State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction and Background

   • Rae Earnshaw

   Pages 1-7

3. Key Historical Visions for the Future of Computing and Digital Media

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   Pages 9-20

4. Collaboration on Digital Media

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   Pages 21-28

5. Digital Imaging

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   Pages 29-44

6. Digital Libraries

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   Pages 45-52

7. Applications of Digital Media

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   Pages 53-63

8. Social Media and Cultural Implications

   • Rae Earnshaw

   Pages 65-73

9. The Future

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   Pages 75-82

10. Back Matter

    Pages 83-86

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This book presents the user-facing aspects of digital media, from the web and computer games, to mobile technologies and social media, and demonstrates how these are continuously growing and developing. The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is bringing about a revolution in the way information is collected, stored, accessed and distributed. Rae Earnshaw's book explores the principal factors driving this and the ways in which social and cultural contexts are affected by media content. 

This is Professor Earnshaw's fourth book in a series that focuses on digital media and creativity, and through the use of Case Studies; the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of digital media are examined. Readers are informed about how the user as content creator, publisher and broadcaster is changing the traditional roles of news media, publishers and entertainment corporations. Topics such as the evolution of digital imaging and the phenomenon of socialmedia are discussed in relation to this. Professor Earnshaw also demonstrates how changes in technology produce shifts in the ways that consumers utilize it, in an increasing variety of application domains such as e-books, digital cameras, Facebook and Twitter.


State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications will be invaluable for readers that want a comprehensive look at how emerging digital media technologies are being used, and how they are transforming how we create, consume, exchange and manipulate media content. 

• Digital Convergence
• New Media
• Content Creation
• Information Repositories
• Digital Art

• Centre for Visual Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

  Rae Earnshaw

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