Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, Ollie O. Oviedo (eds.): Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (2008)

Experts examine the ways digital tools affect social and cultural experience.

The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.

Contributors: Wendy Warren Austin, Jim Bizzocchi, Collin Gifford Brooke, Paul Cesarini, Veronique Chance, Johanna Drucker, Jenny Edbauer, Robert A. Emmons Jr., Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Richard Kahn, Douglas Kellner, Karla Saari Kitalong, Steve Mann, Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Jason Nolan, Julian Oliver, Mark Paterson, Isabel Pedersen, Michael Pennell, Joanna Castner Post, Teri Rueb, James J. Sosnoski, Lance Strate, Jason Swarts, Barry Wellman, Sean D. Williams, Jeremy Yuille.

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2008
ISBN 0816649782, 9780816649785
236 pages

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Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar (eds.): Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media (2006)

“Sign Here! features a number of articles from different fields, reaching from cultural and media studies to reaching from cultural and media studies to literature, film and art, and from philosophy and information studies to law and archival studies. Questions addressed in this book are: Will handwriting disappear in the age of new (digital) media? What happens to important cultural and legal concepts, such as original, copy, authenticity, reproducibility, uniqueness, and iterability? Where is the writing hand to be located if handwriting is performed not immediately ‘by hand’ but when it is (re)mediated by electronic or artistic media?”

Publisher Amsterdam University Press, 2006
Transformations in Art and Culture series
Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License
ISBN 9053568166, 9789053568163
247 pages

Keywords and phrases
weblogs, digital signature, Saul Bass, electronic signature, Martin Scorsese, Hurufi, Hitler diaries, Anne Frank House, tattoo, Arnold Dreyblatt, calligraphic, identity theft, Shirin Neshat, Eecke, handwriting, blogging, Jacques Derrida, Adolf Hitler, mise en abyme, digital media

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Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman (eds.): Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (2007)

This highly-innovative volume provides the first sustained academic focus on cyberliterature and cyberculture in Latin America, investigating the ways in which this form of cultural production is providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency. Despite cyberculture’s spread throughout the Hispanic diaspora, much of the influence of this new discipline on Latin American culture remains undocumented. This timely volume focuses on the inclusivity of this new scholarship and provides extensive geographical coverage of topics as diverse as Chicano border writing and Brazilian and Argentine cybercultural phenomena.

Publisher Liverpool University Press, 2007
ISBN 184631061X, 9781846310614
295 pages

Key terms: Zapatistas, posthuman, virtual communities, Rayuela, cyberspace, weblog, hypermedia, netwar, e-magazines, Cyberliterature, blog, Latin American literature, Mexico City, hypertext fiction, EZLN, Jorge Luis Borges, hacktivism, Latin American Cinema.

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