Ambient Media

Ambient Media

Author: Paul Roquet

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1452945470

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Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan, and what it means to use media as a resource for personal mood regulation. Paul Roquet traces the emergence of ambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960s and 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation. Focusing on how an atmosphere works to reshape those dwelling within it, Roquet shows how ambient aesthetics can provide affordances for reflective drift, rhythmic attunement, embodied security, and urban coexistence. Musicians, video artists, filmmakers, and novelists in Japan have expanded on Brian Eno’s notion of the ambient as a style generating “calm, and a space to think,” exploring what it means to cultivate an ambivalent tranquility set against the uncertain horizons of an ever-shifting social landscape. Offering a new way of understanding the emphasis on “reading the air” in Japanese culture, Ambient Media documents both the adaptive and the alarming sides of the increasing deployment of mediated moods. Arguing against critiques of mood regulation that see it primarily as a form of social pacification, Roquet makes a case for understanding ambient media as a neoliberal response to older modes of collective attunement—one that enables the indirect shaping of social behavior while also allowing individuals to feel like they are the ones ultimately in control.


The Fundamentals of Creative Advertising

The Fundamentals of Creative Advertising

Author: Ken Burtenshaw

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-09-19

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 2940447187

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The Fundamentals of Creative Advertising 2nd edition provides a rich introduction to the key elements of creative advertising. Burtenshaw, Mahon and Barfoot explore the role of the creative team (comprising art director and copywriter) and examine the ways in which these teams generate ideas and the techniques they utilize. This second edition reflects the changes that have taken place within the advertising industry over recent years and, in particular, the growth of digital media and integrated advertising campaigns. Interviews with leading practitioners, exercises and checklists combine to provide an up-to-date overview of the industry, and to encourage a practical application of the creative ideas explored within the book.


Marketing

Marketing

Author: Rosalind Masterson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1446297667

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*Winners - British Book Design Awards 2014 in the category Best Use of Cross Media* Get access to an interactive eBook* when you buy the paperback (Print paperback version only, ISBN 9781446296424) Watch the video walkthrough to find out how your students can make the best use of the interactive resources that come with the new edition! With each print copy of the new 3rd edition, students receive 12 months FREE access to the interactive eBook* giving them the flexibility to learn how, when and where they want. An individualized code on the inside back cover of each book gives access to an online version of the text on Vitalsource Bookshelf® and allows students to access the book from their computer, tablet, or mobile phone and make notes and highlights which will automatically sync wherever they go. Green coffee cups in the margins link students directly to a wealth of online resources. Click on the links below to see or hear an example: Watch videos to get a better understanding of key concepts and provoke in-class discussion Visit websites and templates to help guide students’ study A dedicated Pinterest page with wealth of topical real world examples of marketing that students can relate to the study A Podcast series where recent graduates and marketing professionals talk about the day-to-day of marketing and specific marketing concepts For those students always on the go, Marketing an Introduction 3rd edition is also supported by MobileStudy – a responsive revision tool which can be accessed on smartphones or tablets allowing students to revise anytime and anywhere that suits their schedule. New to the 3rd edition: Covers topics such as digital marketing, global marketing and marketing ethics Places emphasis on employability and marketing in the workplace to help students prepare themselves for life after university Fun activities for students to try with classmates or during private study to help consolidate what they have learnt (*interactivity only available through Vitalsource eBook)


Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence

Author: Boris De Ruyter

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 3642169163

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In a world supported by Ambient Intelligence (AmI), various devices embedded in the environment collectively use the distributed information and the intelligence inherent in this interconnected environment. A range of information from sensing and reas- ing technologies is used by distributed devices in the environment. The cooperation between natural user interfaces and sensor interfaces covers all of a person’s s- roundings, resulting in a device environment that behaves intelligently; the term “Ambient Intelligence” has been coined to describe it. In this way, the environment is able to recognize the persons in it, to identify their individual needs, to learn from their behavior, and to act and react in their interest. Since this vision is influenced by a lot of different concepts in information proce- ing and combines multi-disciplinary fields in electrical engineering, computer science, industrial design, user interfaces, and cognitive sciences, considerable research is needed to provide new models of technological innovation within a multi-dimensional society. Thus the AmI vision relies on the large-scale integration of electronics into the environment, enabling the actors, i.e., people and objects, to interact with their surrounding in a seamless, trustworthy, and natural manner.


