Tactical media / Rita Raley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raley, Rita.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 28.

Electronic mediations ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Simulation methods.

Mass media.

Digital media.

Computer simulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections between the world's corporate and political elite created by Josh On and Future farmers, to Black Shoals, a financial market visualization that is intended to be both aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embrace a

Contents:

Introduction: Tactical media as virtuosic performance

Border hacks : electronic civil disobedience and the politics of immigration

Virtual war : information visualization and persuasive gaming

Speculative capital : Black shoals and the visualizing of finance.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6798-5

OCLC:

437046084