Download or read book Mapping in the Age of Digital Media written by Diana Balmori and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital mapping techniques have altered profoundly the ways we measure and represent space. Combining the insights of designers, theorists, engineers and artists, this volume examines these and related issues, providing an examination of emerging cartographic practices (such as MRI and 3D scanning technology) in the digital age.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. There is a strong appetite for digital media in Turkey. The reach of the internet-both fixed line and mobile-has expanded dramatically in recent years, connecting nearly half the population, although broadband access lags some way behind. Digital broadcasting is limited to the dominant satellite platform, whilst progress towards digital terrestrial services has been negligible. Switch-over is due to be completed by 2014 but the process has been obstructed by a lack of transparency, public consultation, or a convergent regulatory framework. Television remains by far the dominant news medium and newspapers are still an important source of news. The most significant threat to news diversity and quality remains the repressive legal restrictions under which journalists operate. If anything, this has intensified in response to the rise of digital media. Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, makes it illegal to insult Turkey and national identity and has been used as a cover for internet censorship This report calls for a host of measures aimed at depoliticizing the policy process with respect to digitization, strengthening legislative protections against digital censorship, and enhancing the transparency and accountability of regulatory institutions.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media United States written by Benjamin Lennett and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. The media environment in the United States is undergoing a significant transition. Terrestrial, over-the-air television has shrunk to less than 15 percent of households, due to consumers' embrace of pay-TV services including cable, satellite. Broadcast network news from ABC, CBS and NBC that once commanded an overwhelming share of the television audience each lost between one and two million viewers over the past fi ve years, as part of an overall decline in audience size of almost 20 percent since 2005. Traditional print newspapers daily circulation fell by over 31 percent between 2003 and 2009. While local and national television channels remain the most used news sources, the internet is now the third most popular platform for daily news after local and national television. More than 25 percent of adults in the U.S. now commonly access the internet via cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), and some 33 percent of cell phone internet users check news regularly on their devices. The digital transition has also created new opportunities for innovative forms of investigative journalism while undermining the economic foundation that has supported traditional producers of investigative and local public accountability journalism. The net effect remains unclear. In this context, this report calls for policies to promote greater media diversity and protect and promote the public's voice through the enforcement of open internet rules, the allocation of spectrum to unlicensed and other innovative uses, an expansion of the universal service fund to broadband, and the broadening of entities that can receive it. In order to strengthen commercial media, the newly proposed public interest obligation reporting rules need to be implemented. Increased public and philanthropic funding for both public and community media is needed. In today's political context, many of these recommendations are a tall order. However, all are necessary if the United States is to develop the diverse media that will support democracy and the information needs of its communities.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media China written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. The story of media digitization in China is inseparable from the country's recent modernization. Probably nowhere else have so many other things been changing at the same time as the technological advances with which this study is concerned. And probably nowhere else has digitization flourished on such a scale in such a closed media environment. As a result, digitization has transformed the diversity of information and public opinion for many millions of people. As of December 2011, there were 513 million internet users, 155 million broadband subscribers, and over 1 billion mobile phone users in China. At the same time, the internet is still beyond the reach of 800 million Chinese who rely almost exclusively on television for their information and entertainment, in particular the mammoth state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). But a sign of the profound changes taking place is that this year (2012) the time people spend on the internet is set to overtake that which they spend watching television. Although China is already the world's biggest media market, there are still hundreds of millions of people with little knowledge or understanding of how the media are used and how they might use the media. A nationwide media literacy campaign would help educate people to participate in public life so that the opportunities which digitization brings can be more widely enjoyed.
Download or read book Mapping Web Sites written by Paul Kahn and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is about visualising collections of electronic information through information graphics. Web site mapping can be used for supporting the planning progress, the understanding & navigation of visitors & the management of the site.
