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Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. John Vince

    1. School of Media, Arts and Communication, University of Bournemouth, Poole, UK

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  2. Rae Earnshaw

    1. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

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  • Edited volume of papers resulting from the International Conference on Digital Convergence: the Future of the Internet and World Wide Web, held in April 98 Brings together state-of-the-art developments in the Internet and WWW, and will be of great interest to those working in these areas

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  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
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    John Vince

  • University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    Rae Earnshaw

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