New Media, Old Media A History and Theory Reader

Name: New Media, Old Media A History and Theory Reader
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ISBN: 9780415942249

ISBN-10: 0415942241

ISBN-13: 9780415942249

Edition: 2006

Authors: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Thomas Keenan

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In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made today about the benefits and freedom of digital media.

Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Tom Keenan is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media?




Archaeology of Multi-Media



Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures?




Electricity Made Visible




"Tones from out of Nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the Archaeology of Synthetic Sound




Archives



Memex Revisited




Out of File, Out of Mind




Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space?




Breaking Down: Godard's Histories




Ordering Law, Judging History: Deliberations on Court TV




Power-Code



The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming Languages




Science as Open Source Process




Cold War Networks or Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg




Protocol vs. Institutionalization




Reload: Liveness, Mobility, and the Web




Generation Flash




Viruses Are Good for You




The Imaginary of the Artificial: Automata, Models, Machinics-On Promiscuous Modeling as Precondition for Poststructuralist Ontology




Network Events



Information, Crisis, Catastrophe




The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual [version 3.0]




Imperceptible Perceptions in Our Technological Modernity




Deep Europe: A History of the Syndicate Network




The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines




Theorizing "New" Media



Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction




Network Subjects: or, The Ghost is the Message




Modes of Digital Identification: Virtual Technologies and Webcam Cultures




Hypertext Avant La Lettre




Network Fever



Afterword: The Demystifica-hic-tion of In-hic-formation



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