{"652800":{"#nid":"652800","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bolter Co-authors Book on Augmented and Virtual Reality in Contemporary Media Culture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/jay-bolter\u0022\u003EJay Bolter\u003C\/a\u003E, James and Mary Wesley Chair in New Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, co-authored a book titled \u003Cem\u003EReality Media\u003C\/em\u003E published by MIT Press.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. As the latest media in a series of what the authors refer to as \u0026ldquo;reality media,\u0026rdquo; which place a layer of media between us and our perception of the world, AR and VR take their positions alongside film and television.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFellow co-authors include Maria Engberg, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malm\u0026ouml; University and affiliate researcher at Georgia Tech, and Blair MacIntyre, professor in the School of Interactive Computing. Bolter and MacIntyre also codirect the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.blairmacintyre.me\/site-archive\/ael-2015\/\u0022\u003EAugmented Environments Lab\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA digital version of \u003Cem\u003EReality Media\u003C\/em\u003E will also launch in the coming months and will invite readers to visit a series of virtual rooms featuring interactivity, 3-D models, videos, images, and texts that explore the themes of the book.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe book is available for purchase on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/reality-media\u0022\u003EMIT Press website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The book discusses how augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2021-11-12 17:17:23","changed_gmt":"2021-11-12 17:17:23","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652799":{"id":"652799","type":"image","title":"Jay Bolter","body":null,"created":"1636737265","gmt_created":"2021-11-12 17:14:25","changed":"1636737265","gmt_changed":"2021-11-12 17:14:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247647","name":"RS418_Jay Bolter.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS418_Jay%20Bolter.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS418_Jay%20Bolter.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":333925,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS418_Jay%20Bolter.jpeg?itok=4eRUXmEF"}}},"media_ids":["652799"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6840","name":"jay"},{"id":"189350","name":"bolter"},{"id":"4981","name":"augmented"},{"id":"4598","name":"virtual"},{"id":"3078","name":"reality"},{"id":"6301","name":"contemporary"},{"id":"1976","name":"Media"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Literature, Media, and Communication | School of Modern Languages\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cwhittle9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}