Freedom. Safety. Survival. Three things she thought she'd find in Italy. Three things that turned into a deadly trap.When Arianna Rose escapes her abusive home in New Orleans, she believes Italy holds the key to her freedom. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a cursed motel room where every shadow holds a threat and every sound could be her last. As she fights to survive each terrifying night, a powerful figure emerges from the criminal underworld. Vlad, a ruthl...

We can begin to pray for our children even before they are born. With much information and little time, the overwhelming thought, “Where do I start?” can hinder us from starting to pray. Pregnancy Prayers was written to encourage you to get on your knees with Scripture and prayer thoughts to open your hearts.

We can begin to pray for our children even before they are born. With much information and little time, the overwhelming thought, “Where do I start?” can hinder us from starting to pray. Pregnancy Prayers was written to encourage you to get on your knees with Scripture and prayer thoughts to open your hearts.

The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice within non-fiction storytelling. Their various incarnations are now a focus at leading film festivals (IDFA DocLab, Tribeca Storyscapes, Sheffield DocFest), major international awards have been won, and they are increasingly the subject of academic ...

This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on the history, social responsibility, and cultural impact of design. More than an instructor’s gu...

YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy.The book critically examines the public debates surrounding the site, demons...

More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'.In this accessible introduction, Graham Meikle and Mercedes Bunz observe its promises of conven...

This text is an introduction to the future of mass media and mass communications cross-media communications. Cross-media is explained through the presentation and analysis of contemporary examples and project-based tutorials in cross-media development. The text introduces fundamental terms and concepts and provides a solid overview of cross-media communications one that builds from a general introduction to a specific examination of media and genres to a discussion of the concepts involved in...

Although the dot-com bubble burst long ago, the interactive media industry is still flush with fresh talent, new ideas and financial success. Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issues facing the industry. From the perspective of older disciplines such as education, fine art and cinema, this volume investigates how dot-com practitioners balance the science of usabilit...

Media and Information Literacy: An Integrated Approach for the 21st Century provides a novel rationale for the integration of media and information literacy and gives direction to contemporary media and information literacy education. The book takes a synthetic approach to these two areas, presenting critical histories of both. The book explores the influence of political forces and educational practice on media literacy and the contemporary media environment, focusing on computing and mob...

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where reality is open so...

The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology, to...