Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision by Carol Vernallis

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Title: Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision

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Were experiencing a time when digital technologies and advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data are redefining what it means to be human. How do these advancements affect contemporary media and music? This collection traces how media, with a focus on sound and image, engages with these new technologies. It bridges the gap between science and the humanities by pairing humanists close readings of contemporary media with scientists discussions of the science and math that inform them. This textincludes contributions by established and emerging scholars performing across-the-aisle research on new technologies, exploring topics such as facial and gait recognition; EEG and audiovisual materials; surveillance; and sound and images in relation to questions of sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability, and class and includes examples from a range of films and TV shows including , , , , and . Through a variety of critical, theoretical, proprioceptive, and speculative lense