Exploring the dynamics of public and personal communication on various social media platforms, this book delves into how these interactions shape users' daily experiences. By examining popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and WeChat, it highlights the significant effects of social media on personal relationships and societal norms, making it a timely and relevant read for understanding modern communication.
Serial Drawing offers a timely and rigorous exploration of a relatively little-researched art form. Serial drawings – artworks that are presented as singular works but are made up of distributed parts – are studied in fresh, contemporary terms with a novel philosophical approach, emphasizing both the way in which this unique form of visual art exists in the world, and how it is encountered by the beholder. Inspired by the quadruple framework of Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology, Joe Graham explores a variety of serial drawings according to the idea that, in being serially arrayed, such artworks constitute a rather particular form of art object: one which is both unified yet pluralised, visible yet withdrawn. Examining works by artists such as Alexei Jawlensky, Ellsworth Kelly, Hanne Darboven, Jill Baroff and Stefana McClure, Graham interrogates the manner in which serial drawings are able to be appreciated by the viewer who beholds them in object-oriented terms. This task is carried out by paying attention to the manner in which three tensions – space, time and seriality –emerge for consideration within the beholders performative encounter with the work: an encounter which is 'seen serially', and which the medium of drawing specifically directs their attention towards.
What happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of Donald Trump, Scarlett Johansson or yourself, and they can generate a convincing video in which that person appears to say and do things they have never actually said or done. The result is a media environment in which anyone's face and image can be remixed and manipulated. Graham Meikle explains how deepfakes are made and how they are used. From celebrity porn, political satire, and reanimating dead artists to movie mashups, alternative histories and disinformation campaigns, this book explores themes of trust and consent as face-swapping software becomes more common. Meikle argues that deepfake videos allow for a new perspective on the taken-for-granted nature of contemporary media, in which our capacity to remix and share increasingly conflicts with our capacity to trust. The book analyses how such videos deepen the social media environment in which the public and the personal converge, and in which all human experience becomes content to be shared. Timely, clear, and accessibly written, this is essential reading for students and scholars of Media, Communication, Cultural Studies and Sociology, and will be of interest to anyone who wants to better understand contemporary digital media.
A discussion of an overarching theme of C. S. Lewis' writings; the incarnational reality of Christ in everyday life.
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What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement.
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Exploring the dual nature of social media, the book delves into how these platforms foster creativity, empathy, and connection while simultaneously acting as surveillance systems that lead users to unwittingly participate in their own commercial exploitation. Graham Meikle offers an accessible analysis of the inherent tensions within social media, highlighting the complexities of user experience in today's digital landscape.