Sameness and repetition in contemporary media culture / / Susana Tosca.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algorithm...

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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Definitions: Repetition, sameness, cognition and learning
  • Chapter 2. Learning to love your stone: The aesthetics and experience of computer games
  • Chapter 3. Sing, goddess, of the anger of achilles: Formal repetition in storytelling
  • Chapter 4. Many happy returns: Sameness in digital literature, narrative games, adaptations and transmedial worlds
  • Chapter 5. If you like that, you will love this: On sameness based algorithmic recommendation systems
  • Chapter 6. Good artists copy, great artists steal: Creativity and originality in a new media landscape
  • Chapter 7. In praise and criticism of repetition: The cultural affordances of repetitive media formats.