Lunenfeld, Peter.

The Digital Dialectic : New Essays on New Media. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - Leonardo Series . - Leonardo Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I - The Real and the Ideal -- 1 - Unfinished Business -- 2 - The Cyberspace Dialectic -- 3 - The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic -- II - The Body and the Machine -- 4 - The Condition of Virtuality -- 5 - From Cybernation to Interaction: A Contribution to an Archaeology of Interactivity -- 6 - Replacing Place -- III - The Medium and the Message -- 7 - The Medium Is the Memory -- 8 - Hypertext as Collage-Writing -- 9 - What Is Digital Cinema? -- IV - The World and the Screen -- 10 - "We Could Be Better Ancestors Than This": Ethics and First Principles for the Art of the Digital Age -- 11 - Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation -- Notes -- Recommended Readings in New Media Theory -- Index.

How our visual and intellectual cultures are changed by the new interaction-based media and technologies.

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Computers and civilization.
Digital media.
Science -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.


Electronic books.

QA76.9.C66 -- D54 1999eb

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