This paper discusses the challenges of preserving art in the digital context. It provides an overview of the broader digital preservation challenge, and then considers new media art within that context. Through several case studies, it illustrates and discusses problems, issues and proposed solutions to digital art preservation. We will see that while work has been done towards digital preserva...

Compared to pop music, the audience of classical music has decreased dramatically. Reasons might be the way of communication between classic music and its audience that depends on vocal expression such as timbre, rhythm and melody in the performance. The fine details of classic music as well its implied emotion among the notes become implicit to the audience. Thus, we apply a new media called d...

Introduction What is new about new media? Its development and use is more influenced by economic factors than the old media. And the new media is more central to the new economy. Indeed, an ever more popular theme in the scientific literature, government policy documents and the popular press, is that technologically advanced economies are in the process of moving beyond industrial capitalism t...

This paper considers how emergency response organizations utilize available social media technologies to communicate with the public in emergencies and to potentially collect valuable information using the public as sources of information on the ground. The authors discuss the use of public social media tools from the emergency management professional’s viewpoint with a particular focus on the ...

This chapter gives an exploratory overview of the emergence and growth of new media in Uganda and how the alternative nature of new media is scaffolding the notion of citizenship and deliberative democracy. The chapter also suggests that despite the new found vigour, it is too early to say whether the Ugandan new media landscape have so far become a true alternative or complementary participato...

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Through experiences with developing technologies available on the Internet, in video games, and in new media entertainment, many of our students’ social and intellectual experiences utilize digital media in some fashion. The ever increasing accessibility of sophisticated media tools suggests that such enabling technologies could be ubiquitous in our classrooms and might soon serve as a foundati...