Product Description: Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection attempts to answer this question using examples drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from the United States to Japa...read more

Product Description: This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media. Elleström proposes a model for pinpointing the most vital conceptual entities and stages in intermedial transfers involving different media types such as speech, writing, music, films, and websites...read more

Product Description: Although several books and academic courses discuss data management and networking, few of them focus on the convergence of networking and software technologies for identifying, addressing, and managing distributed data. Focusing on this convergence, Identification and Management of Distributed Data: NGN, Content-Centric Networks and the Web collates and describes the various distributed data management technologies to help readers from various backgrounds understand the common aspects that govern distributed data management...read more

Product Description: Supplying a comprehensive introduction to next-generation networks, Building Next-Generation Converged Networks: Theory and Practice strikes a balance between how and why things work and how to make them work. It compiles recent advancements along with basic issues from the wide range of fields related to next generation networks...read more

Product Description: Faced with what many were calling a dying medium, US network television producers became much more aggressive in seeking out alternative business and artistic models in the beginning of this century. Most significantly, many of these producers turned to the emerging field of transmedia (ancillary texts in comicbooks, novels and new media) as a way to bolster and support television products...read more

Product Description: This is a micro-analysis explaining how the transition to digital media has impacted film by looking at production outside of the mainstream Hollywood studio system in Germany. This book addresses the lack of scholarship on the impact of new media on German film...read more

Product Description: All you need to know about deploying VoIP protocols in one comprehensive and highly practical reference - Now updated with coverage on SIP and the IMS infrastructure This book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of the technology behind Internet Telephony (IP), providing essential information to Network Engineers, Designers, and Managers who need to understand the protocols...read more

Product Description: Traditionally, the technologies of telecommunications, broadcasting, satellite, and computing operated independently while the industries associated with each were regulated independently along the same lines. Technological convergence challenges the vertical regulatory models of broadcasting, telecommunications, and computer services while simultaneously challenging the traditional approach to regulation by nation-states...read more

Product Description: When Miss Sarah Sheridan receives a mysterious letter, her staid life as her cousin's companion in Bath is quite overset. The only way she can solve the mystery is by returning to Blanchland, once her home and now belonging to Sir Ralph Covell, a byword for depravity! Her disquiet is compounded by an unexpected meeting with Guy, Viscount Renshaw, who at first gains quite the wrong impression of Sarah! Her reputation will be ruined if she goes, and Guy determines he must help her...read more

Product Description: This manual approaches the combination of voice, video and data within the new communications paradigm of IP convergence and examines how these different types of communication will be delivered to any environment from LAN to WAN at much less cost and complexity than either ISDN or ATM...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)