The principal research question of this study is framed as:
Do prevailing, industrially and politically sourced definitions of
Digital Exhibition faithfully represent the phenomenon¿s position
within the contemporary media theory framework?
Within this work Digital Exhibition is defined as:
The practice of presenting moving images, either live or pre-recorded,
to paying audiences, in public spaces, by means of digital distribution
and projection.
The majority of established literatures concerning Digital Exhibition are aimed at
producing categorical definitions of the phenomenon. These ¿meaning making¿
discourses commonly stem from potentially ideologically affected sources.
To address this issue, the author has investigated the political economy of key
commentators, and Digital Exhibition has been impartially researched following a
¿case studies¿ methodology; with an analytical framework based upon a series of
¿plausible rival hypotheses¿. These hypotheses include that Digital Exhibition isM
¿ a form of the cinema
¿ a form of television
¿ a new (new media) medium
¿ multiple media
¿ not a medium
It is presented that each investigated hypothesis can be argued to be legitimate
when employing established media theories as the means of rationalisation.
Nevertheless, the author concludes that individual industrially / politically
charged definitions still do not provide an adequately comprehensive account
as to the wealth of interpretations that can be drawn for Digital Exhibition.
The author also presents his own perspective as to the subjective nature of
contemporary media taxonomies, and ultimately proposes that Digital Exhibition is
not a medium, but is a designation offered to a subjectively defined collection of events
made possible through the transmission of computational binary pulse signals.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5334 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Walker, Simon James |
| Contributors | Allen, Patrick T., Palmer, Ian J. |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Bradford Media School School of Computing Informatics and Media |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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