ReadMe! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge. Filtered by Nettime (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · cyberspace, internet, labour, market economy, media art, media culture, media theory, net art, net culture, network culture, software, sound recording, technology
“A compilation of writings and debates from the Nettime newsgroup and internet mailing list. This book documents the debates over emerging media technologies that are currently reshaping society. What are the liberatory potentials? Where are the points of political conflict and class struggle in this new culture? What are the pitfalls of new technology? Read Me! provides the beginnings of this discussion and an outline for what has become a continuing forum on the Net.”
Edited by Josephine Bosma, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Ted Byfield, Matthew Fuller, Geert Lovink, Diana McCarty, Pit Schultz Felix Stalder, McKenzie Wark, and Faith Wilding
Publisher: Autonomedia, February 1999
ISBN: 1570270899, 978-1570270895
556 pages
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W. J. Thomas Mitchell: Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, ideology, image, literary criticism, media theory, visual culture
“Mitchell undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1986
ISBN 0226532291, 9780226532295
x+226 pages
Reviews: Lee B. Brown (The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1986), Roger Seamon (Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1986), Patrick Maynard (London Review of Books, 1988), Anna J. Smith (Philosophy and Literature, 1988), Stefan Beyst (2010).
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Comment (0)Robert Hassan, Julian Thomas (eds.): The New Media Theory Reader (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · free software, hacking, information society, information technology, intellectual property, interactivity, media theory, new media, public broadcasting, software, theory
The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods; the changing experience of space and time; the political consequences of new communication technologies; and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models.
The New Media Theory Reader brings together key readings on new media ndash; what it is, where it came from, how it affects our lives, and how it is managed. Using work from media studies, cultural history and cultural studies, economics, law, and politics, the essays encourage readers to pay close attention to the ‘new’ in new media, as well as considering it as a historical phenomenon. The Reader features a general introduction as well as an editors’ introduction to each thematic section, and a useful summary of each reading.
The New Media Theory Reader is an indispensable text for students on new media, technology, sociology and media studies courses.
Essays by: Andrew Barry, Benjamin R Barber, James Boyle, James Carey, Benjamin Compaine, Noam Cook, Andrew Graham, Nicola Green, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ian Hunter, Kevin Kelly, Heejin Lee, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Liebenau, Jessica Litman, Lev Manovich, Michael Marien Robert W. McChesney David E. Nye, Bruce M Owen Lyman Ray Patterson, Kevin Robins, Ithiel de Sola Pool, David Saunders, Richard Stallman, Cass R. Sunstein, Jeremy Stein, McKenzie Wark, Frank Webster, Dugald Williamson.
Publisher Open University Press, McGraw-Hill International, 2006
ISBN 0335217109, 9780335217106
326 pages
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