Keywords:
Digital media
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Structure of the Work -- Chapter 1 - Rethinking Interactive Practices as Cultural Artifacts -- 1.1 The Importance of Context -- 1.2 Interactive Practices as Cultural Artifacts. How to Examine Context -- 1.3 Urgent (Inter)action. Contributing to the Study of Interactive Practices about Migration -- 1.4 Scholarship on Interactive Documentaries and New Documentary Ecologies -- 1.5 The Corpus of Interactive Practices about Migration: Viewing from Within and Viewing from Above -- 1.6 Software Studies and the Challenge of Preserving Interactives -- 1.7 Why do Interactive Practices about Migration Matter? -- Chapter 2 - (Digital) Outcast -- 2.1 The Economics of Interactive Practices -- 2.2 When the New Gets Old -- 2.3 Update or Die: Format Wars -- 2.4 Regimes of Obsolescence -- 2.5 Preservation Strategies for Interactives: The Sound and Vision Institute and the National Film Board of Canada -- 2.6 Ephemeral, Displaced, Re-Usable. The Future of Interactive Archives -- Chapter 3 - A View from Within -- 3.1 Simulating Border Crossings -- 3.2 Rules of the Game -- 3.3 Verfremdungseffekt -- 3.4 Freedom of Choice. Text-Adventures and "Regimes of Circulation" -- 3.5 Witnessing Refugee Camps -- 3.6 Viewing from Within: Simulating Vulnerability, Simulating Borders -- Chapter 4 - A View from Above -- 4.1 The Visual Display of Migration -- 4.2 Humanitarian Mapping: Data Storytelling with Tableau -- 4.3 Humanitarian Mapping: Mapping Data with Story Maps -- 4.4 Scaling, Simplifying, Governmentalizing. Viewing from Above -- Chapter 5 - The Promise of Humanitarianism -- 5.1 Call for (Inter)action -- 5.2 Media for Change -- 5.3 Ironic Spectators -- 5.4 From Pity to Irony, to an Ethic of Empathy? -- 5.5 Humanitarianism in Perspective: the "Emergency Imaginary" in Interactive Maps.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839460399
Series Statement:
Edition Medienwissenschaft
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6992616
DDC:
025.84
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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