Download or read book Digital Media Projection Design and Technology for Theatre written by Alex Oliszewski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre covers the foundational skills, best practices, and real-world considerations of integrating digital media and projections into theatre. The authors, professional designers and university professors of digital media in live performance, provide readers with a narrative overview of the professional field, including current industry standards and expectations for digital media/projection design, its related technologies and techniques. The book offers a practical taxonomy of what digital media is and how we create meaning through its use on the theatrical stage. The book outlines the digital media/projection designer’s workflow into nine unique phases. From the very first steps of landing the job, to reading and analyzing the script and creating content, all the way through to opening night and archiving a design. Detailed analysis, tips, case studies, and best practices for crafting a practical schedule and budget, to rehearsing with digital media, working with actors and directors, to creating a unified design for the stage with lighting, set, sound, costumes, and props is discussed. The fundamentals of content creation, detailing the basic building blocks of creating and executing digital content within a design is offered in context of the most commonly used content creation methods, including: photography and still images, video, animation, real-time effects, generative art, data, and interactive digital media. Standard professional industry equipment, including media servers, projectors, projection surfaces, emissive displays, cameras, sensors, etc. is detailed. The book also offers a breakdown of all key related technical tasks, such as converging, warping, and blending projectors, to calculating surface brightness/luminance, screen size and throw distance, to using masks, warping content and projection mapping, making this a complete guide to digital media and projection design today. An eResource page offers sample assets and interviews that link to current and relevant work of leading projection designers.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media Sweden written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Sweden's media system is based on the dominance of public service broadcasters and high newspaper penetration. However, while press circulation figures are still among the highest in the world, the overall consumption of broadcast media has decreased slightly over the last five years. At the same time, levels of internet penetration and computer use are among the highest in the world. Digitization seems to have affected general media preferences much more than news media preferences. The battles over entertainment (movies, sport and drama) seem largely to be lost to commercial media, but public service radio and TV have maintained their position as trustworthy and reliable news providers. Television news still reaches 83 percent of the population every day, and SVT and Sveriges Radio (Radio of Sweden) are still the most trusted outlets, along with TV4, the largest private channel. In terms of media ownership: concentration at the national level is the dominant trend in the newspaper and television markets. (Sweden has no law against media ownership concentration.) This presents a threat to independent news media. Looking ahead, the core challenge facing public service broadcasting is the transition to public service media. Politicians have generally been supportive of the expansion of public service onto new platforms, and there is a social consensus that public service media remain important.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Media debate in Hungary has been dominated since mid-2010 by a new and far-reaching package of media laws, referred to collectively as the 2010 media regulation. Ostensibly enacted to bring the country's legal framework into line with the needs of the digital era, these media laws have profound implications for nearly all aspects of this report ranging from the conditions and timetable for the digital switch-over, to the availability of unbiased and diverse information, to journalists working practices. Adding to the uncertainty generated by these laws are their frequent modifications; several websites and at least one organization have been created solely for the purpose of monitoring and recording the amendments. One of the most significant and far-reaching changes introduced by the regulation is an overhaul of the public broadcasting system. Three separate public broadcasters have been consolidated into a single structure, creating a new supervisory body, the Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund, which took overall the broadcasters' assets and most of their staff, and is responsible for producing public service programs. The directors of the broadcasters and of the fund are appointed by the Media Council. All forms of expression are threatened by the new regulation's broadening of all content provisions and applying these to printed press materials (including written products of daily print and online news portals), where spectrum scarcity does not exist to justify any content provisions beyond the bare minimum consistent with international norms. Among the recommendations suggested by this report are the introduction of a new set of media laws, informed by extensive public consultation; reforming spectrum allocation policy to establish specific and transparent criteria; making the tender applications public; and taking spectrum allocation out of the hands of the media authority. Further recommendations include the abolition of the registry of online media outlets introduced by the 2010 law, and a full provision on source protection, significantly broadening the December 2011 ruling by the Constitutional Court.
Download or read book Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age written by Pol Bargués-Pedreny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, maps have been a powerful tool in the constitutive imaginary of governments seeking to define or contest the limits of their political reach. Today, new digital technologies have become central to mapping as a way of formulating alternative political visions. Mapping can also help marginalised communities to construct speculative designs using participatory practices. Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age explores how the development of new digital technologies and mapping practices are transforming global politics, power, and cooperation. The book brings together authors from across political and social theory, geography, media studies and anthropology to explore mapping and politics across three sections. Contestations introduces the reader to contemporary developments within mapping and explores the politics of mapping as a form of knowledge and contestation. Governance analyses mapping as a set of institutional practices, providing key methodological frames for understanding global governance in the realms of urban politics, refugee control, health crises and humanitarian interventions and new techniques of biometric regulation and autonomic computation. Imaginaries provides examples of future-oriented analytical frameworks, highlighting the transformation of mapping in an age of digital technologies of control and regulation. In a world conceived as without borders and fixed relations, new forms of mapping stress the need to rethink assumptions of power and knowledge. This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role ofmapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers working within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and technology.