Reimagining Communication: Action

Michael Filimowicz, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer-mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation. Veronika Tzankova is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, and a communications instructor at Columbia College—both in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human–computer interaction and communication. Sports shapes the essence of her research, which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.

Chapter 1 Reimagining Activism as Combative; Chapter 2 Mobile phones use in an Arab context: Blending modernity and tradition; Chapter 3 Government Policy, Communication and (Affective) Governmentality; Chapter 4 Data Ethics: A Survey of Key Debates and Essential Principles; Chapter 5 Encryption and Hacking: Cyphers, Hacks and Attacks on the Digital Frontier; Chapter 6 A Critical Re-Visioning of Networked Power in Photojournalism Praxis; Chapter 7 White noise, mixed signals, strategic chaos, and the roar of the bewildered herd; Chapter 8 Transmedia; Chapter 9 Machine Translation, Language Learning and the ‘Knowledge Economy’: From economic discourses to education in action; Chapter 10 Design; Chapter 11 Media Production in the age of Internet Media: Digitisation, Mediation, Co-Creation; Chapter 12 An economic, social and cultural approach to prosumption: music and sound as parodic tools on YouTube meme videos; Chapter 13 Collaboration Models in Online Fiction-writing Communities; Chapter 14 Culture Industries; Chapter 15 Reimagining Digital Humanities: Today’s Trends, Tomorrow’s Promises; Chapter 16 Cochlear Implants and Sign Language in Australia: Why the Deaf Community Must Embrace Non-Signing Implant Recipients; Chapter 17 Familiar Avenues and Paths Less Traveled: Reimagining Organizational Crisis Communication; Chapter 18 Cyber War and Militarization of Communication; Chapter 19 Invitations to Participation: How Immersive Presentations and Emotional Displays Promote Political Involvement;