Life as an Endless Gig: How Platforms Turn Us into Performers

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This is an author interview with Slavko Splichal, the author of The Gig Public Q: ‘The Gig Public’ is an unusual title. Some might say it sounds more like a book about precarious work than about public life. Why insist on the word ‘gig’? A: That tension is exactly the...

When it comes to songs, there’s more than meets the ear

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This is a guest post by Glenn Fosbraey, author of Reading Song Lyrics: An Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Approach In today’s world, where streaming services allow us instant access to pretty much every song ever recorded, I like to keep certain ‘hard copy’ traditions alive. One of these, which stretches back...

The gothic western on screen

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This is an author interview by Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, authors of The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic and the Western Film Q1. What was the importance of writing this book now? The Western has always been cyclical in terms of its popularity and the ways that...

Visualising climate change effects on urban and rural habitat in African cinema and urbanism

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This is a guest post by Marie-Paule Macdonald, author of African Cinema and Urbanism. The African continent, estimated to contribute less than 3% to global emissions while experiencing fast-increasing population growth and corresponding urbanisation, faces the effects of climate change on human habitats. Its youthful population holds the potential to...

Why do we choose VR for art when AI has ‘won’ the Nobel Prize?

15 November 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Xinyang Zhao, author of Digital Immersive Art in China The year 2024 has not been the dawn of artificial intelligence (AI), but it is already a year of great acclaim for it. This year, all three Nobel Prizes in the sciences – Physiology or...

The U.S. Military in discourse: media and messaging in the American Empire

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This is an interview by Dr. Luke Peterson, author of The U.S. Military in the Print News Media: Service and Sacrifice in Contemporary Discourse Q1. Describe the scope and content of The U.S. Military in the Print News Media: Service and Sacrifice in Discourse. Answer: My most recent book, The...

Entering an immersive world of news

2 June 2024 Author Interviews

This is an interview by John V. Pavlik, author of Journalism and the Metaverse Q1. What exactly is the Metaverse? Answer: There is no single, agreed-upon definition of the Metaverse. Nor is there agreement about how it will be designed and built (Takahashi, 2022; Green & Works, 2022). However, one...

Tag: Media and Communication Studies

Life as an Endless Gig: How Platforms Turn Us into Performers

When it comes to songs, there’s more than meets the ear

The gothic western on screen

Visualising climate change effects on urban and rural habitat in African cinema and urbanism

Why do we choose VR for art when AI has ‘won’ the Nobel Prize?

The U.S. Military in discourse: media and messaging in the American Empire

Entering an immersive world of news

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