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media Spain written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Digital Game Culture in China written by Marcella Szablewicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marcella Szablewicz traces what she calls the topography of digital game culture in urban China, drawing our attention to discourse and affect as they shape the popular imaginary surrounding digital games. Szablewicz argues that games are not mere sites of escape from Real Life, but rather locations around which dominant notions about failure, success, and socioeconomic mobility are actively processed and challenged. Covering a range of issues including nostalgia for Internet cafés as sites of youth sociality, the media-driven Internet addiction moral panic, the professionalization of e-sports, and the rise of the self-proclaimed loser (diaosi), Mapping Digital Game Culture in China uses games as a lens onto youth culture and the politics of everyday life in contemporary China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2015 and first-hand observations spanning over two decades, the book is also a social history of urban China’s shifting technological landscape.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media Egypt written by Rasha Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media United Kingdom written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Research shows that near-universal digital media access in the United Kingdom has yielded broad benefits for citizenship and democracy. But key areas of concern have emerged that continue to pose threats to independence and diversity. These include sustained financial crises within regional and local media, public service broadcasting, and the press sector at large; acute sites of cross-media concentration; and persistent digital divides in terms of access to quality output. This report calls on policymakers to consider new funding options and structures to safeguard the future of public-interest oriented news. It also argues for establishing a Media Commission to research and make recommendations on the future of the news media in the UK.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media France written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, the digital switch-over for television proceeded in a relatively timely and uncontested fashion, with appropriate support for disadvantaged households and an effective public awareness campaign. Digital licensing has also proved largely responsive and adequate to the challenges of digitization. However, the new government faces a plethora of loose ends in digital media policy. It remains to be seen whether public subsidies aimed at regenerating good-quality journalism in both print and online sectors have been effective; there is a significant shortfall in the funding of public service media as a result of their reduced advertising quotas, and the European Commission's rejection of a planned levy on telecoms; political support for traditional media in their plight against online giants such as Google may backfire if the latter carries out its threat to exclude their content; and public trust in the media is unlikely to be restored so long as entrenched links between political and media elites are maintained.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. On November 25, 2008, Germany completed the transition from analog to digital terrestrial television transmission. In 2012, all analog satellite reception will cease. Digitization of broadcasting has increased the choice of both public and private television channels and has led to an increasing acceptance of terrestrial transmission overall, which had been declining. German society is famously supportive of public service broadcasting, which is seen not as a service of or for the state, but as a public service. The latest research suggests that public broadcasters are seen as more informal, modern, and entertaining than before, without having lost their traditional reputation for quality. Younger people agree that public broadcasters have more credibility, but they think that private broadcasters are more likeable. There have been no digitization-based amendments to media concentration laws. The effects of digitization on the practice of journalism are ambiguous. On the one hand, journalists have many more sources, can investigate issues faster and in much more detail, and interact with their audience. On the other hand, journalism faces new, nonprofessional or semiprofessional competitors, has lost its gatekeeper monopoly, and can no longer rely on its traditional business model. Looking ahead, digitization will continue to deliver greater plurality and diversity as traditional media lose their dominant market positions in news selection and interpretation. Meanwhile, the strong consensus in support of public service media and support for quality journalism should offset the negative effects of the digital revolution on journalism standards. This puts Germany in a fortunate position, not just by global standards but by European standards.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media Russia written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. In the two years preceding the financial crisis of 2008, Russia experienced unparalleled growth that helped boost computer ownership, internet subscription rates, and advertising in the media. The crisis and subsequent recession coincided with changes in the Kremlin and also significantly contributed to, the rapid ascent of online media and of new communication tools. All four factors: the boom, the crisis, the new ruling tandem, and the explosion of online communication have had a significant impact on the media and on news consumption in Russia. The growing prominence of online media as a source of news marks the biggest shift in news consumption. Nearly half of all internet users or more than 20 million people regularly read news online. The internet is virtually the only platform where criticism of the government is tolerated. There have been no major attempts by the authorities to block or limit access to online information. The internet has provided opportunities for public expression for marginalized minorities, including guest workers from Central Asia and sexual minorities. It has also been used as a tool for civic activism and digital mobilizations. Two significant discussions need to be initiated in the near future to help to prevent further deterioration of news quality and to ensure that the public interest is served. Firstly, debate among media professionals on ethical norms in journalism in general and in new media in particular, which would ideally result in developing a set of standards recognized by a sizeable proportion of Russia's journalistic community. The second is a public debate on public service broadcasting, which should lead to the drafting of a roadmap of transition from state-controlled outlets and eventually to drafting legislation spelling out the role and remit of public broadcasters.
Download or read book Mapping Digital Media Colombia written by Open Society Foundations and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colombia, analog free-to-air television is still by far the most influential source of news. Digitization seems to be increasing both the quantity and range of news and the total public consumption of media as many traditional outlets now have online versions, while some new online only outlets have been born in recent years and gained recognition as new providers. Internet use is increasing very fast in urban areas and higher socioeconomic groups. Public media have been strengthened in recent years, and public service provision is considered an important issue in Colombia. The transition to digital terrestrial television (DTT) is seen as both a challenge and an opportunity to public media. Digital activism too has grown in Colombia, and active internet users have proved the power of social networking, which has become very popular. Political debates and hostage rescue operations have, among others, triggered big digital mobilizations, especially on Facebook and Twitter. The policy and regulatory framework for digital media is still being defined as the media regulatory framework itself is functional, but there are several procedural flaws in the implementation.
