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Record Nr.

UNISA996308849003316

Autore

Ross Michael

Titolo

Digital tools in media studies : analysis and research, an overview / / edited by Michael Ross, Manfred Grauer, and Bernd Freisleben

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2009

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

3-8394-1023-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196)

Collana

Medienumbrüche ; 27

Classificazione

AP 12800

Disciplina

791.430723

Soggetti

Mass media - Technological innovations

Mass media - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Introduction    7  Databases for Early Cinema Research    17  Culture in Context    27  Measuring Film Popularity    43  Compartmentalisation and its Influence on Film Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934-1936    55  Mapping the Movies    69  Putting Itinerant Cinemas on the Map    83  Cinemetrics, Part of the Humanities' Cyberinfrastructure    93  Videana: A Software Toolkit for Scientific Film Studies    101  First Steps Towards Digital Formalism: The Vienna Vertov Collection    117  Ghost Director    133  Automatic Movie Trailer Generation Based on Semantic Video Patterns    145  Key Measures and Key Visuals in Brazilian and German TV Annual Reviews    159  Text-Based Film Retrieval 2006    171  How to Capture Offers of Filmic Effectiveness    177

Sommario/riassunto

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools



in their research, providing information on applications, standards, and problems.