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Current Screens
Abstract
As mobile communication, social media, wireless networks, and flexible user interfaces become prominent topics in the study of media and culture, the screen emerges as a critical research area. This reader brings together insightful and influential texts from a variety of sources–theorists, researchers, critics, inventors, and artists–that explore the screen as a fundamental element not only in popular culture but also in our very understanding of society and the world.
The Screen Media Reader is a foundational resource for studying the screen and its cultural impact. Through key contemporary and historical texts addressing the screen’s development and role in communications and the social sphere, it considers how the screen functions as an idea, an object, and an everyday experience. Reflecting a number of descriptive and analytical approaches, these essays illustrate the astonishing range and depth of the screen’s introduction and application in multiple media configurations and contexts. Together they demonstrate the long-standing influence of the screen as a cultural concept and communication tool that extends well beyond contemporary debates over screen saturation and addiction.
Despite the infusion of screen technologies, we hardly notice their properties as we commonly interact with them. Encounters with visual driven-networks occur through the screens orienting consumers toward visual data and information. Through physical interactions with the object and its surface, images move fastly. More than any contemporary object, screens have facilitated the proliferation of customized visual information. As the potential adaptability of screens as technology expands, the screen is evolving into new directions and applications in capturing consumers’ attention in the most attractive ways. Taking in account the current trends in which smartphones and tablets are at the forefront of marketing innovation and commercial applications, this paper aims to establish a conceptual relationship between smartphones screens affordances and the consumption of images. Based on the literature review, a theoretical framework and insights for future research on the topic of consumer behavior in screen culture are proposed.
Following current literature on public and mobile screens, this paper discuses the relevance that screens have in our everyday lives by focusing on the combination of mobile and temporary screen-based practices in the digital mediation of a single public commemorative event. We present an ethnographic account of different screen practices at the Anzac Day dawn Service, an annual Australian commemorative ceremony on a public holiday, 25 April. By focusing our analysis in a single place for a limited time, we analyse how people relate to screens in different ways, from media reception to spatial organization to online connection. We suggest that screens form a fundamental element of the entanglement between public space and political narrative that needs further investigation because this relationship holds implications for both urban life and citizenship.
Communication systems are now converging, but communication policy has evolved to treat different media differently. Most solutions for a post-convergence communication policy are adjustments to inherited regulatory categories. Instead, this article revisits the underlying goals of policy-making across all media. First, the article presents a conceptual model for the communication policy process as one of inertia punctuated by crisis. Second, it applies this model to a very brief history of policy in the US, considering print, post, telephony, broadcasting and the internet. Third, from this analysis it suggests useful approaches in a converged environment, distinguishing three underlying goals for policy: the right to public dissemination, the right to private exchange and the right to design communication platforms.
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This paper addresses the specific technical qualities of Flash Video and its underlying codec. It suggests that the current divergence of high and low resolution media is indicative of a change in the nature of mediated social structures. It suggests that low-resolution media may have a greater utopian dimension, albeit still a very depleted one, than high-definition media
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