Title & Author:

Digital media revisited : theoretical and conceptual innovation in digital domains / edited by Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison, and Terje Rasmussen.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2004.

Description:

554 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theory and practice in new media studies / Jay David Bolter -- The paradigm is more important than the purchase: educational innovation and hypertext theory / George P. Landow -- The challenge of digital learning environments in higher education: the need for a merging of perspectives on standardization / Jon Lanestedt -- The Internet and its double: voice in electracy / Gregory L. Ulmer -- From oracy to electracies: hypernarrative, place, and multimodal discourses in learning / Andrew Morrison -- The reading senses: designing texts for multisensory systems / Maribeth Back -- Acting machines / Peter Bøgh Andersen -- Performing the MUD adventure / Ragnhild Tronstad -- Digital art and design poetics: the poetical potentials of projection and interaction / Lars Qvortrup -- Low tech-high concept: digital media, art, and the state of the arts / Stian Grøgaard -- Rhetorical convergence: studying web media / Anders Fagerjord -- Computer games and the Ludic structure of interpretation / Eva Liestøl -- "Next level": women's digital activism through gaming / Mary Flanagan -- "Gameplay": from synthesis to analysis (and vice versa): topics of conceptualization and construction in digital media / Gunnar Liestøl -- We all want to change the world: the ideology of innovation in digital media / Espen Aarseth -- On distributed society: the Internet as a guide to a sociological understanding of communication / Terje Rasmussen -- Proper distance: toward an ethics for cyberspace / Roger Silverstone -- "Making voices": new media technologies, disabilities, and articulation / Ingunn Moser and John Law -- The good, the bad, and the virtual: ethics in the age of information / Mark Poster.

Summary:

Arguing that 'first encounters' have applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, this work calls for 'second encounters', or a revisiting. Digital media, it shows, are not only objects of analysis, but also instruments for the development of innovative perspectives.

ISBN:

0262621924 (pbk.)
9780262621922

Subject:

Digital media Social aspects.
Médias numériques Aspect social.
Media Studies.

Added entries:

Liestøl, Gunnar.
Morrison, Andrew.
Rasmussen, Terje.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233223
Call No.: HM851 .D5 2004
Status: Available