Art and computer science have been in contact since the sixties. In 1970, Sakky Yeates Sedelow in her visionary paper [15] summarizes and elaborates the requirements that humanities and fine arts pose on computer research and vice versa. Knuth in his award lecture, when he received the ACM Turing Award in 1974, addressed the topic of Computer Programming as an Art. In that lecture, Knuth provid...

This paper considers how emergency response organizations utilize available social media technologies to communicate with the public in emergencies and to potentially collect valuable information using the public as sources of information on the ground. The authors discuss the use of public social media tools from the emergency management professional’s viewpoint with a particular focus on the ...

This chapter gives an exploratory overview of the emergence and growth of new media in Uganda and how the alternative nature of new media is scaffolding the notion of citizenship and deliberative democracy. The chapter also suggests that despite the new found vigour, it is too early to say whether the Ugandan new media landscape have so far become a true alternative or complementary participato...

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Through experiences with developing technologies available on the Internet, in video games, and in new media entertainment, many of our students’ social and intellectual experiences utilize digital media in some fashion. The ever increasing accessibility of sophisticated media tools suggests that such enabling technologies could be ubiquitous in our classrooms and might soon serve as a foundati...

The mass media in Malaysia has been encouraged to work with the government in mobilizing the people towards achieving national development objectives. Apart from the role that has been played by the traditional media, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now the focus to lead Malaysia in the new era of globalization and knowledge and consequently development. Development policies a...

Drawing from the literature in Intercultural and New Media Studies (INMS), this study explores the SlutWalk social movement, a transnational movement of protest marches. The author conducted interviews with seven SlutWalk organizers from various cities in the United States to understand what culture SlutWalk organizers are fostering through their work and the role of new media communication in ...

Appreciation is expressed to Editor Venky Shankar and two anonymous referees for useful comments. Abstract In the early part of the 21st century, the media landscape has been dramatically affected by the introduction of new, largely digital media. This increase in the number of media has been driven largely by improvements in technology and how customers interact with the technology and each ot...

This paper investigates the culture being reflected in video games being produced in Canada as Canada is one of the world's leading producers of video games. It examines the how Canadian culture is represented in current new media artistic output against the culture, or lack of culture, being represented in video games currently being produced. With the shift of television viewers away from cul...

In the Spring of 2010, ACUTA conducted a survey of its institutional members regarding their institutions’ use of social networking sites. This literature review was compiled in conjunction with the survey research. The first section describes resources that were recommended by ACUTA members who serve either on the ACUTA Higher Education Advisory Panel or the ACUTA Social Networking, New Media...