Descripción del título
(Dis)Orienting Media and Na...
(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means finding your way with the help of as well as within media, which in turn creates new virtual realms of (dis)orientation. This book deals with recent media technologies and structures (navigation devices, databases, transmediality) and unconventional narrative patterns (narrative complexity, plot twists, non-linearity), using the ambivalent concept of (dis)orientation as a shared focus to analyse various phenomena of contemporary media, thereby raising overarching questions about current mediascapes
Reviewed in: GMK-Newsletter, 1 (2013)
Monografía
monografia Rebiun30061889 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun30061889 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr -n--------- 220221s2014 gw o ||| 0 eng d 3-8394-2338-4 10.14361/transcript.9783839423387 doi UPVA 998797509803706 CBUC 991013159679606708 DE-B1597 eng DE-B1597 rda eng gw DE SOC052000 bisacsh 306.3 (Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes Julia Eckel, Bernd Leiendecker, Daniela Olek, Christine Piepiorka 1st ed Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014 Bielefeld Bielefeld transcript Verlag 1 online resource (321 p.) 1 online resource (321 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Kultur- und Medientheorie Description based upon print version of record 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 9 (Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes 11 The Medium is the Method 21 The Booth as an "Other Space" 35 Lost in Digitalisation? 55 (Dis)Orienting Memory 73 Go Play Outside! 93 Captivating Screens 111 TV for the Post-TV Generation? 129 Re-orienting Romantic Comedy 145 Serial Orientations 165 You're Supposed to Be Confused! 183 Amazing Maze 205 Ants, Games, Brains 221 Navigation in Complex Films 237 Leaving the Narrative Maze 257 Twisted Times 275 When the Past Lies Ahead and the Future Lags Behind 293 About the Authors 314 (Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means finding your way with the help of as well as within media, which in turn creates new virtual realms of (dis)orientation. This book deals with recent media technologies and structures (navigation devices, databases, transmediality) and unconventional narrative patterns (narrative complexity, plot twists, non-linearity), using the ambivalent concept of (dis)orientation as a shared focus to analyse various phenomena of contemporary media, thereby raising overarching questions about current mediascapes Reviewed in: GMK-Newsletter, 1 (2013) 1\u Julia Eckel is research assistant at the Department of Media Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and scientific coordinator of the DFG research training group 'Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation'. Her main research interests are audiovisuality and individuality, animation and documentation, as well as complex temporalities in audiovisual media 2\u Bernd Leiendecker (M.A.) is working on his PhD-thesis on the history of unreliable narration in film. His research interests are narratology and the relationship between sports and media 3\u Daniela Olek (M.A.) is working as a support specialist for an IT-corporation. Her research interests are contemporary media narratology and visual communication 4\u Christine Piepiorka (Dipl./M.A.) writes a PhD-thesis about televisual complex narrations and resulting viewer concepts. Her further research interest is the spatial construction of serial environment English Disorientation/Orientation; Digital Media; Narrative Complexity; Navigation; Audiovisual Storytelling; Media; Internet; Space; Sociology of Media; Social Media; Media Studies 1\u Eckel, Julia editor. edt 2\u Leiendecker, Bernd editor. edt 3\u Olek, Daniela editor. edt 4\u Piepiorka, Christine editor. edt 3-8376-2338-6 1-306-99697-X Cultural and media studies