"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen
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ging circumstances, the interdisciplinary approach ensures a careful, nuanced, multi-dimensional exploration of children's relationships with digital media. Featuring a highly international range of case studies, perspectives, and socio-cultural contexts, The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children is the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of media and communication, family and technology studies, psychology, education, anthropology, and sociology, as well as interested teachers, policy makers, and parents." (Publisher description)
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"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital
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and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area. The Features include: "a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology, exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations, consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale and in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives." (Publisher description)
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"In ihrem Ratgeber „Digitales Filmemachen“ zeigen die Produzenten und Regisseure Dale Newton und John Gaspard angehenden Filmemacher/inn/en, wie sie digitalen Möglichkeiten richtig nutzen, wi
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e man bereits beim Schreiben des Skripts darauf achtet, dass die Kosten nicht aus dem Ruder laufen, wieddas Budget verlässlich kalkuliert wird, wo es das nötige Equipment gibt, wie das Team zusammengestellt, die Drehtage vorbereitet, der Dreh organisiert wird und am Computer Spezialeffekte generiert werden, die im fertigen Film spektakulär aussehen, aber in den Bilanzen eher unscheinbar bleiben. „Das beste Buch über digitales Filmemachen“, resümierte Screentalk Magazine. „Wenn es darum geht, Digitalfilme billig zu produzieren, kennen diese Typen wirklich keine Hemmungen - ein hilfreiches und sehr humorvolles Handbuch für Anfänger und Profis gleichermaßen“, lobt Oscar-Preisträger und Regisseur Jonathan Demme („Das Schweigen der Lämmer“)." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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