[PDF] Exploring The Digital Domain eBook

Author : Ken Abernethy
Publisher : Course Technology
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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With Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen's fresh approach to the introductory computing course, students develop the skills to understand, create, work and communicate using digital media and networks. Excitement builds via the book and the accompanying Web site as students discover the worlds of image processing, digital sound, web publishing, and much more. The organizing theme for the book is that the computer is not merely a tool but rather itself a medium for representing, storing, manipulating, and communicating different forms of information: text, numbers, graphics, images, sounds, and video. The book focuses on digital media rather than the customary survey of applications software designed to process these media. In addition to teaching basic computer skills, the authors promote information fluency in which students gain an understanding of the foundational concepts on which the technology is derived and develop higher-level intellectual capabilities for applying the technology.

Author : Ken Abernethy
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
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For those ready to expand their computer literacy beyond word processing basics, two computer experts introduce the domains of sights, sounds, multimedia presentations, the Web/ HTML, spreadsheets, data communications, computer networks, and artificial intelligence. Includes chapter review questions, projects, a supporting web site, an extensive glossary demystifying terms from ADSR to ZCAV, and illustrations. A CD-ROM would have been welcome. Appropriate as a textbook for sundry introductory level computer courses. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
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Piers Brizony has gained complete access to the headquarters of Digital Domain in Venice, California, in order to produce the first ever book on the company's work at the cutting edge of the special- effects industry. Covers major films of recent years: Titanic, Apollo 13, True Lies.

Author : Melanie Dulong De Rosnay
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 1906924457

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Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use - copyright and related rights - have become increasingly restrictive. This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, who were all part of the EU-funded Communia project. Together the authors argue that the Public Domain - that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information - is fundamental to a healthy society. The essays range from more theoretical papers on the history of copyright and the Public Domain, to practical examples and case studies of recent projects that have engaged with the principles of Open Access and Creative Commons licensing. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the current debate about copyright and the Internet. It opens up discussion and offers practical solutions to the difficult question of the regulation of culture at the digital age.

Author : Robert S. Fortner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1538121867

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As a core text for undergraduate courses in new media, media ethics, and global communication, Ethics in the Digital Domainhelps students explore the big questions surrounding the impact of the digital domain on our daily lives. There are those who promise an enhanced human future through adoption and acceptance of digital culture, and those who condemn this shift in no uncertain terms. What are the positions taken by futurists and technology inventors and adopters on these issues? Through a series of case studies, this groundbreaking text challenges students to consider the future they will inhabit. Should they fear such changes or embrace them? What ethical systems will help provide guidance in this new world? What role will they have to play in this ecosystem? Will their humanity survive? Does it matter? Presented in a format designed to initiate debate and discussion, Ethics in the Digital Domain covers enduring debates in ethics such as privacy, copyright, libel, consent, surveillance and the necessity for truthful discourse. It also looks at new dimensions introduced by media practices in digital media, including: 24/7 tracking of handheld devices machine-to-machine and machine-to-human communication promises of immortality in the cloud the movement of AI robots toward humanlike activities Regardless of where students stand on the different issues raised here, they will find themselves in ethical conundrums because the tensions raised are both ordinary and profound in the new world of digital media ethics.

Author : Virginia Heffernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1501132679

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Virginia Heffernan gives a highly informative analysis of what the internet is and can be in an examination of its past, present and future.

Author : Federica Ceci
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030878422

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Innovation is occurring at a rapid pace in digital work and demands increasing attention from academic scholars. In line with this demand, this book aims to provide an overview of recent advances in studies of innovation and technology in the digital space. The book addresses the cultural elements influencing the diffusion and adoption of digital technologies, the pervasive role of social media, the organizational challenges of digital transformations, and finally specific emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology. The plurality of views offered makes this book particularly relevant to practitioners, academics, and policymakers, and provides an up-to-date view of the latest developments in Information Systems. It gathers a selection of the best papers (double-blind peer-reviewed) presented at the annual conference of the Italian AIS Chapter in October 2020 in Pescara, Italy.