Thinking Through Digital Media

Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places speculates on animation, documentary, experimental, interactive, and narrative media that probe human-machine performances, virtual migrations, global warming, structural inequality, and critical cartographies across Brazil, Canada, China, India, USA, and elsewhere.

Provides both a roadmap to new media technologies as well as context and scholarly analysis Examines digital practices from lesser studied areas, including the Middle East/North African region, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as North America, Europe, and East Asia Fits in with current examinations of digital humanities and advances the field in film and digital arts, and clearly links film studies and journalism to digital and new media practices through cutting edge examples

Autorentext
Author Dale Hudson: Dale Hudson is Associate Teaching Professor and Curator of Film and New Media at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Author Patricia R. Zimmermann: Patricia R. Zimmermann is Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College, USA and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

Inhalt
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Taking Things Apart: Taking things Apart to Convene Micropublics 2. Mapping Open Space to Visualize Other Knowledges 3. Documenting Databases and Mobilizing Cameras 4. Tactical Gaming and Narrowcasting for more Equitable Knowledge Distribution 5. Collaborative Remix Zones: Towards a Critical Cinephilia