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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"New Media Technologies"”.
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The Influence of New Media Technologies on African Literature
This study investigates the role of new media technologies in the development of African literature. It examines the different ways that these new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones have revolutionised the way Africans write and read literary works on the continent. African …
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The adoption of new media technologies by the Namibia print media: A case study of the New Era and the Namibian newspaper
… study investigated the strategies employed by newspapers in Namibia to adopt new media technologies in their daily operations with a specific focus on New Era and The Namibian newspaper. The study also assessed how the print media has adopted new media technologies and examined how new media …
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Negotiating inclusion: new 'alternative' media and the institutional journalistic practices of print journalists in Nigeria
… ethnographic approach (in-depth interviews and newsrooms observations) combined with Critical Discourse Analysis to closely interrogate how journalists in four Nigerian print newsrooms; The Punch, Vanguard, Nigerian Tribune and Guardian, appropriate ‘alternative media’ content and new media …
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New media hauntings : digital aesthetics of haunting, context collapse, and networked spectrality
… spectrality’ to theorise depictions of new media hauntings. Ghost stories often include the latest technologies to establish the realistic setting, but technological advance also affords new opportunities to depict ghost stories. I argue that the early twenty-first-century technologies …
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An exploratory study of new media adoption for participatory programming in southwest Nigeria’s radio stations
… role conceptions and perceived attributes of new technologies, among other external forces, shape broadcast journalists’ intention and actual use of new media technologies. An integrated model developed from extant technology adoption and role conception theories was used to examine individual …
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The impact of changing media technology on the practice of journalism
… here constitute an examination of the impact of new media technologies (focusing on social media) on the practice of journalism, with an emphasis on integrating empirical and sociological research. The use of a combination of content analysis, interviews and personal reflections and columns by …
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Darśan - Dance for Kriśna
… By presenting ancient stories through new media technologies, "Darśana" explores the potential of modern technology to reinterpret and revitalize traditional practices and beliefs for contemporary audiences, drawing their attention to their cultural heritage.
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Online diasporic political spheres: inside the emerging spaces for Zimbabweans
The study investigates how online media are contributing to democracy in Africa. It is interested in the growing online media spaces and their democratic promise. The case study is on diasporic media by citizens from troubled Zimbabwe, whose mass media environment remained a subject of much debate. …
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Shifting Interfaces: art research at the intersections of live performance and technology
… including contemporary dance, digital and new media arts and non-art domains such as cognitive and social science. Fields are understood in the context of this research to be largely constituted out of the expert practices of individual collaborators. This research starts from an interest …
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Environmental Movements in China’s Digital Age
New media technologies have transformed environmental campaigns and activism in China. The social media affords both Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and local protester communities the opportunity to embrace the dynamics of environmental movements in the digital age, when flexible networks of …
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Fooling ourselves : topics and design strategies for media architecture, integrated media, and composite reality
The rapid expansion of new media technologies is exacerbating inherent flaws embedded in the common multimedia display, or screen. As of 2015 the average American spends more time perceptually engaged with virtual content via screens than with the real world, with adverse effects. The current …
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Screenplays : writing, discourse, and process
… and shape story and meaning remains unchanged by new media, technologies, and practices.
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Sound Matters in Poetry, Music, and Arts Under Dictatorship in Brazil
… popular music, and fine art—established new models for poetic, musical, and artistic interventions in which sounding and listening practices were set to destabilize traumatic experiences under the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964–1985. The cases analyzed in this dissertation are a …
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Radio After Radio: Redefining radio art in the light of new media technology through expanded practice
… have been considering how the convergence of new media technologies has redefined radio art, addressing the ways in which this has extended the boundaries of the art form. This practice-based research explores the rich history of radio as an artistic medium and the relationship between the …
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Decolonizing Nunavut's Art Market
… By fusing Indigenous cultural heritage and new media technologies to centralize artwork, storytelling, and worldviews, the Inuit futurisms movement is contesting the digital divide that sustains a persistent colonial narrative of Arctic history. Decolonizing and Indigenizing information and …
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Enhanced e-learning and simulation for obstetrics education
Background: In medicine, new media technologies have been used in recent years to simulate situations and techniques that may not be common enough for students to experience in reality or may not be visible to the naked eye. Especially in areas of medicine focusing on important surgeries or …
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Seizing the memes of production : political memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
… austerity measures. This thesis also develops new insights into the collective meme production process. In particular, the work demonstrates that participation within internet meme culture takes different forms. Meme culture participants perform four different types of engagement: original …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… illustrate the otherwise invisible past. As new media technologies expanded the mass production of images during the nineteenth century, representing earlier time as visible helped novelists to affirm its reality, power, and difference from the present. Distinguishing between the past (prior …
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(Re)presenting Human Population Database Projects: virtually designing and siting biomedical informatics ventures
… stages of development. The websites, which are media technologies do not simply reflect and promote these endeavors. Rather, they help shape these database projects in which the science is uncertain and the technologies not yet built. Thus, they are constitutive technologies that affect the …
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