G.R. Little Library: Digital Media: Books

Selected E-Books

In this section, we've highlighted a selection of books curated. If you're unable to locate a specific book in our catalog or as an open-access resource, please don't hesitate to reach out to your librarians for assistance in acquiring it.

The Creative Artist's Legal Guide by Ellen Seiter; Bill Seiter
ISBN: 9780300161199
Publication Date: 2012-06-26
In today's complex media environment, aspiring filmmakers and new media artists are as vulnerable as swimmers in shark-infested waters. This user-friendly guide supplies creative artists with the essential legal concepts needed to swim safely with lawyers, agents, executives, and other experts in intellectual property and business lawHow do I copyright my screenplay? How can I clear rights for my film project? What can I do to avoid legal trouble when I produce my mockumentary? How do I ascertain whether a vintage novel is in the public domain? Is the trademark I've invented for my production company available? What about copyright and trademark rights overseas? If I upload my film to YouTube, do I give up any rights?
Music and Digital Media by Georgina Born (Editor)
ISBN: 9781800082458
Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Anthropology has neglected the study of music. Music and Digital Media shows how and why this should be redressed. It does so by enabling music to expand the horizons of digital anthropology, demonstrating how the field can build interdisciplinary links to music and sound studies, digital/media studies, and science and technology studies. Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital assume clamouring audibility.
Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory by Endia Turney (Contribution by); Mia Moody-Ramirez; Hazel James Cole; Elizabeth Fassih (Contribution by); Macarena Hernández (Contribution by); Tina Libhart (Contribution by); Mayra Monroy (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781498568616
Publication Date: 2018-11-08
Race, Gender and Image Restoration Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape explores themes that are relevant to the socio-political landscape of twenty-first-century America, including race and gender representation, social media and traditional media framing, and image restoration management. This book provides a comprehensive discussion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Image Restoration Theory (IRT) to establish a baseline for a conversation on celebrity image restoration tactics used on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as well as traditional media platforms. Case studies offer a broad overview of politics, sports and entertainment image management and restoration. Recommended for scholars interested in public relations, crisis management, Image Repair Theory (IRT), and representations of race and gender in mass media.
Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio; Lauren F. Klein
ISBN: 9780262044004
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.
Sound as Popular Culture: A Research Companion by Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Holger Schulze
ISBN: 9780262334273
Publication Date: 2016
The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way. From an infant's gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub-bass frequencies produced by sound systems in the disco era, sound—not necessarily aestheticized as music—is inextricably part of the many domains of popular culture. Expanding the view taken by many scholars of cultural studies, the contributors consider cultural practices concerning sound not merely as semiotic or signifying processes but as material, physical, perceptual, and sensory processes that integrate a multitude of cultural traditions and forms of knowledge.
Digital Media, Education and Culture by John Potter; Julian McDougall
ISBN: 9781137553140
Publication Date: 2017-05-10
This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings. The book presents research and thinking about new dynamic literacies, porous expertise, digital making/coding/remixing, curation, storying in digital media, open learning, the networked educator and a number of related topics; it further addresses and develops the notion of a ‘third space literacies'in contexts for learning. The book takes as its starting point the idea that an emphasis on technology and media, as part of material culture and lived experience, is much needed in the discussion of education, along with a criticality which is too often absent in the discourse around technology and learning. It constructs a narrative thread and a critical synthesis from a sociocultural account of the memes and stereotypical positions around learning, media and technology in the digital age, and will beof great interest to academics interested in the mechanics of learning and the effects of technology on the education experience. It closes with a conversation as a reflexive ‘afterword' featuring discussion of the key issues with, amongst others, Neil Selwyn and Cathy Burnett.

Media Subject Headings

In the library catalog, books, videos and other materials are assigned Library of Congress (LC) subject headings based on their content. Here is a sample list of film-related subject headings, some of which pertain equally to books and videos (visual materials). When you view catalog records in Library Search, these subject headings display as active links pointing to other items with the same subject.

This is not an exhaustive list of subject headings pertinent to media studies, but it should give you a sense of commonly used vocabulary and how subject headings are structured.

Sample Subject Headings

African American television producers and directors

African Americans in television broadcasting

African Americans on television

Computer literacy

Cyberspace--Social aspects

Digital divide

Digital media--Political aspects

Digital media--Social aspects

Gay men on television

Gays in popular culture (books with the subject "popular culture" frequently encompass mass media)

Homosexuality on television

Information society

Information technology--Social aspects

Internet--Social aspects

Internet and teenagers

Lesbianism on television

Mass media

Mass media--Audiences

Mass media--Political aspects

Mass media--Social aspects

Mass media and culture

Mass media and public opinion

Media literacy

Netflix (firm)

Press and propaganda

Reality television programs

Sex in mass media

Sex role in mass media

Sexual minorities on television

Social classes in mass media

Streaming video (Link searches books only.)

Technology and youth

Television advertising

Television advertising and children

Television authorship

Television broadcasting--Social aspects

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States

Television broadcasting--United States

Television broadcasting--United States--History

Television broadcasting of news--United States

Television--Production and direction

Television soap operas

Television soap operas--Latin America (use for telenovelas)

Television viewers--United States

Video games

Video games--Social aspects

Video games--History

Violence in mass media

Violence on television

Women on television

Women television producers and directors--United States