Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision

The collection explores how digital technologies and advances in AI, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human and how they affect contemporary media and music. It pairs humanist readings of media with scientific discussions of the science and math that inform them, bridging the gap between science and the humanities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 472 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

We’re experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human. How do these advancements affect contemporary media and music? This collection traces how media, with a focus on sound and image, engages with these new technologies. It bridges the gap between science and the humanities by pairing humanists’ close readings of contemporary media with scientists’ discussions of the science and math that inform them. This text includes contributions by established and emerging scholars performing across-the-aisle research on new technologies, exploring topics such as facial and gait recognition; EEG and audiovisual materials; surveillance; and sound and images in relation to questions of sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and class and includes examples from a range of films and TV shows including Blade Runner, Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Morgan, Ex Machina, and Westworld. Through a variety of critical, theoretical, proprioceptive, and speculative lenses, the collection facilitates interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration and provides readers with ways of responding to these new technologies.

Weight: 818g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501357046