Digital and Analog Communication Research Papers (original) (raw)

Since at least the early 1990s with the publication of groundbreaking works such as Manovich's The Language of New Media, the rise of digital and online media into every facet of our lives has been conceptualized through distinctions between " new " and " old " media. Yet, scholars have recently started to criticize such concepts, arguing that they are inappropriate to describe media change and that they do not help improve our understanding of the relationship between different media in contemporary societies. Approaches to the biography and social life of media have examined how definitions of oldness and newness are attributed to technologies and artefacts throughout their lifetime, providing an interpretative model to rethink processes such as convergence, media encounters, and the transformations that media technologies and practices experience throughout time. This special issue will further advance these reflections. It aims to illuminate places, cases, and contexts where distinctions between old and new media break down, and to propose alternative theoretical frameworks that redefine media change and the interaction between different media. Papers are invited that interrogate how changing definitions of old and new media inform the trajectory of specific media as well as their interrelations, moving away from rigid conceptions of oldness and newness to emphasise, instead, the persistent changes that characterise our relationship with media objects and technologies.

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- Media Studies, New Media, Media Archaeology, Digital Media
- by Aimal Rehman
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- Matlab, Digital and Analog Communication, Matlab Programming, Matlab/Simulink
- by Nicholas Hedges
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- Music, Music Technology, Computer Music, Digital and Analog Communication
- by Aimal Rehman
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- Matlab, Digital and Analog Communication, Matlab Programming, Matlab/Simulink
- by Mohiuddin Mahbub
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- Digital and Analog Communication
- by Aimal Rehman
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- Matlab, Digital and Analog Communication, Matlab/Simulink

Der Beitrag untersucht die Frage, ob die Behauptung, die digitale Revolution habe unseren Glauben an die Wahrheit fotografischer Bilder erschüttert bzw. digitale Bilder hätten uns in eine post-fotografische Ära katapultiert, wirklich der Realität entspricht. In diesem Zusammenhang wird zunächst einmal der Unterschied zwischen der Aufzeichnungsoptik der herkömmlichen Fotografie und der digitalen Fotografie herausgearbeitet, um sodann darauf einzugehen, dass Fotografien bereits lange vor der digitalen Wende Eingriffen unterzogen wurden. Anhand zweier Beispiele aus England (Schneiden und Kleben, Henry Peach Robinson und Inszenieren und Typisieren, Thomas John Barnardo) wird gezeigt, dass der fotografische Realismus mehr oder weniger permanent Krisen unterworfen war, in denen die soziale Konstruktion der Fotografie überprüft, differenziert oder bekräftigt wurde. Beide Beispiele verdeutlichen, dass die Beziehung von Fotografie und Wahrheit im Laufe der Mediengeschichte differenzierter verhandelt worden ist, als die Digitalitätsdebatte unterstellt hat. Wichtig ist, dass technische und gesellschaftliche Komplexität aufeinander bezogen werden anstatt sie zu konfrontieren, so dass Technik und Gesellschaft sich wechselseitige Möglichkeitsräume eröffnen.

- by Jens Ruchatz
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- Digital Photography, Trust, Media Theory, History of photography
- by Simone Mahrenholz
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- Philosophy Of Language, Creativity, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant

What roles do media technologies, artifacts, and users play in cultural change? This dissertation focuses on the shift from analog to digital media and concentrates on the role played by copies and replication in both systems of representation to identify and analyze material practices and rhetorical claims about their cultural influence. Specifically, it identifies and critiques the influence of recording formats qua copies in the history of three forms of composition in popular-music culture—remixes, disco edits, and MP3 blogs—to ask how something that is just the same can bring something new into being. I show that a focus on an artifact’s status as a copy—an object that can be said to be the same as other things—can illuminate our understanding of the cultural changes associated with digital and network technologies. By simultaneously identifying new cultural practices that are dependent on pure copying and resurrecting histories of media use, I critique the rhetoric of remix and participation as common tropes in digital discourse. This thesis examines the ways in which digital technologies were shaped by analog ones, as well as how and why analog formats persist in an era of digital networks. This exploration highlights the materiality of all media formats and shows how everyday users have played with and exploited material affordances over the past half-century. It also ponders the persistence of romantic ideals about authorship and expression within modes of expression and discourse that seem to challenge such constructions. What do these continuities and contradictions suggest about the networked experience and the social and cultural pleasures we derive from it? By teasing out unspoken assumptions about media and culture, this thesis offers fresh perspectives on the cultural poetics of networks and artifacts and poses questions about the promises and challenges of network visibility.

