Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision (New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media)

Synopsis

We're experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human. How do these advancements affect contemporary media and music? This collection traces how media, with a focus on sound and image, engages with these new technologies. It bridges the gap between science and the humanities by pairing humanists' close readings of contemporary media with scientists' discussions of the science and math that inform them. This text includes contributions by established and emerging scholars performing across-the-aisle research on new technologies, exploring topics such as facial and gait recognition; EEG and audiovisual materials; surveillance; and sound and images in relation to questions of sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and class and includes examples from a range of films and TV shows including Blade Runner, Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Morgan, Ex Machina, and Westworld. Through a variety of critical, theoretical, proprioceptive, and speculative lenses, the collection facilitates interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration and provides readers with ways of responding to these new technologies.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781501357053

Related ISBNs:

9781501357039

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

10/20/21

Copyrighted By:

Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers, Selmin Kara, and Jonathan Leal

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Technology, Social Studies, Music, Philosophy

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Carol Vernallis

Edited by:

Holly Rogers

Edited by:

Jonathan Leal

Edited by:

Selmin Kara