Caroline Bassett

The arc and the machine (eBook, ePUB)

Narrative and new media

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796493
• Artikelnr.: 42963301

Autorenporträt

Caroline Bassett is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Narrative machines 2. 'Beautiful Patterns of Bits':
cybernetics, interfaces, new media Part 1: The thing itself: technology and
determination Part 2: Contemporary technocultures 3. Those with whom the
archive dwells 4. Annihilating all that's made? legends of virtual
community 5. 'Just Because' stories: On Elephant