Theories of the new media : a historical perspective

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Theories of the new media : a historical perspective

edited and with an introduction by John Thornton Caldwell

Athlone Press, 2000

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Bibliography: p. 309-316

Includes index

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Presenting an analysis of the cultural impact of new technologies, this text anchors contemporary dicusssions of the digital future within a firm critical tradition of the media-arts, society and culture.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: theorizing the digital landrush, Caldwell. Part 1 Theorizing technology: the technology and the society, Williams
  • constituents of a theory of media, Enzensberger
  • breakages limited, Winston
  • the work of culture in the age of cybernetic systems, Nichols. Part 2 Producing technoculture: the theory of the virtual class, Kroker, weinstein
  • the scene of the screen - envisioning cinematic and electronic presence, Sobchack
  • sex, death, and machinery, or how I fell in love with my prosthesthesis, Stone. Part 3 Consuming technoculture: new technologies, audience measurements and the tactics of television consumption, Ang
  • the circuit of technology - gender, identity and power, Cockburn
  • moral combat and computer game girls, Cunningham
  • television and the Internet, Seiter. Part 4 Boundaries, identities, practice: hacking away at the counter-culture, Ross
  • Beyond the nationalist panoptical - the experience of cyberpublics in India, Sundaram
  • the virtual Barrio "at" the other frontier (or the Chicago internata), Gomez-Pena.

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