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The arc and the machine : narrative and new media / Caroline Bassett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bassett, Caroline, author.
- Series:
- EBL-Schweitzer
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital media.
- Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- Online-ausg.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 'The Arc and the Machine' is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.
- Contents:
- 9780719073427; 9780719073427; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Narrative machines; 2 'Beautiful patterns of bits': cybernetics, interfaces, new media; 3 Those with whom the archive dwells; 4 Annihilating all that's made?Legends of virtual community; 5 'Just because' stories:on Elephant; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847796493
- 1847796494
- 9781781700907
- 1781700907
- 9781847791610
- 1847791611
- OCLC:
- 818847264
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