Dec 29, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Older Media, Volume 21
The way that a narrative unravels has traditionally been understood to occur over time: the time that it takes to read words on a page and to process meaning, and the time frame of events as depicted in the narrative. As we increasingly encounter electronic...
Dec 28, 2012 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Contents Page Only, Volume 21
Special Issue: Digital Cartography: Screening Space edited by Wendy Haslem & Athena Bellas 1. Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky – Katheryn Wright 2. I See You: the Posthuman Subject and Spaces of Virtuality – Rebecca Bishop...
Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Urban Space, Volume 21
Abstract: As the contemporary city becomes a site of complex negotiations between technology and people, the ubiquity of digital maps is disrupting traditional spatial paradigms. Here, the texts of the urban imagination are becoming increasingly geo-coded, changing...
Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 21
Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron’s Avatar, 2009) Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman – a vision...
Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Music, Sound, Volume 21
Abstract: During the Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, Trent Reznor made use of two semi-transparent stealth screens layered in front of a third screen through which the band performed the second and third acts of the show. A stealth screen is made from...
