In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of...
Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Do Democracies Win Their Wars? – An International Security Reader
Вес: **440**
Ширина упаковки: **155**
Высота упаковки: **20**
Глубина упаковки: **235**
Автор на обложке: **Michael E. Brown**
Тип обложки: **Мягкая обложка**
ISBN: **9780262515900**
Год выпуска: **2011**
Количество страниц: **336**
Язык издания: **Английский**
First Person – New Media as Story, Performance and Game
Вес: **501**
Тип обложки (Переплет): **Мягкая обложка**
Количество страниц: **350**
Год выпуска: **2006**
Автор на обложке: **Noah Wardrip–fruin**
ISBN: **9780262731751**
Язык издания: **Английский**
