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The digital dialectic : new essays on new media / edited by Peter Lunenfeld.
LIBRA QA76.9.C66 D54 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Leonardo books
- Leonardo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers and civilization.
- Digital media.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Computers linked to networks have created the first broadly used systems that allow individuals to create, distribute, and receive audiovisual content with the same box. They challenge theorists of digital culture to develop interaction-based models to replace the more primitive models that allow only passive use.
- The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.
- Contents:
- Unfinished business / Peter Lunenfeld
- Cyberspace dialectic / Michael Heim
- Ethical life of the digital aesthetic / Carol Gigliotti
- Condition of virtuality / N. Katherine Hayles
- From cybernation to interaction / Erkki Huhtamo
- Replacing place / William J. Mitchell
- Medium is the memory / Florian Brody
- Hypertext as collage-writing / George P. Landow
- What is digital cinema? / Lev Manovich
- We could be better ancestors than this / Bob Stein
- Musings on amusements in America, or What I did on my summer vacation / Brenda Laurel
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262122138
- OCLC:
- 39235692
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