: Thematic public spheres include phenomena of common concern, such as environmental pollution or food safety; short-...

XrML -- eXtensible rights Markup Language

Abstract: XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language) is an XML-based language for digital rights management (DRM), providing a universal method for specifying rights and conditions associated with the use and protection of digital content and services. Originally developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the specification facilitates the creation of an open architecture for digital rights management of content or services. It can be integrated with both existing and new DRM systems. XrML is a general-purpose rights language, agnostic to the type of resource, platform, media, or business applications. The latest release, XrML 2.0, expands the capabilities of a digital rights language to enable developers to establish the rights and conditions needed to access web services in addition to digital content. It also contains additional capabilities in the areas of extensibility, security, and life cycle management. Recent actions in several standards bodies, most notably MPEG, OeBF and OASIS, have positioned XrML to become the world wide industry standard for a digital rights language. This paper provides a brief introduction to XrML, its data model, usage and extensibility as it applies to digital media, multi-tier content distribution and XML-based healthcare information.