A digital Janus : : looking forward, looking back / / edited by Dennis Moser and Susan Dun.

• TeilnehmendeR: Moser, Dennis,; Dun, Susan, ca. 21. Jh,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Cyberculture and cyberspace have become part of our realities. This is an inescapable fact. Their digital technologies have come to underpin many aspects of our lives, our history, and our future. Already, these technologies exert considerable influence upon the institutions and structure of our societies, including those that define our concepts of art and aesthetics, our social interactions, societal and individual remembrance, even how we govern and are governed. Cyberculture’s ubiquity raises questions of our concepts of being and aloneness. Can we experience solitude if we are all connected? Will the natural state of being soon be ‘always on, always connected?’ To remember everything, is it a blessing or a curse? Is the promise of digital ‘immortality’ possible or even desirable? When do we cease mourning, if the dead are memorialized in digital perpetuity? Within this volume is a collection of essays from an international group of scholars, artists, and practitioners who address these and other questions about our future, looking at where we have come in our past.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Dennis Moser and Susan Dun -- The Virtual Leash: Connected at Every Intersection / Teigan Kollosche -- The Digital Lives of the Dead: YouTube as a Practice of Cybermourning / Margaret Gibson and Marga Altena -- The Arpeggio of Fragmentation: Music Bricolage in the Tracker Scene / Alberto José Viralhadas Ferreira -- 24 People Do Not Like the Horse Dance: YouTube as Community? / Kyong James Cho -- Virtual Communities and Identity Reconfiguration / Elena-Alis Costescu -- ‘Memories Are Just Dead Men Makin’ Trouble’: Digital Objects, Digital Memory, Digital History / Dennis Moser -- Encoding through Digital Memory and Our Remembrances / Segah Sak -- The Member’s a Virtual Gentleman / Patrick McEntaggart and Paul Wilson -- HyperScreens: The Presentation of Audiovisual Cultural Heritage through Interactive Media Platforms / Asen O. Ivanov -- Interface: The Actual Story / Funda Şenova Tunalı -- The Virtualisation of Architecture in the Digital Era / Vassilis Papalexopoulos and Artemis Psaltoglou -- Still a Long Way to Go: Media Branding in Social Network Sites / Sabine Baumann and Ulrike Rohn -- From Trolling for Newbs to Trolling for Cheezburger: An Analysis of the Transformation of Trolling / Catherine van Reenen -- Crowdfunded Film Campaigns: Drivers of Success / Jake Hobbs -- Big Data and Governance / Maude Bonenfant , Marc Ménard , André Mondoux and Maxime Ouellet -- Is Political Participation Online Effective? A Case Study of the Brazilian Federal Chamber of Representatives’ E-Democracy Initiative / Patrícia Gonçalves C. Rossini -- The Apparatus of Mobility and the Restriction from Cyberspace / Harris Breslow and Ilhem Allagui -- Cyber-Popular Pressure Can Improve Society / Miquel Rubio Domínguez -- Filthy Lucre and Test Audiences: Fan Debates about Publishing Fan Fiction / Jennifer Roth and Monica Flegel -- Digital Literacy in Arabic Speakers: The Role of Bilingualism in Effective Use of Web Resources / Susan Dun and Dina Mutassem -- New Media Documentary: Playing with Documentary Film within the Database Logic and Culture / Ersan Ocak -- Visit(s) to the Museum: Visitors and Official Information Available on the Web / Olga Cristina Sousa and Abílio Oliveira.