Webcam

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The use of webcam, particularly through platforms such as Skype, has recently become a mainstream media technology. However, there has been no comprehensive evaluation of its implications and effects. The webcam has profound implications for various aspects of human life, including self-awareness, intimacy, long-distance relationships, and social communication through visual media.

This book is the result of research conducted in London and Trinidad and offers insights into the webcam phenomenon and how it has evolved into an entirely different media form from its initial purpose as a videophone. The book incorporates the concept of ‘polymedia,’ which refers to new environments created by the simultaneous presence of multiple communication technologies. The webcam is used to exemplify a theory of attainment that acknowledges media technologies as part of our innate humanity rather than detracting from it.

ASIN : B00L7UIKTU
Publisher : Polity; 1st edition (March 12, 2014)
Publication date : March 12, 2014

Language : English
File size : 772 KB

Text-to-Speech : Enabled

Screen Reader : Supported

Enhanced typesetting : Enabled

X-Ray : Not Enabled

Word Wise : Enabled

Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe

Print length : 212 pages

Page numbers source ISBN : 0745671470