Opens up for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world…. More >>

Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

Having been in this industry for over 30 years, I have a good sense of reality when it comes to operations and marketing. As founder and CEO of FohBoh (Front of House, Back of House) I can now share my thoughts and experiences on how best to use and benefit from social media for B2B and B2C applications.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>

Social Media for the Restaurant Industry

In recent years, virtual communities have attracted the attention of scientists and researchers across a variety of disciplines as the cross-disciplinary nature of the field creates the potential for a wider impact than initially intended or anticipated. Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis provides an analysis of virtual communities, explaining their lifecycle in terms of maturity-based models and workflows. An authoritative reference source valuable to academicians, practitioners, and researchers, this book reflects upon key results of research and development projects within online groups…. More >>

Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis

“The thought-provoking and wide-ranging essays in this excellent new collection insist that we take both ‘media’ and ‘globalization’ as complex, dynamic, and inextricably related categories. Furthermore, they validate the editors’ insistence that the field of media studies is most profitably organized around understanding changing and unpredictable relationships among media forms and the tangled web of institutions, practices, and processes that constitute ‘the media’ at the beginning of the twenty-first century.”—Robert C. Allen, coeditor of The Television Studies Reader”The editors have assembled a truly provocative collection of essays. This is cutting-edge scholarship at its best.”—Timothy Corrigan, University of PennsylvaniaRhetoric about media technology tends to fall into two extreme categories: unequivocal celebration or blanket condemnation. This is particularly true in debate over the clash of values when first world media infiltrate third world audiences. … More >>

Global Currents: Media and Technology Now

MEDIA NOW, Sixth Edition, empowers you to think critically about the media and its effects on culture by providing a thorough understanding of how media technologies develop, operate, converge, and affect society. MEDIA NOW prepares you for encounters in the expanding fields of the Internet, interactive media, and traditional media industries through engaging, up-to-date material that covers the essential history, theories, concepts, and technical knowledge you need to thrive. Extensively updated in a new sixth edition, MEDIA NOW provides a comprehensive introduction to today’s global media environment and ongoing developments in technology, culture, and critical theory that continue to transform this rapidly evolving industry and affect our daily lives…. More >>

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology

Thoughts about the latest news in the law and business of Hollywood labor, digital media, traditional entertainment, IP, and technology. From Jonathan Handel, Of Counsel at TroyGould in Los Angeles.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>

Digital Media Law

In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors consider the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres. The collection is genuinely interdisciplinary, as well as international in its range, with contributors and studies from China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Britain, and Australia…. More >>

Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media

Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn’t new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the two have been merging in recent decades. As this process permeates more of everyday life, the urgent necessity arises to rethink both biology and technology. Indeed, the human body can no longer be regarded either as a bounded entity or as a naturally given and distinct part of an unquestioned whole. Bits of Life assumes a posthuman definition of the body. It is grounded in questions about today’s biocultures, which pertain neither to humanist bodily integrity nor to the anthropological assumption that human bodies are the only ones that matter. Editors Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke aid in mapping changes and transformations and in striking a middle road between the metaphor and the materia… More >>

Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology

DigitalMediaBuzz.com was created to help digital media professionals keep up with the latest trends, news, discussions and new products and services in the industry.DigitalMediaBuzz.com’s mission is to inform, educate, share ideas and promote discussion about the latest developments in digital media and the future direction of the industry. Follow the top digital media news, get questions answered by industry experts, discover the newest products, services and technologies, read feature articles from industry leaders and learn about the hottest interactive agencies.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>

Digital Media Buzz

Based on extensive research, this practical guide offers library media specialists and teachers solutions and practical applications of educational technology within subject disciplines to help improve the achievement of at-risk students. Working in partnership, library media specialists and teachers at all levels of the educational system will find lesson plans, successful case studies, and project ideas for replication in language arts, science, and social studies. Mendrinos, an expert in educational technology, provides the results of her research into trends in integrating technology and information literacy into the curriculum and the effects of these cutting-edge efforts on the achievement of at-risk students. She then offers practical applications of successful teaching units for use with at-risk students. Exceptional educational technology programs show how to weave multimedia software, CD-ROM technology, videodiscs, and Internet resources into the curriculum to enhance learnin… More >>

Using Educational Technology with At-Risk Students: A Guide for Library Media Specialists and Teachers