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This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on the new imagery world opened by the Internet and the digital world. It offers analytical approaches to the visual.

New media art. --- Visual sociology. --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art --- ARTS/General --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture --- Sociology --- Visual communication --- Arts, Modern

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In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic message was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of "My Name is Error," a benign programmer's joke. In I AM ERROR Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (and its Japanese predecessor, the Family Computer), offering a detailed analysis of its programming and engineering, its expressive affordances, and its cultural significance. Nintendo games were rife with mistranslated texts, but, as Altice explains, Nintendo's translation challenges were not just linguistic but also material, with consequences beyond simple misinterpretation. Emphasizing the technical and material evolution of Nintendo's first cartridge-based platform, Altice describes the development of the Family Computer (or Famicom) and its computational architecture; the "translation" problems faced while adapting the Famicom for the U.S. videogame market as the redesigned Entertainment System; Nintendo's breakthrough console title Super Mario Bros. and its remarkable software innovations; the introduction of Nintendo's short-lived proprietary disk format and the design repercussions on The Legend of Zelda; Nintendo's efforts to extend their console's lifespan through cartridge augmentations; the Famicom's Audio Processing Unit (APU) and its importance for the chiptunes genre; and the emergence of software emulators and the new kinds of play they enabled.

Nintendo video games. --- Video games --- Culture --- Design. --- Study and teaching. --- Nintendo of America Inc. --- GAME STUDIES/Game History --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture

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"In 'The Well-Played Game', games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players - as well as game designers, educators, and scholars - a guide to how games work. De Koven's classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and player modification. The digital game industry, now moving beyond its emphasis on graphic techniques to focus on player interaction, has much to learn from 'The Well-Played Game'."

Games --- Play (Philosophy) --- Game theory. --- Philosophy. --- Game theory --- 527 --- gamedesign --- simulaties --- multimedia --- virtuele wereld --- creativiteit --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Children --- Children's games --- Games, Primitive --- Games for children --- Pastimes --- Primitive games --- Recreations --- Entertaining --- Physical education and training --- Amusements --- Play --- Sports --- Philosophy --- informatica - specifieke toepassingen --- Recreation --- GAME STUDIES/General --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies

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The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way. From an infant's gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub-bass frequencies produced by sound systems in the disco era, sound - no necessarily aestheticized as music - is inextricably part of the many domains of popular culture. Expanding the view taken by many scholars of cultural studies, the contributors consider cultural practices concerning sound not merely as semiotic or signifying processes but as material, physical, perceptual, and sensory processes that integrate a multitude or cultural traditions and forms of knowledge. The chapters discuss conceptual issues as well as terminologies and research methods; analyze historical and contemporary practices of sound generation are applied in the diverse fields in which sounds are produced, mastered, distorted, processed, and enhanced. The chapters are not only about sound; they offer a study through sound - echoes from the past, resonances of the present, and the contradictions and discontinuities that suggest the future. -- from dust jacket.

Sound in mass media. --- Sound --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Mass media --- Social aspects. --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General --- ARTS/Music & Sound Studies --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture --- Son --- Environnement sonore --- Création artistique --- Bruit --- Musique --- Histoire de la musique --- Média --- Station de radio tv --- Art et langage --- Sociologie de la communication --- Sociologie de la culture --- Sons --- Dans les médias. --- Aspect social. --- Dans les médias.

