Asia Pacific University Library catalogue


New media : theories and practices of digitextuality / edited by Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell. - New York : Routledge, 2003. - xxx, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - AFI film readers .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: introduction xi -- issues in the theory and practice of media convergence -- Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell --part one: digitextual deconstructions --1. digitextuality and click theory: 3 -- theses on convergence media in the digital age -- Anna Everett --2. the radio as an apparatus of communication 29 -- Bertolt Brecht --3. invisible media 33 -- Laura U. Marks --4. exit meat: 47 -- digital bodies in a virtual world -- Mischa Peters --part two: digitextual aesthetics --5. space invaders: 63 -- thoughts on technology and the production of culture -- Peter Lunenfeld --6. the poetics of augmented space 75 -- Lev Manovich --7. too many notes: 93 -- computers, complexity, and culture in voyager -- George E. Lewis -- 8. the stories digital tools tell 107 -- Tarleton Gillespie -- part three: prefiguring digitextuality --9. second-shift media aesthetics: 127 -- programming, interactivity, and user flows -- John T. Caldwell -- 10. narrative mapping 145 -- stephen nlamber -- 11. real-time fairy tales: 159 -- cinema prefiguring digital anxiety -- Mark Williams -- 12. tulip theory 179 -- Jeffrey Sconce --part four: digitextual practices -- 13. net ratings: 197 -- defining a new medium by the old, measuring -- internet audiences -- Karen S. F. Buzzard -- 14. flashing digital animations: 209 -- pixar's digital aesthetic -- Katherine Sarafian -- 15. log on: 225 -- the oxygen media research project -- Constance Penley, Lisa Parks, and Anna Everett -- 16. from Barbie to mortal kombat: 243 -- further reflections -- Henry Jenkins -- 17. endnotes for a theory of convergence 255 -- Joe Amato.

0415939968 (pbk.) 9780415939966 (pbk.)

2002015999


Visual communication.
Digital media.

P93.5 / .N48 2003

302.23 / NEW 2003