Superheroes and Digital Perspectives: Super Data

Superheroes and Digital Perspectives: Super Data
by: Young (Author),Sarah(Author)
Publisher:Lexington Books
Publication Date: 15 April 2024
Language:English
Print Length:162 pages
ISBN-10:1666952192
ISBN-13:9781666952193
Book Description
Looking primarily at the twenty-first century boom in superhero media, this collection provides insights into the overlap between data, the internet, and the superhero. Multiple disciplinary approaches investigate what can be learned from the superhero genre and its use and involvement with networked technology.
About the Author
Review Superheroes and Digital Perspectives considers how the superhero narrative is both shaped and informed by digital assemblages. This timely book examines how the superhero is often empowered by digital technologies; is mediated by digital technology within the narrative text; and is consumed and disseminated to an audience and readership that is itself fragmented and mediated by digital and social media. Exploring television, film and video-games, this new work on superhero culture is an important addition for scholars of popular media.This book succeeds magnificently in opening up and illuminating the dynamic interplay between the global phenomenon of superheroes and the digital world in which we live. Richly and scrupulously researched, Superheroes and Digital Perspectives: Super Data is an important book and a stimulating read. About the Author Sarah Young is a postdoctoral researcher in the Media and Communication Department at Erasmus University.Freyja McCreery is a freelance researcher and PhD candidate.