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Nie war Freundschaft populärer als heute. Sie gilt als entscheidende Zutat für ein gutes und glückliches Leben. Viele haben auch viele Freunde - jedoch will sich das versprochene Glück nicht so recht einstellen. Woran liegt das? Björn Vedder verknüpft in seiner Zeitdiagnose der Freundschaft philosophische Überlegungen mit der Analyse von popkulturellem Material sowie literarischen Klassikern. Er zeigt, was Freundschaft heute bedeutet, wie sie (auch zu uns selbst) gelingen kann und warum Facebook-Freunde echte Freunde sind. Dabei nimmt er die pessimistischen Kulturkritiken der Gegenwart ernst, teilt deren Defätismus aber nicht, sondern zeigt Wege aus den Pathologien der modernen Freundschaft auf. »Dem Autor gelingen [...] phänomenologische Deskriptionen, die Jean-Paul Sartres berühmter Beschreibung einer Ski-Abfahrt gerecht werden.« Roland Braun, Philosophische Rundschau, 64 (2017) »Ein lesenswertes Konzept moderner Freundschaft, das auch reichlich Gelegenheit zu einer eigenen kritischen - vermutlich an einigen Punkten zustimmenden und an anderen widersprechenden Positionierung - bietet. Insofern ist das Buch sicher interessant, für alle die sich in dieser Weise mit dem Konstrukt der Freundschaft auseinandersetzen möchten.« Thomas Molck, www.socialnet.de, 08.11.2017 »Ein wunderbares Buch, anspruchsvoll und ehrlich, und eines, in dem man sich nicht nur dauernd etwas anstreicht, sondern fast schon versucht ist, die angestrichenen Formulierungen auswendig zu lernen. Wer hätte so etwas erwartet.« Christophe Fricker, www.literaturkritik.de, 24.09.2017 »In einer gelungenen Verknüpfung philosophischer Ansätze mit den Freundschaftsinterpretationen antiker Klassiker bis zeitgenössischer Popkultur gelingt [Björn Vedder] ein mediengeschichtlicher Zirkelschlag.« merz, 61/3 (2017) »Psychologisch überzeugend formuliert Björn Vedder einen Gegenentwurf zur pessimistischen Kulturkritik, die in der Aufmerksamkeits-Ökonomie der sozialen Medien nur eitle Selbstbespiegelung erkennt.« Frank Kaspar, WDR3 - Mosaik, 26.05.2017 »[Der Mensch] ist nicht gebunden, er muss sich selbst binden - und dazu braucht er Partnerschaften genauso wie Freundschaften. Zum Verstehen dieser Phänomene muss noch einiges getan werden, Björn Vedders Buch über Neue Freunde ist ein wertvoller Beitrag dazu.« Jörg Friedrich, Hohe Luft, 3 (2017) O-Ton: »Unverzichtbar? - Freundschaft« - Björn Vedder zu Gast beim Philosophischem Radio am 21.04.2017. O-Ton: »Echte Freundschaft per Like-Button?« - Björn Vedder im Gespräch mit Katja Bigalke am 08.04. beim Deutschlandfunk. O-Ton: »Freundschaft in Zeiten von Facebook« - Björn Vedder im Gespräch mit Christoph Leibold am 31.03.2017 auf bayern 2. O-Ton: »Bitte liken, sonst löschen!« - Björn Vedder im Gespräch mit Ulrich Biermann am 29.03.2017 beim Deutschlandfunk. Besprochen in: Der Tagesspiegel, 16.04.2017 iX, 6 (2016), Jürgen Diercks Süddeutsche Zeitung, 26.06.2017, Björn Hayer Neue Stadt, 3 (2019)

Philosophie; Freundschaft; Zeitgenössische Kultur; Kulturwissenschaft; Popkultur; Narzissmus; Glück; Philosophie der Emotionen; Aristoteles; Facebook; Sozialität; Gesellschaft; Sozialphilosophie; Kultursoziologie; Philosophy; Friendship; Contemporary Ulture; Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Narcissism; Happiness; Philosophy of Emotions; Aristotele; Social Relations; Society; Social Philosophy; Sociology of Culture --- Facebook (Electronic resource) --- Aristotele. --- Contemporary Ulture. --- Cultural Studies. --- Facebook. --- Friendship. --- Happiness. --- Narcissism. --- Philosophy of Emotions. --- Popular Culture. --- Social Philosophy. --- Social Relations. --- Society. --- Sociology of Culture.