The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships. This international Handbook addresses the mos…
This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is organized and amplified around common buzzwords. This method enables us to navigate more easily the huge volume of online uttera…
Perkembangan di bidang TIK (Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi) saat ini sangat pesat dan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap pribadi maupun komunitas, segala aktivitas, kehidupan, cara kerja, metode perkuliahan, gaya hidup maupun cara berpikir. Adapun jenis-jenis TIK yang kita kenal selama ini adalah radio; televisi; telepon (fixed dan mobile); faksimile; electronic recording (audio dan video); ko…
Buku "Rekayasa Multimedia" memberikan wawasan menyeluruh tentang prinsip dasar, teknologi, dan aplikasi multimedia. Pembaca dipandu untuk memahami elemen-elemen multimedia seperti pengolahan teks, citra, audio, dan video, hingga produk multimedia seperti animasi, game, augmented reality, dan virtual reality. Buku ini juga membahas metode pengembangan aplikasi multimedia, pemrograman game, desai…
Digital Religion: The Basics explores how digital media and internet platforms are transforming religious practice in a digital age and the impact this has had on religious culture in contemporary society. Through exploring six defining characteristics of how religion is acted out online, including multisite reality, convergence practice, networked community, storied identity, shifting autho…
This book aims to identify how the Qur’an is narrated in and by the press media through the use of translation, featuring examples from a corpus of newspaper articles from the UK and Europe across two decades. Drawing on work at the intersection of narrative theory and translation studies, the volume highlights the ways in which press media play an integral role in the construction, promot…
Digital tools have a clear educational purpose, but how do we help students with the darker corners of the web? This book provides timely, much-needed advice for educators on how to teach students to handle the anger and divisiveness that pervades social media and that is impossible to ignore when using tech for other purposes. Author Andrew Marcinek provides strategies we can use to help st…