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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"; Multiple media"”.
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Minimizing Travel Time Through Multiple Media With Various Borders
… wherein travel time is minimized across two media separated by a single, straight boundary line. We then discuss the correlation of this problem with physics via Snells Law. The first core chapter takes this idea and develops it to include the concept of two media with a circular border. To …
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The role of the media in shaping young people’s drinking cultures, practices and related identity making: studies of multiple media platforms
… of research that examined the ways in which the media platforms (magazines, television, marketing, Social Network Sites (SNS)) young people (11-21 years) engage with portrayed alcohol, it’s use and related practice. Young people’s own perspectives, interpretations and experiences were also …
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From Baby Formula To Solid Food: How The Influence Of Media Has Nourished Children's Literature
… juxtaposes children's literature and media and investigates the resulting influence of media on literature. Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin's ideas regarding Remediation in conjunction with Henry Jenkins ideas regarding Convergence Culture provide the framework for my ideas regarding …
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Transmedia storytelling : business, aesthetics and production at the Jim Henson Company
Transmedia narratives use a combination of Barthesian hermeneutic codes, negative capability and migratory cues to guide audiences across multiple media platforms. This thesis examines complex narratives from comics, novels, films and video games, but draws upon the transmedia franchises built …
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Time, Space and Agency: A Dynamical Approach to Narrative in New-Media Artwork
… narrative creation as found in the so-called new-media art field. It focuses on catastrophic models in order to conceptualise, analyse, and create narrative forms with multiple media and diverse formats. It deals with the transmedial nature of story and the phenomena that make it so. In that …
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… experience, and respond to texts. In our hyper-mediated culture, images and texts converge and disseminate across multiple media platforms, changing once-passive readers and spectators into active agents in the intellectual and creative process of interpretation. This thesis examines the …
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The Expanded 'Verse: Serialized Transmediality in Firefly/Serenity
… narratives often extend textual content across multiple media platforms, creating transmedia stories. Recent scholarship has stressed the permeability of "the text," suggesting that the framework of a text, made up of paratexts including trailers and DVD extras, must be included in textual …
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Assessing Parasocial Interactions and Relationships in Real Time
… refer to the connections people form with media characters, particularly through watching television. Transportation is a term used to explain narrative absorption. These concepts have been studied extensively in communication, particularly in laboratory settings. However, the influx of …
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Multiply-mediated households : Space and power reflected in everyday media use
… families incorporate the consumption of multiple media technologies within their home environments. It uses an approach similar to David Morley's (1986) Family Television where he explored the consumption of television programs in the context of everyday family life. He viewed the …
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Porting Transmedia Storytelling to Journalism
<p>This thesis examines how the methods of transmedia storytelling emerging in the entertainment industry might be used in a journalism context. Journalism is facing many crises, not the least of which is a loss of readership and perceived relevance to its public. Presented with an ever-expanding …
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Analysing the development, management and growth of integrated digital communities
… digital domains. A literature review indicates multiple media use within communities. The increasing range of personal and organisational technologies available suggests digital communities are more than just online communities. As such they require a new method of assessment. The design of …
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A Social Marketing Plan for the Children's Safety Center
… participation in prevention programs and social media engagement, in addition to volunteers and donors. The plan was developed based on research on effective nonprofit social marketing plans, research on efficient communication efforts with individuals that participate, volunteer and donate to …
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As the world turns in a convergence culture
… vast content archives, and tell stories through multiple media formats. The study concludes that soap operas should be managed as brands and not ephemeral television content because of their permanence in the television landscape, that fans outside the target advertising demographic should be …
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Interpretations of digital exhibition. Assessing the academic pertinence of commercial and political definitions. A case study
… phenomenon¿s position within the contemporary media theory framework? Within this work Digital Exhibition is defined as: The practice of presenting moving images, either live or pre-recorded, to paying audiences, in public spaces, by means of digital distribution and projection. The majority of …
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XML-Driven Real-time Interactive Virtual Environment (XDRIVE) Engine
… the coordination and display of web-based multimedia presentations that feature three-dimensional content. This 3D content is rendered in real-time, which facilitates user-defined navigation and interaction with objects contained within the 3D virtual environment. These presentations can run …
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Quantitative Recovery of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica from Environmental Sampling Media
… Environmental samples are rarely analyzed immediately, but instead may be batched for later analysis or shipped to an off site testing facility. Multiple media on the market today is used for storage and transport of environmental samples. These various media types, differences in holding …
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Documentation : a reflective practice approach
… application allowing for a "low floor" entry to multiple media editing by the users. It is envisaged that these tools aid in bringing forth the intrinsic "ifs" and "thens," as well as generating the potential for serendipitous learning experiences. All this is very useful in bringing some form of …
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New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom
<p>New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom contends that changing demographic diversity in American higher education and increasing globalization call for curricular and pedagogical transformation of writing courses. The writing curriculum for "globalized classrooms" should be …
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Abundant Rhetoric: Memory, Media, and the Multiplicity of Composition
… ways to teach and practice composition within medial multiplicity.</p> <p>DISS_para>Much of the field's scholarship centering on composition and technology focuses on the idea that composers can be more effective if they are "reflectively aware" of how social conditions along with technological …
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The Anxiety Of Evolution: Biological And Cultural Adaptation From Marcel Proust To Peter Greenaway
… of cultural forms across different media, certain theorists, artists, and authors have turned to the models, metaphors, images, and narrative structures of biological evolution and (post-)Darwinian theory. It argues that, in so doing, they have often tended to reveal their own …
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