This book follows an interdisciplinary approach to emerging markets, information and communication technologies. It creates awareness of changes in cultures of lifestyle consumption, which is both theoretically and empirically explored across multiple nations. This yields insight into the...

1. Analyzing user behavior in digital games / Anders Drachen and Alessandro Canossa -- 2. Comparing two playability heuristic sets with expert review method: a case study of mobile game evaluation / Janne Paavilainen, Hannu Korhonen and Hannamari Saarenpää -- 3. Lovely place to buy!: enhancing...

"This book offers a unique opportunity in both the social sciences, humanities, and communication fields to provide concrete concepts and notions in the areas of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue"--Provided by publisher.

Terroredia: exchanging terrorism oxygen for media airwaves / Mahmoud Eid -- Understanding terrorism / Mahmoud Eid -- Understanding media during times of terrorism / Robert Hackett -- Terrorism manifestations / Jonathan R. White -- Media representations of terrorism / John Downing -- Types of...

"This reference provides a review of the academic and popular literature on the relationship between communications and media studies, cinema, advertising, public relations, religion, food tourism, art, sports, technology, culture, marketing, and entertainment practices"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to connecting with the consumer through branding strategies in the entertainment and media fields, featuring information regarding emergent research and techniques"--Provided by publisher

This book examines the effect of technological rationalism on communication and learning outcomes in a global, multi-cultural world. Drawing on the experiences and research expertise of key researchers and educators from multiple disciplines, this book presents real-world examples of virtual...

Multiplatform e-learning systems are emerging technologies that provide integrated learning content to various accessing devices. This book addresses technical challenges, design frameworks, and development experiences of the future that integrate multiple mobile devices into a single...

Successful use of information and communication technologies depends on usable designs that do not require expensive training, accommodate the needs of diverse users and are low cost. There is a growing demand and increasing pressure for adopting innovative approaches to the design and delivery...

"This book highlights original research on new theories, algorithms, technologies, system design, and implementation in multimedia data engineering and management with an emphasis on automatic indexing, tagging, high-order ranking, and rule mining"--Provided by publisher.