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Have you ever wondered what makes storytelling and digital media a powerful combination? This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The editors of this volume contend that digital storytelling and digital media can create spaces of empowerment and transformation by facilitating multiple kinds of border crossings and convergences involving groups of peoples, places, knowledge, methodologies, and teaching pedagogies.The book is unique in its inclusion of anthropologists and education practitioners and its emphasis on multiple subfields in anthropology.The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, and ethnographic research involving a variety of populations and subjects that will appeal to researchers and practitioners engaged with qualitative methods and pedagogies that rely on media technology.

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Besides being one of the countries most severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia also experienced a severe "infodemic": an overabundance of contradictory information--including misinformation and disinformation--on COVID-19. This infodemic hampered pandemic mitigation efforts, resulting in non-compliance with public health measures and delays to the national vaccination programme in the first six months of the pandemic due to widespread vaccine hesitancy or vaccine refusal. Furthermore, it fomented public distrust of the government and other institutions.On Indonesian social media, this infodemic engendered a peculiar type of hybrid narrative, combining global conspiracy theories with local moral economies and religious sentiments. Religious micro-influencers were particularly influential in spreading the narrative that the government's COVID-19 policies could not be trusted, and that COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous and haram. Such posts were often removed in line with the social media platforms' policies to combat false information on COVID-19, and the individuals who created such content risked prosecution in line with the government's punitive approach to "hoaxes". However, this did not lessen the prevalence of anti-vaccine narratives, nor did it mitigate public distrust of the government.The government also contributed to the spiral of distrust through its inconsistent policies, lack of transparency, and mixed messages. Especially in the pandemic's early phases, government officials themselves were found spreading misleading information, first to downplay the severity and risk of COVID-19 in order to avoid social unrest, and subsequently to push for a quick reopening of the economy. In prioritizing the economy over public health, considerable resources were spent on influence campaigns to persuade the public to continue business as normal.The influence campaigns appeared to succeed in persuading people to return to work and to get vaccinated eventually. However, public distrust remained and was easily reactivated on social media in response to inconsistencies and double standards in the government's enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions.

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In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost-forgotten media forms. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Belisle explores depth both as a problem of visual representation (how can flat images depict a voluminous world?) and as a philosophical paradox (how do things cohere beyond the limits of our view?). She explains how today's depth effects continue colonialist ambitions toward totalizing ways of seeing. But she also shows how artists stage dimensionality to articulate what remains invisible and irreducible.

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Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on TerrorNo video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the "military shooter." Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy's name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future battles, converting the reality of contemporary conflicts into playable, experiences. In the aftermath of 9/11, these games transformed a national crisis into fantastic and profitable adventures, where seemingly powerless spectators became solutions to these virtual Wars on Terror. Playing War provides a cultural framework for understanding the popularity of military-themed video games and their significance in the ongoing War on Terror. Matthew Payne examines post-9/11 shooter-style game design as well as gaming strategies to expose how these practices perpetuate and challenge reigning political beliefs about America's military prowess and combat policies. Far from offering simplistic escapist pleasures, these post-9/11 shooters draw on a range of nationalist mythologies, positioning the player as the virtual hero at every level. Through close readings of key games, analyses of marketing materials, and participant observations of the war gaming community, Playing War examines an industry mobilizing anxieties about terrorism and invasion to craft immersive titles that transform international strife into interactive fun.

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Dieser Band beschreibt das Mediensystem im Alten Reich nicht als eine Summe einzelner Mediengeschichten, weist auch nicht auf die Faszination der Anfänge (»Erfindung« der Zeitung u.ä.) hin, sondern stellt den Zusammenhang der Medien untereinander dar, aber auch ihre Abhängigkeit von Infrastrukturen wie Post und Buchgewerbe. Nicht zuletzt wird der Blick auch auf die bisher wenig beachtete Leserperspektive gelenkt. Das Mediensystem des Alten Reiches wird somit als ein System angesehen, dessen einzelne Elemente miteinander in Verbindung standen und einander wechselseitig beeinflussten. Die Aufsätze befassen sich mit den buchbezogenen Gewerben und den Beziehungen der entsprechenden Berufsgruppen untereinander sowie mit der besonderen Struktur der Reichspost, die als Voraussetzung und Teil der frühneuzeitlichen Medienrevolution aufgefasst wird. Sie beschäftigen sich mit einzelnen, auch selten untersuchten Medien - geschriebenen Zeitungen, Flugblättern und Flugschriften; Hof- und Staatskalendern, gedruckten Zeitungen, Festbeschreibungen - und stellen diese Medien zugleich in die Zusammenhänge mit ihrer Produktion, der Beschaffung und Verbreitung von Nachrichten und der Aufnahme bei den Lesern.

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