Synopses & Reviews
andlt;Pandgt;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.andlt;/Pandgt;
Review
"This book is a highly significant argument, on multiple fronts, for an innovator-centered theory of innovation. It offers a reconceptualization of the task of the humanities in the twenty-first century, away from negativity, critical distance, and the backward glance, and into positive, engaged, and future-oriented enabling. The scholarship throughout is remarkable." Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Review
"Wide ranging and provocative, Digital Media Revisited offers a much needed corrective to current thinking on the subject. The essays cover important and diverse territory, from aesthetics to ethics, and are sure to inaugurate a fruitful new wave of criticism." Larry Friedlander, Stanford University
Review
"In bringing together an outstanding group of international and interdisciplinary authors, the editors of Digital Media Revisited outdo themselves. Each author and chapter probe crucial issues surrounding new media and, in doing so, offer fresh insights from multiple angles. A provocative and necessary read for anyone interested in our shared, digital future!" Gail E. Hawisher, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Review
"Digital Media Revisited contends that innovative work in and analysis of the digital media domain can and should lead to innovative theory, in turn informing development and cross-fertilization in culture and society. Its impressive array of international scholarship and practice-based research spans leading thinking from semiotic theory to play and interactive systems. The book emphasizes social responsibility, human-centered applications and communication, and emergent intermedia research environments (without neglecting established institutions). Altogether, Liestøl and his colleagues offer a stimulating, comprehensible and thematically coherent overview of forward-looking thinking about digital media." Maureen Thomas, Creative Director, Cambridge University Moving Image Studio
Synopsis
Interdisciplinary essays on the relationship between practice and theory in new media.
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.
Synopsis
Interdisciplinary essays on the relationship between practice and theory in new media.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Gunnar Liestøl is associate professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo.
Andrew Morrison is an Associate Professor at InterMedia, University of Oslo.
Terje Rasmussen is a Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo.
Table of 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 B²gh 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 Gr²gaard -- Rhetorical convergence: studying web media / Anders Fagerjord -- Computer games and the Ludic structure of interpretation / Eva Liest²l -- "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 Liest²l -- 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.