Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Broadband Internet: Future Applications and Challenges

      • Steve Molyneux

      Pages 3-12

   3. The Future of Content: Towards a 5th Framework Programme in Multimedia Content & Tools

      • Kieran O'Hea

      Pages 13-25

3. Cultural Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Digital Convergence at the User Interface

      • David Leevers

      Pages 29-46

   3. Cultural Objects in Digital Convergence

      • Marc Cavazza

      Pages 47-55

   4. The Role of 3D Shared Worlds in Support of Chance Encounters in CSCW

      • Avon Huxor

      Pages 56-72

   5. Agent-Based Facial Animation

      • Ali Al-Qayedi, Adrian F. Clark

      Pages 73-88

   6. The Use of Dynamic Behaviors in a Network-Based Animation System

      • W. Tang, A. Osman, I. Palmer

      Pages 89-100

   7. Virtual Rehearsal Over Networks

      • Carlton Reeve, Ian Palmer

      Pages 101-115

   8. WWW Television News in Context: Organizational Practices and Media Products

      • Simeon J. Yates, Jane L. Perrone

      Pages 116-131

   9. Live Internet Broadcasting: Some Unique Experiences

      • D. R. Lawrence, A. Sloane, D. E. Price, G. Constable

      Pages 132-143

   10. Jogging the Memory: Dynamic Visualization Over the Web

       • Jeremy Walton

       Pages 144-158

   11. “Thin” vs. “Fat” Visualization Clients

       • Mikael Jern

       Pages 159-173

   12. How to Build a Pan-European Multilingual Information Distribution System

       • James A. Malcolm, Jill A. Hewitt

       Pages 174-186

4. Technological Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. A Distributed Object-Based Architecture for Remote Rendering on the WWW

      • M. D. J. McNeill

      Pages 189-205

   3. Multi-User Visualization: a CORBA/Web-Based Approach

      • Bastiaan Schönhage, Anton Eliëns

      Pages 206-219

   4. Scene Capture and Modeling for Three-Dimensional Interactive Stereo Television Broadcasting

      • A. L. Thomas

      Pages 220-253

Although the computer's life has been relatively short, it has brought about an information revolution that is transforming our world on a scale that is still difficult to comprehend. This digital convergence is shaping society, technology and the media for the next millennium. Areas as diverse as home banking and shopping over the Internet; WWW access over mobile phone networks; and television systems such as Web TV which combine on-line services with television. But convergence is not just about technology. It is also about services and new ways of doing business and of interacting with society. Digital convergence heralds the 'Information Revolution'. Edited by John Vince and Rae Earnshaw this important new book on Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution is an edited volume of papers, bringing together state-of-the-art developments in the Internet and World Wide Web and should be compulsory reading for all those interested in and working in those areas.

• Broadcast
• Computer
• Internet
• Multimedia
• Roadcasting
• Segment
• WWW
• modeling
• visualization

• School of Media, Arts and Communication, University of Bournemouth, Poole, UK

  John Vince

• University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

  Rae Earnshaw

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