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New Media Reader

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ISBN-10: 0262232278

ISBN-13: 9780262232272

Edition: 2003

Authors: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort

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This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media.
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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/14/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 840
Size: 8.31" wide x 9.31" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 3.652
Language: English

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of four collections published by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader (2003); with Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2004), Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007), and Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2009).

Nick Montfort is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT and the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009).

Advisors
Preface: The New Media Reader, A User's Manual
Acknowledgments
Perspectives on New Media: Two Introductions
Inventing the Medium
New Media from Borges to HTML
The Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
As We May Think (1945)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
Men, Machines, and the World About (1954)
Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
"Happenings" in the New York Scene (1961)
The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin (1963)
From Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962)
Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)
The Construction of Change (1964)
A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate (1965)
Six Selections by the Oulipo (1961-1981)
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Yours for the Telling
A Brief History of the Oulipo
For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature
Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment
Prose and Anticombinatorics
Collective Media, Personal Media
Two Selections
The Medium is the Message, 1964 (from Understanding Media)
The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society, 1969 (from The Gutenberg Galaxy)
Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology
From "The Garden Party", Billy Kluver, 1961 From 9 Evenings, E.A.T., 1966 [Press Release], E.A.T., 1966
The Pavillion Billy Kluver, 1972
Cybernated Art (1966)
A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect (1968)
From Software--Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art (1970)
Requiem for the Media (1972)
The Technology and the Society (1974)
From Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1970-1974)
From Theatre of the Oppressed (1974)
From Soft Architecture Machines (1975)
From Computer Power and Human Reason (1976)
Responsive Environments (1977)
Personal Dynamic Media (1977)
From A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Design, Activity, and Action
From Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980)
"Put-That-There": Voice and Gesture at the Graphics Interface (1980)
Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive (from Literary Machines) (1981)
Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space? (1982)
The Endless Chain (from The Media Monopoly) (1983)
Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages (1983)
Video Games and Computer Holding Power (from The Second Self) (1984)
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985)
The GNU Manifesto (1985)
Using Computers: A Direction for Design (from Understanding Computers and Cognition) (1986)
Two Selections
The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them, 1991 (from Computers as Theater)Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World, 1986
Towards a New Classification of the Tele-Information Services (1986)
Revolution, Resistance, and the Launch of the Web
Mythinformation (1986)
From Plans and Situated Actions (1987)
Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts (1988)
The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems (1988)
The Fantasy Beyond Control (1990)
Cardboards Computers (1991)
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1991)
Seeing and Writing (from Writing Space) (1991)
You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media (1991)
The End of Books (1992)
Time Frames (from Understanding Comics) (1993)
Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy (1994)
Nonlinearity and Literary Theory (1994)
Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance (1994)
Critical Art Ensemble
The World Wide Web (1994)
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