[Commlist] New book - Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision

*Book Announcement*/-**Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, 
Sound and Vision /(Bloomsbury Academic)//edited by Toija Cinque and 
Jordan Beth Vincent

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/Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/materializing-digital-futures-9781501361265/>, 
/(Bloomsbury, 2022)

Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of every life, from 
workplaces to household devices  – computer and digital television 
screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants and 
applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically-enabled 
opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act 
of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us – 
through touch, movement, sound and vision  – that is the heart of screen 
media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on 
digital media’s currently evolving transformation and transforming 
capacity, this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics 
and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the 
representation of data and creative practice. Issues around 
commodification, identity, identification and political economy are 
critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and 
perceptions that are brought to bear.

"Its themes and concerns are very exciting and timely as we wrestle with 
big data, new concepts of the self, complex augmented-perception and AR 
devices, and ever-increasing layers of surveillance and 
self-surveillance. While exploring the prosthetic joys of these new 
realms, it also helps explain how we grow trapped in our haptics and 
gamed by our games."

Amedeo D’Adamo, Faculty, American Film Institute, USA and Visiting 
Professor in the Department of Media, Universita Cattolica, Italy

*Table of Contents**

SECTION ONE: SOCIO-AESTHETICS OF SOUND AND SIGHT
*Chapter One: Virtual Reality, the Chiasm, and the Doubled Body
Angela Ndalianis
Chapter Two: Sensing Sims: Atmospheres, Aesthetics and the Cyborg Player
Merlin Seller
Chapter Three: Embodied Audiovisual Experience: The Role of Sound in 
Contemporary Screen and Digital Media
Darrin Verhagan and Ben Byrne
Chapter Four: Volumetric Black: Post-Cinematic Blackness
Triton Mobley*

SECTION TWO: MEANING-MAKING IN THE DATA-DRIVEN ERA OF QUANTIFIED MEDIA
*Chapter Five: Quantified Me, Curatorial Lives and the Pixelated Spectre 
of Self
Toija Cinque
Chapter Six: Virtual Reality and Kinaesthetic Connection: Qualities of 
'Being There'.
Kim Vincs
Chapter Seven: Feminist Memes: Digital Communities, Identity 
Performance, and Resistance from the Shadows
Shana MacDonald and Brianna I. Wiens
Chapter Eight: The Infinite Portrait: A Case of Post-Human Authorship
Andrew McIntyre
*
SECTION THREE: TOUCH, BODY, METAL, SCREEN
*Chapter Nine: First Encounters with Robots Through Embodied 
Observation, Imagined Narrative, and Choreography
Amy LaViers
Chapter Ten: Physical Digitality: Making reality visible through 
multimodal digital affordances for Human Perception
Luke Heemsbergen, Greg Bowtell and Jordan Beth Vincent
Chapter Eleven: A True Feel: Re-Embodying the Touch Sense in the Digital 
Fashion Experience
Michela Ornati
Chapter Twelve: What Robots Learn from Performative Relationships and 
Interactive Performance
Steph Hutchison and John McCormick*

SECTION FOUR: DIGITAL FUTURES
*Chapter Thirteen: Smart Home: Smart Devices and the Everyday 
Experiences of the Home
Xi Cui
Chapter Fourteen: Affect and the Digitalization of War
John MacWillie
Chapter Fifteen: Automation in a Myth
Luke Munn
Chapter Sixteen: A Triadic Typology of Material Mediation: Ontology, 
Intentionality and Vitalism
Renata Morais**


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