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Since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by the narratives we tell each other via various media, the media studies discipline needs a genuinely transmedial narratology. Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction of storyworlds as well as on prototypical forms of narratorial and subjective representation. It provides not only a method for the analysis of salient transmedial strategies of narrative representation in contemporary films, comics, and video games but also a theoretical frame within which medium-specific approaches from literary and film narratology, from comics studies and game studies, and from various other strands of media and cultural studies may be employed to further our understanding of narratives across media. Jan-No l Thon is a research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of T bingen, Germany. 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The book thus reflects on both the theoretical and the methodological implications of “AI aesthetics,” while also demonstrating that this is still very much an emerging research field and that no dominant conceptualization of “AI aesthetics” has yet emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering its decidedly international and interdisciplinary scope, \u003ci\u003eAI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to scholars and students within media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, philosophy, art history, visual culture studies, digital humanities, and critical AI studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Open Access version of this book, available at http:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111134753041,"sku":"NGR9781041148456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52480757367057,"sku":"NLS9781041148456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52849273667857,"sku":"NIN9781041148456","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781041148456.jpg?v=1757416755"},{"product_id":"postdigitale-asthetik-book-jan-nol-thon-9783111638324","title":"Postdigitale Ästhetik","description":"Der Begriff des 'Postdigitalen' bezeichnet nicht ein Verschwinden des Digitalen, sondern vielmehr eine Reihe von einschl gigen Ver nderungen unseres Umgangs mit zunehmend ubiquit ren digitalen Technologien, Praktiken und Erfahrungsr umen, die zu einer abnehmenden Salienz der Unterscheidung zwischen 'dem Digitalen' und 'dem Nicht-Digitalen' gef hrt haben. 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