Strategic Innovative Marketing

Strategic Innovative Marketing

Author: Damianos P. Sakas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-25

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 3030160998

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This proceedings volume highlights cutting-edge approaches for contemporary issues evolved in strategic marketing and the integration of theory and practice. It focuses on strategic research and innovative activities in marketing that can be used in everyday operations. The contributions have been divided into eight sections, grouping emerging marketing technologies together in a close examination of practices, problems and trends. The first section examines management challenges which influence societies, cultures, networks, organizations, teams, and individuals. It emphasizes ways business processes foster innovation and facilitate management transitions from dominant structures to more evolutionary, developmental paradigms. The second section discusses the benefits and guidelines to implementation of green marketing strategies. The following section pursues new perspectives of the role of location in marketing and its impact on consumer well-being. The next section explores the impacts of user generated content (UGC) on marketing theories and practice, which is followed by a section identifying how market-based assets can contribute to a sustainable competitive advantage. The sixth section covers understanding consumer perception to make marketing decisions. The final sections promote the use of business informatics and modeling in marketing and also the development of integrating information management in ways that change how people use information to engage in knowledge focused activities. The papers from the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing (IC-SIM 2017) have been written by scientists, researchers, practitioners and students that demonstrate a special orientation in strategic marketing, all of whom aspire to be ahead of the curve based on the pillars of innovation. This proceedings volume shares their recent contributions to the field and showcases their exchange of insights on strategic issues in the science of innovation marketing.


Marketing

Marketing

Author: Jon Groucutt

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780749441142

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Marketing: Essential principles, new realities has been researched, developed and written primarily with the undergraduate and diploma-level student in mind. This student-oriented text, with its relaxed and free flowing language, provides the reader with material of a rigorous academic standard. Each chapter follows a set structure that has been designed to encourage discussion and raise issues for consideration and research:introduction;learning objectives;chapter sub headings - key issues;chapter summary;exercises and questions for review and critical thinking.At the end of the book there are additional notes and references to support student learning.Written by authors from both an academic and practitioner background, this new textbook offers an excellent introduction to the subject for the next generation of marketers and business people.FREE CD ROM FOR LECTURERSThe authors have created a unique CD ROM containing both lecture presentation slides and essay questions. This is available on request from the publisher.CONTENTSIntroductionWhat is marketing?The business and marketing environmentEthical marketing and social responsibilityBuyer behaviourSegmenting, positioning and targetingMarketing researchMarketing and strategyProducts and brandsPrice and pricing strategiesPromotion part 1Promotion part 2People, physical evidence and processPlacement, distribution and logisticsMarketing across borders: the international dimensionApplication: bringing the elements togetherNotesReferenceIndexPlease view more information on this book, including a sample chapter and detailed, full contents at http://www.kogan-page.co.uk/groucutt


The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook

The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook

Author: Andrew Sears

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-09-19

Total Pages: 1386

ISBN-13: 1410615863

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This second edition of The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook provides an updated, comprehensive overview of the most important research in the field, including insights that are directly applicable throughout the process of developing effective interactive information technologies. It features cutting-edge advances to the scientific


Strategic Innovative Marketing

Strategic Innovative Marketing

Author: Androniki Kavoura

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-26

Total Pages: 725

ISBN-13: 331933865X

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This book presents the latest on the theoretical approach of the contemporary issues evolved in strategic marketing and the integration of theory and practice. It seeks to make advancements in the discipline by promoting strategic research and innovative activities in marketing. The book highlights the use of data analytics, intelligence and knowledge-based systems in this area. In the era of knowledge-based economy, marketing has a lot to gain from collecting and analyzing data associated with customers, business processes, market economics or even data related to social activities. The contributed chapters are concerned with using modern qualitative and quantitative techniques based on information technology used to manage and analyze business data, to discover hidden knowledge and to introduce intelligence into marketing processes. This allows for a focus on innovative applications in all aspects of marketing, of computerized technologies related to data analytics, predictive analytics and modeling, business intelligence and knowledge engineering, in order to demonstrate new ways of uncovering hidden knowledge and supporting marketing decisions with evidence-based intelligent tools. Among the topics covered include innovative tourism marketing strategies, marketing communications in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the use of business modeling, as well as reflecting on the marketing trends and outlook for all transportation industry segments. The papers in this proceedings has been written by scientists, researchers, practitioners and students that demonstrate a special orientation in strategic marketing, all of whom aspire to be ahead of the curve based on the pillars of innovation. This proceedings volume compiles their contributions to the field, highlighting the exchange of insights on strategic issues in the science of innovation marketing.