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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/biography"  title="biography">biography</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/innovation"  title="innovation">innovation</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/learning"  title="learning">learning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/apple"  title="apple">apple</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/Wozniak"  title="Wozniak">Wozniak</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-1907720-10294146" target="_blank" >
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/digital"  title="digital">digital</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/ipod"  title="ipod">ipod</a>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:07:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_43546_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>digital</category><category>ipod</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Media Semiotics]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[This is an expanded and revised edition of an investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. The main media studied on university courses (advertising, magazines, the press, TV, cinema, &quot;new media&quot; including computer games, the Internet and the World Wide ) are all addressed substantially and in separate detailed chapters. New material in this second edition includes sections on men&#39;s style magazines, docusoaps and &quot;reality TV&quot;, digital interactive television, and mobile phone text messaging. It begins by explaining the concept of the sign and the ideological roles of media in contemporary culture and then scrutinises advertisements, glossy magazines, daily newspapers, TV programmes, recent films, and interactive media, with each chapter containing close analyses of particular examples. Key strands in critical theory such as ideology and psychanalytic theory are explored and challenges to established semiotic methods posed by audience studies and postmodernism are discussed. <br />
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/postmodernism"  title="postmodernism">postmodernism</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:13:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22234_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>semiotics</category><category>postmodernism</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barthes]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the &#39;incomparable enlivener of the literary mind&#39;, whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a &#39;science of literature&#39;, and the most prominent promoter of semiology; and to others, he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising, to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/literary"  title="literary">literary</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/structuralism"  title="structuralism">structuralism</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/Barthes"  title="Barthes">Barthes</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:09:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22231_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>literary</category><category>culture</category><category>semiotics</category><category>structuralism</category><category>Barthes</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saussure]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiology"  title="semiology">semiology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/Saussure"  title="Saussure">Saussure</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:08:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22230_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>semiotics</category><category>semiology</category><category>Saussure</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Language of New Media]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Offering a theory of new media, this book places the recent developments within the history of visual culture of the last few centuries. The reliance on old conventions as well as ideas unique to new media are explored, with particular emphasis on the role of the cinema. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/media"  title="media">media</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/language"  title="language">language</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/semiotics"  title="semiotics">semiotics</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:57:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22224_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>culture</category><category>media</category><category>language</category><category>semiotics</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth Media]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Bill Osgerby&#39;s innovative introduction traces the development of contemporary youth culture and its relationship with the media, from the days of diners, drive-ins and jukeboxes, to today&#39;s world of iPods and the Internet, examining youth media in its economic, cultural and political contexts. Youth Media explores: youth culture and the media the &#39;Fab Phenomenon&#39;: markets, money and media generation and degeneration in the media: representations, responses and &#39;effects&#39; media, subculture and lifestyle global media, youth culture and identity youth and new media. <br />
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:53:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22222_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/literacy"  title="literacy">literacy</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/representation"  title="representation">representation</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:48:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_12454_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>meaning</category><category>literacy</category><category>representation</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Culture]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[During the last 20 years digital technology has begun to touch upon almost every aspect of our lives. Most forms of mass media, television, recorded music and film are produced and even distributed digitally. These media are beginning to converge with digital forms, such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and video games, to produce a seamless digital mediascape. At work we are now surrounded by technology, whether in offices or in supermarkets and factories, where almost every aspect of planning, design, marketing, production and distribution is monitored or controlled digitally. In &quot;Digital Culture&quot;, Charlie Gere articulates the degree to which our everyday lives are becoming dominated by digital technology, whether in terms of leisure, work or bureaucracy. This dominance of digital technology is reflected in other areas, including the worlds of finance, technology, scientific research, media and telecommunications. Out of this situation a particular set of cultural responses has emerged, for example, in art, music, design, film, literature and elsewhere. This book offers a new perspective on digital culture, by examining its development and showing that, despite appearances, it is neither radically new, nor ultimately technologically driven. The author trace its roots to the late 18th century, and shows how it sprang from a number of impulses, including the informational needs of industrial capitalism and contemporary warfare, avant-garde artistic practice, counter-cultural experimentation, radical philosophy and sub-cultural style. It is these conditions that produced both digital technology and digital culture and that determined how they have developed.
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:46:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22220_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Digital Culture]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field&#39;s most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range across issues that are central to digital life and culture: knowledge production, cyber-identity, computer art, online community, Internet commerce, and the effect of technology on work and leisure. With contributions from both inside and outside the technology field, Reading Digital Culture will be essential reading for anyone interested in - and living in the midst of - the digital revolution. 
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/knowledge"  title="knowledge">knowledge</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:45:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_22219_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>communication</category><category>knowledge</category><category>meaning</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/communication"  title="communication">communication</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:42:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_1102_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>communication</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Dormouse Said : How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry]]></title><link>http://reader2.com/bakuvia</link><description><![CDATA[
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by <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia">bakuvia</a><br/>Tags:  <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/technology"  title="technology">technology</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/culture"  title="culture">culture</a> <a href="http://reader2.com/bakuvia/meaning"  title="meaning">meaning</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:40:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">item_id_21908_3629</guid><dc:creator>bakuvia</dc:creator><category>technology</category><category>culture</category><category>meaning</category></item></channel></rss>
