Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new:
they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web,
virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from
earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles.
In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard
Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that
challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media
achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to,
rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective
painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process
of refashioning 'remediation,' and they note that earlier
media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated
painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and
television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Review text:
'The authors do a splendid job of showing precisely how
technologies like computer games, digital photography, film
television, the Web, and virtual reality all turn on the mutually
constructive strategies of generating immediacy and making users
hyperaware of the media themselves. . . . The authors lay out a
provocative theory of contemporary selfhood, one that draws on and
modifies current notions of the lsquo;virtualrsquo; and
lsquo;networkedrsquo; human subject. Clearly written and not overly
technical, this book will interest general readers, students, and
scholars engaged with current trends in technology.'
Ausstattung/Bilder: XI, 295 p. w. b&w ill., 17 col. ill.
Seitenzahl: 307
Englisch
Abmessung: 231mm x 177mm x 19mm
Gewicht: 520g
ISBN-13: 9780262522793
ISBN-10: 0262522799
Best.Nr.: 09569491
"The authors do a splendid job of showing precisely how technologies like computer games, digital photography, film television, the Web, and virtual reality all turn on the mutually constructive strategies of generating immediacy and making users hyperaware of the media themselves... The authors lay out a provocative theory of contemporary selfhood, one that draws on and modifies current notions of the 'virtual' and 'networked' human subject. Clearly written and not overly technical, this book will interest general readers, students, and scholars engaged with current trends in technology." M. Uebel, Choice
Jay David Bolter is Wesley Professor of New Media and Director, Center for New Media Research and Education in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech University. Richard Grusin is Professor andChair of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.
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