Books exist within a connected media ecosystem, but few consumer behavior and experience studies capture the relationships between books other forms. In Immersive Media & 2020, Drs. Rachel Noorda Kathi Inman Berens from Portland State University explore crossmedia for books, video games, TV/movies—capturing behaviors both before during COVID-19. The highlights of report are highly distributed w...

The undead have infected numerous media forms recently, including prime-time television (The Walking Dead), videogames (Dead Island, Left 4 Dead), comic books (Chaos Campus, Marvel Zombies), classic literature (Pride, Prejudice and Zombies), and stage musicals (Fleshed Out, Musical of the Living Dead). It is ironic that the living dead should be so persistently profitable given that zombies hav...

This paper proposes a system for users of “general paper media (newspaper, books, publications, etc.)” using recognition of written cues (made by handwritten entries) and performing digital processing. Users are able to use this system by a smartphone and on paper-media to save a favorite paragraph or image on the paper, illustrate data associations, and search for English translations, all the...

This paper outlines and describes the development of a multi-media data aggregation system called Placebooks. Placebooks was developed as a ubiquitous toolkit aimed at allowing people in rural areas to create and share digital books that contained a variety of media, such as: maps; text; videos; audio and images. Placebooks consists of two parts: 1) a web-based editor and viewer, and 2) an Andr...

The aim of this study is to do a research on the effects of e-learning and sub-categories such as :internet ;Web-based English learning and computer-assisted language learning(CALL)on language learning .Before growing prevalence of Word Wide Web (www);people use emails for language learning and teaching (LL/LT).In network-based language learning (NBLL);people use computer-based educational acti...

Introduction Scholarly publishing in books and journals, like lecture series, workshops and conferences, are forums for scholarly communications whose character can be influenced by the media of communication. With each electronic invention, many scholars hope that new media can expand authors' or speakers' abilities to reach new audiences. They hope that listeners or readers will hear new voic...

The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social scie...