- by Margie Borschke
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- Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies

POPTXT is a visual exploration of the phenomenon of digital text messaging within the context of contemporary art, specifically new media. The title unassumingly plays on the ubiquitous use of abbreviations within this form of communication and is based on the premise that any widely practiced behaviour in society may grow and perpetuate itself as popular and social.
It is the relationship between the ordinariness and volume of insignificant data mass that occurs daily compared to the delicate recursive unpredictable patterns of human interaction that develop over time, that I find most fascinating. The work attempts to unpack this conceptual undercurrent of digital communication. Clear layers and weightless word-shadows mimic the disembodiment of postmodern computer mediated communication contrasted against the personal and emotive nature of human interaction.
The SMS is mourned in poetry as a vintage format and commemorated on static transparent canvasses emphasising the idea of QWERTY limitations, trying to use symbols to transfer emotion and the complexities of human engagement, expression via code. The layering, embedded meaning and linguistic associations that occurs when writing and is inferred upon reading of text messages stands in contrast to the quick, cheap disposability of the medium. This contradiction in terms of the disposable mundanity of texting verse the preciousness of the residues of fleeting daily interactions is an aspect that I find intriguing.
As a social artwork, audiences are allowed to comment online and thereby the dissolving of the ‘white cube’ gallery space, the work will live and possibly evolve in a public online sphere for as long as participants continue to contribute and find the work of interest.

- by Lucelle Pillay
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- Mobile Technology, Visual Arts, Digital and Analog Communication

La división del conocimiento en disciplinas-disciplinadas, tal y como fue establecido por la división del trabajo en la era industrial, dividido en facultades, departamentos, currículos, etcétera, se ha disuelto en la atmósfera de los píxeles. La constelación conceptual del ensayo se basa en una indisciplina metodológica. El estudio de lo material y de lo inmaterial, de lo analógico y de lo digital, mezcla conceptos clave: sincretismos culturales, polifonías narrativas, subjetividad ubicua, diásporas inquietas, meta-fetichismos. El etnógrafo se desplaza en torno a estas ideas, intenta capturar los pequeños detalles de los paisajes que van fluyendo en su camino y, de este modo, aprende también a observarse. En el curso de estos métodos reflexivos, el investigador descubre que es parte de la investigación, además de cerciorarse de la inconsistencia dialéctica sujeto/objeto.

- by Liviu-Ovidiu Pop
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- Documents (Library Science), Digital Culture, Archives, Digital Archives

As the powershift from material culture to media culture accelerates, architecture finds itself in the midst of a clash between centuries-old analog design methods and the new digital systems of production. Schools and offices are confronting this very real situation as they struggle to integrate computers in their work without having clear methods, techniques, and theories to relate old and new systems of production. Recent investigations on the use of multiple iterations between digital and analog media to advance architectural production show promising results. However, these experiments have not yet developed a theoretical foundation tying these procedures and approach to a larger conceptual framework. This paper articulates the relevancy of such interfacial propositions in light of the forces driving our contemporary civilization and profession. These premises are further clarified in the productive context of a design studio

- by Julio Bermudez
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- Digital Media, Design Methods, Contemporary Art, Praxis

— In this paper, various techniques like DS, FH, PN sequences are discussed using MATLAB. Bit rate and error probability of these techniques is main focus of analysis in spread spectrum communication ,for this MATLAB SIMULATION is performed and a comparative study among various techniques is achieved. For comparison the parameters discussed are error probability, noise, power spectral density, error rate performance, interference and bandwidth.

- by Vishal Sharma and +1
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- Wireless Communications, Digital and Analog Communication, Noise, Power spectral density

The dramaturgical aesthetic of recent postdramatic performance returns to medieval representational modes: an eye can be used as an ear, and vision can be orchestrated like the auditory space of simultaneous relations. Whether an immersive, site-specific, one-to-one, or digital/new media performance, such performance has no one point of view, no “one” in control; success or failure is largely determined by individual and collective will. Closing the loop means beginning, again, in non-Euclidian space.

- by Kathleen M Gough
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- Performance Studies, Postdramatic theatre, Algorithmic Composition, Dramaturgy

"As the power shift from material culture to media culture accelerates, architecture finds itself in the midst of a clash between centuries old analog design methods (such as tracing paper, vellum, graphite, ink, chipboard, clay, balsa wood, plastic, metal, etc.) and the new digital systems of production (such as scanning, video capture, image manipulation, visualization, solid modeling, computer aided drafting, animation, rendering, etc.). Moving forward requires a realization that a material interpretation of architecture proves limiting at a time when information and media environments are the major drivers of culture. It means to pro-actively incorporate the emerging digital world into our traditional analog work. It means to change.

