Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface
The Graphic User Interface, or GUI, is the adhesive centre of today’s screen entertainment web. From films and television to apps and videogames, it holds together a multitude of media and shapes the way they are accessed, organised, created, consumed, and manipulated. However, it does not do so without leaving viscous traces, and Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface examines this residue and its consequences, revealing how the GUI exerts a powerful influence on contemporary media.
Focusing on aesthetics and adopting a media agnostic approach, Jones explores cinema, streaming platforms, television, user-generated content, videogames, apps, virtual reality, VFX, design software, and more in order to show how they cross-pollinate with one another and with our desktop interfaces. The result is a new approach for analysing convergent media in the digital era.

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Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface
The Graphic User Interface, or GUI, is the adhesive centre of today’s screen entertainment web. From films and television to apps and videogames, it holds together a multitude of media and shapes the way they are accessed, organised, created, consumed, and manipulated. However, it does not do so without leaving viscous traces, and Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface examines this residue and its consequences, revealing how the GUI exerts a powerful influence on contemporary media.
Focusing on aesthetics and adopting a media agnostic approach, Jones explores cinema, streaming platforms, television, user-generated content, videogames, apps, virtual reality, VFX, design software, and more in order to show how they cross-pollinate with one another and with our desktop interfaces. The result is a new approach for analysing convergent media in the digital era.

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Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface

Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface

by Nick Jones
Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface

Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface

by Nick Jones

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Overview

The Graphic User Interface, or GUI, is the adhesive centre of today’s screen entertainment web. From films and television to apps and videogames, it holds together a multitude of media and shapes the way they are accessed, organised, created, consumed, and manipulated. However, it does not do so without leaving viscous traces, and Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface examines this residue and its consequences, revealing how the GUI exerts a powerful influence on contemporary media.
Focusing on aesthetics and adopting a media agnostic approach, Jones explores cinema, streaming platforms, television, user-generated content, videogames, apps, virtual reality, VFX, design software, and more in order to show how they cross-pollinate with one another and with our desktop interfaces. The result is a new approach for analysing convergent media in the digital era.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399522779
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 05/31/2025
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Nick Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Digital Culture at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Introduction
  1. Screen Mirroring
  2. Interface Realism
  3. Listen Mode
  4. Seamless Composites
  5. Graphic Urban Interface
  6. Programming Matter
  7. Empathy Machines
Conclusion: Stuck In
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