| Description |
xv, 554 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 already applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, the contributors to this book call for "second encounters," or a revisiting. Digital media are not only objects of analysis but also instruments for the development of innovative perspectives on both media and culture. Drawing on insights from literary theory, semiotics, philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, media studies, sociology, and education, the contributors construct new positions from which to observe digital media in fresh and meaningful ways. Throughout they explore to what extent interpretation of and experimentation with digital media can inform theory. It also asks how our understanding of digital media can contribute to our understanding of social and cultural change." "The book is organized in four sections: Education and Interdisciplinarity, Design and Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Interpretation, and Social Theory and Ethics. The topics include the effects on reading of the multimodal and multisensory aspects of the digital environment, the impact of practice on the medium of theory, how digital media are dissolving the boundaries between leisure and work, and the impact of cyberspace on established ethical principles."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Digital media.
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Digital media -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Digital communications.
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Digital media -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Liestøl, Gunnar.
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Morrison, Andrew, 1960-
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Rasmussen, Terje.
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| LC no. |
2002035064 |
| ISBN |
0262122561 alkaline paper |
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9780262122566 alkaline paper |
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0262621924 paperback |
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9780262621922 paperback |
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