| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Electronic mediations ; 28 |
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Electronic mediations ; v. 28.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Tactical media as virtuosic performance -- Border hacks : electronic civil disobedience and the politics of immigration -- Virtual war : information visualization and persuasive gaming -- Speculative capital : Black shoals and the visualizing of finance |
| Summary |
Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections between the world's corporate and political elite created by Josh On and Futurefarmers, to Black Shoals, a financial market visualization that is intended to be both aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embrace a broad r |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-186) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Simulation methods
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Digital media.
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Computer simulation.
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Computer Simulation
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simulation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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ART -- Digital.
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Computer simulation
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Digital media
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Mass media -- Simulation methods
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Neue Medien
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Protest
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816667987 |
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0816667985 |
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0816651507 |
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9780816651504 |
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0816651515 |
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9780816651511 |
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