Peter Lunenfeld (ed.): The Digital Dialectic. New Essays on New Media (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · collage, cyberspace, digital cinema, hypertext, image, interactivity, internet, pornography, screen, technology, virtual reality
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.
Publisher MIT Press, 2000
ISBN 0262621371, 9780262621373
320 pages
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Comments (2)Robert Donald Romanyshyn: Technology as Symptom and Dream (1989)
Filed under book | Tags: · perspective, pornography, psychoanalysis, technology
“The development of linear perspective in the 15th century represented a radical transformation in the European’s sense of the world, the body and the self. Robert Romanyshyn’s book examines the claim that the development of linear perspective vision was and is indispensable to the emergence of our technological world. It does so by telling the story of how an artistic technique has become a cultural habit of mind.”
Publisher Routledge, 1989
ISBN 0415007879, 9780415007870
254 pages
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Comments (3)Angharad N. Valdivia (ed.): A Companion to Media Studies (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, audience, cultural studies, feminism, gender, intellectual property, mass media, media studies, politics, popular culture, pornography, television, theory
A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields.
* Brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars in the most comprehensive collection on media studies to date.
* Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures.
* Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field.
* Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant.
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
ISBN 1405141743, 9781405141741
590 pages
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