Research Guides: ENG 111-Parker: Books and eBooks

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Introduction to Digital Media by Alessandro Delfanti; Adam Arvidsson
ISBN: 9781119276203
Publication Date: 2019
This book introduces readers to the vast and rich world of digital media. It provides a strong starting point for understanding digital media's social and political significance to our culture and the culture of others--drawing on an emergent and increasingly rich set of empirical and theoretical studies on the role and development of digital media in contemporary societies.
Fake News by Melissa Zimdars (Editor); Kembrew Mcleod (Editor)
ISBN: 9780262538367
Publication Date: 2020
New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. This book examines the real fake news- the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news.
Digital Performance in Everyday Life by Lyndsay Michalik Gratch; Ariel Gratch
ISBN: 9781138342118
Publication Date: 2021
Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Digital communication technologies and the social norms and discourses that developed alongside these technologies have altered the ways we perform as and for ourselves and each other in virtual spaces.
Digital Influence Warfare in the Age of Social Media by James J. F. Forest
ISBN: 9781440870095
Publication Date: 2021
This timely book spotlights how various entities are using the Internet to shape people's perceptions and decision-making. It also describes detailed case studies as well as the tools and methods used to identify automated, fake accounts.
Virtual Ascendance by Devin C. Griffiths
ISBN: 9781442216945
Publication Date: 2013
From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence.
Graffiti Grrlz by Jessica Nydia Pabón-ón
ISBN: 9781479806157
Publication Date: 2018
An inside look at women graffiti artists around the world Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges.

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- Over 35,000 eBooks available to read and download.
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- This database allows you to use an online dictionary and create a citation for the eBook

Digination by Robert C. MacDougall
ISBN: 9781611474404
Publication Date: 2011
Today, with everything from e-mail to blogs, iPods and podcasts, through Google, Yahoo, eBay, and with cutting-edge smart phones, we find ourselves developing relationships with these newest communication tools that aren't simply allowing us to communicate faster, farther and with more ease than ever before. Our interminglings and fusions with digital communication technologies are also altering both individual and group consciousness in fundamental ways.
Music, Sound and Multimedia by Jamie Sexton (Editor)
ISBN: 9780748625345
Publication Date: 2007
This new series aims to explore the area of "screen music". Volume topics will include multimedia music, music and television, Hollywood film music, and the music of Bollywood cinema.
From Pac-Man to Pop Music by Karen Collins (Editor)
ISBN: 9780754662112
Publication Date: 2017
Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to contemporary multi-media, this is the first book that provides a framework for understanding the history, issues and theories surrounding interactive audio.
A Companion to Digital Art by Christiane Paul (Editor); Dana Arnold (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781118475249
Publication Date: 2016
Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today's digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.
Superhero Synergies by James N. Gilmore (Editor); Matthias Stork (Editor)
ISBN: 9781442232112
Publication Date: 2014
In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more.
Digital Arts: Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersections Between Arts, Society and Technology by Marisa Gómez
ISBN: 9781848884274
Publication Date: 2019
The authors of this volume explore some of the challenges and possibilities offered by the intersections between art, technology and society both for the fields of contemporary art and for the articulation of the social-cultural models of the current ‘Digital Age'. Thus, digital arts are approached here not only as an object of study, but also—implicitly or explicitly—as a tool for analyzing our contemporary reality.