The study of new media has developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms and has generated a great deal of excitement, hype, and confusion. The New Media & Technocultures Reader gathers texts which map the cultural implications of new media, encapsulating and challenging key debates, theoretical positions, and approaches to research.The New Media & Technocultures Reader offers students further reading on and exploration of key issues and topics raised in the textbook New Media: A Critical Introduction. The Reader draws on various disciplinary stances (including visual culture; media and cultural history; media theory; media production; philosophy and the history of the sciences; political economy and sociology), offering readers a rich and interdisciplinary resource. Critical and accessible editorial commentary guides the reader between the extracts and through the debates.
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The New Media & Technocultures Reader presents key texts which encapsulate and / or challenge and extend the issues, debates and theoretical positions that do the most work in mapping and critically addressing the cultural implications of new media.
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AcknowledgementsPermissionsIntroductionPART 1: Genealogies of Technoculture1.1 The first and second industrial revolutionNorbert Wiener1.2 The ontology of the enemy: Norbert Wiener and the cybernetic visionPeter Galison1.3 Dazzling the multitude: original media spectaclesCarolyn Marvin1.4 Selected material from Computer Lib / Dream MachinesTed Nelson1.5 From Kaleidoscomaniac to cybernerd: Towards an archaeology of the media Erkki Huhtamo1.6 Introduction to War in the Age of Intelligent MachinesManuel de LandaPART 2: Models of Technology, Media and Culture2.1 The labour process and alienation in machinery and scienceKarl Marx2.2 Selected material from Understanding Media: the extensions of man (‘The medium is the message’, ‘Media as translators’, ‘The typewriter’)Marshall McLuhan2.3 The technology and the societyRaymond Williams2.4 The proliferation of hybrids Bruno Latour2.5 The vanishing point of communicationJean Baudrillard2.6 ‘The informatics of domination’ and ‘Women in the integrated circuit’ from A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway2.7 Balance program for desiring machinesFeliz GuattariPART 3: Bodies and Agents3.1 Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifactsBruno Latour3.2 Cyborgs, coyotes and dogs: a kinship of feminist figurations / there are always more things going on than you thought: methodologies as thinking technologiesDonna Haraway3.3 Feedback and cybernetics: reimaging the body in the age of the cyborgDavid Tomas3.4 Creatures on the InternetSarah Kember3.5 Intelligent AgencyJ. Macgregor Wise3.6 Female Quake players and the politics of identityHelen KennedyPART 4: Texts, Forms, Codes4.1 VirtualityBenjamin Woolley4.2 InteractivityPierre Levy4.3 The adventure gameEspen Aarseth4.4 Selected material from The Language of New Media (‘The database’ and ‘Navigable space’)Lev Manovich4.5 Invisible mediaLaura U. Marks4.6 Theses on distributed aestheticsGeert Lovinck4.7 "Hacking" the iPod: A Look Inside Apple’s Portable Music PlayerGabrielle Consentino4.8 Listening in cyberspaceMark Katz4.9 Hybrid Cinema: The Mask, Masques and Tex AveryNorman Klein4.10 Photography in the age of electronic imagingMartin Lister4.11 ‘Eyeball’ from Pilgrim in the Microworld: eye, mind and the essence of video skillDavid Sudnow PART 5: Network Culture5.1 Trading sexpics on IRC : embodiment and authenticity on the internetDon Slater5.2 Free labourTiziana Terranova5.3 Gaming lifeworlds: social play in persistent environmentsT.L. Taylor5.4 Technoscience in hypertextDonna Haraway5.5 Updating tactical mediaGeert Lovinck5.6 Indymedia.org: a new communications commonsDorothy KiddPART 6: Everyday Media Technocultures6.1 The domestic ecology of objectsElaine Lally6.2 Domesticating New Media: A discussion on locating mobile mediaLarissa Hjorth6.3 Bergson’s iPod? The cognitive management of everyday lifeMichael Bull6.4 Everyday (virtual) lifeMark Poster6.5 Japan’s mobile technoculture: the productions of a cellular playscape and its cultural implicationsMichal Daliot-Bul6.6 Playspaces, childhood and videogamesShanly Dixon & Sandra Weber 6.7 Mobilizing imagination in everyday play: the case of Japanese media mixesMizuko ItoIndex
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ISBN
9780415469142
Publisert
2011-02-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
980 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
514

Biographical note

Seth Giddings and Martin Lister are members of the Department of Culture, Media and Drama, in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of the West of England, Bristol.