The new media reader

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort

838 pages, parution le 26/09/2003

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This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were originally published between World War II--when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared--and the emergence of the World Wide Web--when they entered the mainstream of public life.

The texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. The contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo Calvino, Marshall McLuhan, Billy Klüver, Jean Baudrillard, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Bill Viola, Sherry Turkle, Richard Stallman, Brenda Laurel, Langdon Winner, Robert Coover, and Tim Berners-Lee. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. One example is a video record of Douglas Engelbart's first presentation of the mouse, word processor, hyperlink, computer-supported cooperative work, video conferencing, and the dividing up of the screen we now call non-overlapping windows; another is documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art installation.

Perspectives on New Media : Two Introductions
The Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate
Collective Media, Personal Media
Design, Activity, and Action
Revolution, Resistance, and the Launch of the Web
Permissions
Index

L'auteur - Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a creative writing fellow at Brown University.

L'auteur - Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort is a PhD student in computer and information sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort
Parution	26/09/2003
Nb. de pages	838
Format	20,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1585g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262232272
ISBN13	978-0-262-23227-2