digital-media

As immersive technologies transform how art is displayed, consumed, and sold, legal frameworks designed for a pre-digital world are struggling to keep pace. Together with Sheppard Mullin’s Entertainment, Technology and […]

Published on May 1, 2026 8:54 PM GMT I run Caption Comics Festival in Oxford, and am responsible for organizing a Panel on AI. The focus is awareness raising and helping creatives protect their work. Whilst a lot of the talk will be surrounding the impact on creatives (mass theft, copyright infringement, unfair competition etc) I'd also like a broader perspective on the impact. Plus it would be n…

Researchers from Penn State and Loughborough University have developed an image analysis method that gives new insight into how Impressionist paintings were created, offering both experts and non-experts a fresh way to observe and interpret the making of artwork.

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need to join two or more video files into one. Maybe you're stitching together clips from a multi-camera shoot, assembling a highlight reel, or building an automated video pipeline. FFmpeg can do it, but the syntax trips up even experienced developers. FFmpeg has three different ways to concatenate videos: the concat demuxer, the concat filter, and the…

A cross-national survey of 31,000 adults in 30 countries finds that digital health literacy is highest in low- and middle-income countries and lowest in high-income countries, challenging assumptions that national wealth translates into stronger digital skills.

Atchuta Sai Gowtham, Sastra Deemed University, Thanjavur Achanta Rama Chandra, Sastra Deemed University, Thanjavur ABSTRACT The rapid growth of music streaming services has transformed the Indian music industry, shifting consumption patterns from physical sales and broadcasting to on-demand digital platforms such as Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, and Wynk. While these services give users unprecedented…

Arts University Bournemouth arrives at Fashion SVP 2026 in London with AI pattern tools, VR design workflows, and a new commercial agency model that puts student talent directly inside brand briefs. AUB staff demonstrate the Holobox hologram display at the AUB Innovation Hub at Fashion SVP 2026, Olympia London. The Hologram Box, supplied in collaboration with Vertex Global VM, displays ThruDark's…

The Covid-19 pandemic brought about an unprecedented cycle of digitally spread humor. This article analyzes a corpus of 12,337 humor items from 80+ countries, mainly in visual format, and mostly memes, collected during the first half of 2020, to understand the features and intended audiences of this “pandemic humor”. Employing visual machine-learning techniques and additional qualitative analysis…

We've already played a chunk of Owlcat Games' take on The Expanse, and it looks like the hard sci-fi Mass Effect successor we were hoping for.

Over the past decade, Korean pop culture (including K-pop and K-drama series) has conquered the world and left its mark on the European market. Today, the number of fans of Korean culture exceeds 225 million. This study examines this fan phenomenon through a European sample. It focuses on fans who are not only consumers but also content creators, producers, and shapers of culture in digital media…

The rapid expansion of digital platforms and generative artificial intelligence has reshaped how university students access and evaluate academic information, intensifying concerns about information reliability, critical thinking, and ethical use. This study addresses the gap between students’ widespread access to digital information and their capacity to critically evaluate and responsibly use i…

New media artist Refik Anadol announced the opening date for Dataland, which is dubbed the world's first museum of AI arts.

There's a serious fandom growing around videocassettes, one that includes such directors as Jane Schoenbrun and Alex Ross Perry. Is it retro nostalgia or something deeper?

Walkie-talkies, teen romance, hideous monsters … this animated series has everything that made the original series so lovable. It might go nowhere, but that’s not such a bad thing Stranger Things takes us back to simpler times. The original Netflix series plonked us in a fantasy past where kids in small American towns rode bikes, chewed gum, listened to cassettes and played Dungeons and Dragons i…

Return Paths: Tracing the Sound of Black, Asian, and Indigenous Technologies Briët, Kayla Luray In Return Paths: Tracing the Sound of Black, Asian, and Indigenous Technologies, I explore the intertwined histories of sound, craft, and computation across diasporic Black, Asian, and Indigenous communities. Moving across four technological eras— acoustic instruments, radio and spectrum, amplification…

The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams I spent last week at Harvard doing research in the archives of William James, the psychologist, philosopher, psychical researcher, brother of Henry James, and all around interesting person. He was a brilliant, charming, self-defeating, deeply strange man (exhibit A: h…

5 years ago I started a now completely stalled project (fingers crossed I can figure out how to restart soon) to draw all of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art. Why? I started this project for no other reason than I love to get into the ‘flow state’ from this kind of creative endeavour, and obviously I love to use old Macintosh computers. It feels very satisfying to get each pixe…

High-fidelity digital twins are transforming how products are designed and validated. But for many organizations, their true value stops at…