- by Julio Bermudez and +1
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- Design Methods, Architectural Education, Design Process (Architecture), Architectural Theory

Seventy-one undergraduate students were surveyed to compare their perceptions of the effectiveness and attractiveness of digital and face-to-face (FtF) communication in social support situations. Based on evidence suggesting that digital communication possesses positive qualities that could contribute meaningfully to social support, such as increased willingness to self-disclose (Tidwell & Walther, 2002) and mindfulness when responding (Madell & Muncer, 2007; Perry & Werner-Wilson, 2011), students were expected to rate digital support as more effective and attractive than FtF support. Respondents were also expected to rate digital support as more attractive than effective and FtF support as more effective than attractive. Contrary to Hypotheses 1-3, independent samples t-tests revealed that FtF support was viewed as more attractive and effective than digital support, and digital support was perceived as similarly attractive and effective. However, FtF support was considered more effective than attractive, supporting Hypothesis 4. Paired samples t-tests revealed that digital support was perceived as significantly less embarrassing and more available than FtF support, while FtF support was viewed as preferable for every other measured quality. The perceptions of this sample differed from the experiences of experimental participants in recent literature, indicating a need for more research comparing and contrasting how digital communication is perceived and experienced. Additional significant relationships between subject characteristics were found. Introverts were more drawn to or likely to benefit from digital communication, and younger students showed a preference for FtF support.

Development of numerous low cost micro-controllers with on-chip flash memory and ADC has enabled researchers with limited resources, to implement complex mathematical functions. Cryptography has become an integral part of Digital Communication Systems Standards. Present state-of-art Point-to-Point encryption standards employ many methods of securing data transfer in several layers of OSI model. Data encryption is limited mostly in the presentation layer [1]. In the PHY layer scrambling has become standard operating procedure in secure communication. The degree of security by scrambling depends on the length of the chipping code. Increasing randomness by increasing chipping length comes at the cost of hardware and bandwidth. This work proposes and demonstrates a method of securing point-to-point digital data communication by representing 1s and 0s as distinct but arbitrary wave-shape. The arbitrary wave-shapes being generated by a micro-controller is real-time user programmable and hence would be known only to the sender and recipient, thereby ensuring the security of the data transmitted. This differs from the ongoing method in terms of amount of computation, hardware complexity and bandwidth efficiency.

- by Sreyansh Bhupal
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- Digital and Analog Communication

The paper presents a new approach to the improvement of the "sensor node - base station" (SNBS) links of physical (PHY) layer of wireless sensor networks (WSN) performance. The key idea is the consideration of SNBS as the remote measure¬ment and estimation systems and application of the corres¬ponding analytical tools. It is shown that the main difficulty in the improvement of digital SNBS performance is impossibility to formulate and solve the optimization task using well developed methods of the optimal estimation theory. In turn, SNBS trans-mitting the signals formed by the sensors using analog PAM transmitter adjusted over the feedback channel permit the for-mulation of analytical form of the mean square error (MSE) and solution of optimization task. The obtained optimal transmission - reception algorithm enables designing of a low energy-size-cost analog SNBS which transmit the signals with minimal MSE and a bit rate equal to the capacity of the link. Moreover, the MSE of transmission determines the information characteristics of the links, as well as enables a development of the unified methods of the SNBS real performance evaluation and measurement.

Scope & Topics 3 rd International Conference on Signal Processing, VLSI Design & Communication Systems (SVC 2022) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Signal Processing, VLSI Design & Communication Systems. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Signal, VLSI & Communication systems.

3 rd International Conference on Signal Processing, VLSI Design & Communication Systems (SVC 2022) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Signal Processing, VLSI Design & Communication Systems. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Signal, VLSI & Communication systems.

- by Liviu-Ovidiu Pop
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- Digital Media, Digital and Analog Communication, Postdigital

With mobile phone photography, nostalgia found its own visual paradise. While the lo-fi movement used to invest the flaws of analog photography with a sacred character –contrasting with the alleged disembodied quality of its digital counterpart–, since 2010 a number of applications meant to put a particular stress on nostalgic emotion. “Instant nostalgia”, as the market leaders would call it. By emulating the Polaroid model, the old square frame and the damages of time, users turned their virtual device into a time machine. The surplus value of the past magnifies intimacy and the everyday life; memories are made instantaneous. In a way, the vintage æsthetics reinforces a strong trend running through vernacular uses of photography ever since its inception. As for objects of yesteryear we still live by, thus ennobled they find themselves sent back to their own era. What is that experience that visually abolishes the present time? Are we trying to wipe out the contemporary, or do we need to give it an extra special feel?

- by Gil Bartholeyns
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- Photography, Material Culture Studies, Digital Photography, Mobile Technology

Access to cellular phones as a primary communication device has wetted the appetite of most people both in the developed and developing countries like Zimbabwe. Statistics show that more individuals communicate with cellular phones than with any other device. Mobile is seen by many media analysts as its own medium with its own defining characteristics. The cellular phone has allowed not only talking, texting and blogging, but shopping, banking and reporting. Individuals are so dependent upon phones that the device has become critical in many aspects of everyday life. The mobile technology has empowered a global community of techno savvy consumers known as Generation C. Generation C is not defined by age or nationality, but by an insatiable appetite for all things digital. This discussion will present evidence of a global dependence on cellular phones, and what this means for educators, marketers, consumers and media practitioners.