Digital Kanthas: Print waste as ornament

The Ambivalence of Ornament: Silhouette Advertisements in Print and Film in Early TwentiethCentury Germany

Introduction In his infl uential account of the genealogy of new media, Lev Manovich has taught us to understand the age of digital cinema, at least in part, as a rehabilitation of traditions of animation that once stood at the forefront of moving image spectacles before the consolidation of narrative cinema. Although long marginalized as fi lm’s ‘bastard relative’, a children’s art of the ‘gra...

Text Editing, Print and the Digital World

Information Behaviors of Children and Adolescents’ Interaction with Print and Digital Books

Background and Aim: This research is dedicated to assessing information behaviors of children and adolescents’ interaction with print and digital books. To reach this goal, digital books of Iranian virtual library for children and teenagers, have been used as sources of research. The purpose is assessing the influence of participants’ gender, age and graphical effects of books, with their prefe...

To print or not to print (digitally)? Innovative digital printing characteristics and their degree of penetration in print media markets

Digital printing systems are widely established in traditional as well as in newer companies oriented toward print media production and publishing. The establishment and the operation of digital printing systems within these companies is undertaken with the aims of entering new markets, gaining new customers and increasing profit. In particular, innovative digital printing characteristics such ...

Analyzing User Behavior in Digital Games [PRE-PRINT]

User research in digital game development has in recent years begun to expand from a previous existence on the sideline of development, to a central factor in game production, in recognition that the interaction between user and game is crucial to the perceived user experience. Paralleling this development, the methods and tools available for conducting user research in the industry and academi...