The Long History Of New Media

Author : David W. Park,Nick Jankowski,Nicholas W. Jankowski,Steve Jones
Publisher : Digital Formations
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Digital media
ISBN : 1433114410

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The Long History of New Media by David W. Park,Nick Jankowski,Nicholas W. Jankowski,Steve Jones Pdf

This volume examines the role of history in the study of new media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. Furthermore, the new is constructed with an eye on the future, or more correctly, an eye on what we think the future will be. Chapters by eminent scholars address the connection between historical consideration and new media. Some assess the historical descriptions of the development of new media; others hinge on the issue of newness as it relates to existing practices in media history. Remaining essays address the shifting patterns of storage at work in media inscription, as they relate to the practice of history, and to the past and contemporary cultural formations. Together they offer a ground-breaking assessment of the long history of new media, clearly recognizing that the new media of today will be the traditional media of tomorrow, and that an emphasis on the history of the future sheds light on what this newness can be said to represent.

Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Thomas Keenan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Digital media
ISBN : 0415942241

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New Media, Old Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Thomas Keenan Pdf

In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.

Author : Gabriele Balbi,Paolo Magaudda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351807234

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A History of Digital Media by Gabriele Balbi,Paolo Magaudda Pdf

From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital media and highlighting the interactions between political, business, technical, social, and cultural elements throughout history. With a global scope and an intermedia focus, this book enables students and scholars alike to deepen their critical understanding of digital communication, adding an understudied historical layer to the examination of digital media and societies. Discussion questions, a timeline, and previously unpublished tables and maps are included to guide readers as they learn to contextualize and critically analyze the digital technologies we use every day.

Author : Marshall T. Poe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139495578

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A History of Communications by Marshall T. Poe Pdf

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

Author : Steve Dixon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780262303323

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Digital Performance by Steve Dixon Pdf

The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts. The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, and analyzes the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this form of new media art. Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork), and draws parallels between contemporary work and the theories and practices of Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, Futurism, and multimedia pioneers of the twentieth century. For a theoretical perspective on digital performance, Dixon draws on the work of Philip Auslander, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others. To document and analyze contemporary digital performance practice, Dixon considers changes in the representation of the body, space, and time. He considers virtual bodies, avatars, and digital doubles, as well as performances by artists including Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Blast Theory, and Eduardo Kac. He investigates new media's novel approaches to creating theatrical spectacle, including virtual reality and robot performance work, telematic performances in which remote locations are linked in real time, Webcams, and online drama communities, and considers the "extratemporal" illusion created by some technological theater works. Finally, he defines categories of interactivity, from navigational to participatory and collaborative. Dixon challenges dominant theoretical approaches to digital performance—including what he calls postmodernism's denial of the new—and offers a series of boldly original arguments in their place.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000058469170

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A Social History of England by Asa Briggs Pdf

Author : Lisa Gitelman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262572477

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Always Already New by Lisa Gitelman Pdf

In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison's first phonographs and the Pentagon's first distributed digital network, the ARPANET, Gitelman points suggestively toward similarities that underlie the cultural definition of records (phonographic and not) at the end of the nineteenth century and the definition of documents (digital and not) at the end of the twentieth. As a result, Always Already New speaks to present concerns about the humanities as much as to the emergent field of new media studies. Records and documents are kernels of humanistic thought, after all—part of and party to the cultural impulse to preserve and interpret. Gitelman's argument suggests inventive contexts for "humanities computing" while also offering a new perspective on such traditional humanities disciplines as literary history. Making extensive use of archival sources, Gitelman describes the ways in which recorded sound and digitally networked text each emerged as local anomalies that were yet deeply embedded within the reigning logic of public life and public memory. In the end Gitelman turns to the World Wide Web and asks how the history of the Web is already being told, how the Web might also resist history, and how using the Web might be producing the conditions of its own historicity.

Author : Nick Hall,John Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351247399

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Hands on Media History by Nick Hall,John Ellis Pdf

Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work and how we work with them. Essays in this collection explore the difficult questions of reconstruction and historical memory, and the issues of equipment degradation and loss. Hands on Media History is concerned with both the professional and the amateur, the producers and the users, providing a new perspective on one of the modern era’s most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day? Engaging and enlightening, this collection is a key reference for students and scholars of media studies, digital humanities, and for those interested in models of museum and research practice.

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134766338

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Media,Technology and Society by Brian Winston Pdf

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.

Author : Jesse Drew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135117559

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A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media by Jesse Drew Pdf

The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international organization and media practices. By examining the social and technological roots that influence current media evolution, Drew allows readers to understand not only the Youtubes and Facebooks of today, but to anticipate the trajectory of the technologies to come. Beginning with a look at the inherent weaknesses of the U.S. broadcasting model of mass media, Drew outlines the early 1960s and 1970s experiments in grassroots media, where artists and activists began to re-engineer electronic technologies to target local communities and underserved audiences. From these local projects emerged national and international communications projects, creating production models, social networks and citizen expectations that would challenge traditional means of electronic media and cultural production. Drew’s perspective puts the social and cultural use of the user at the center, not the particular media form. Thus the structure of the book focuses on the local, the national, and the global desire for communications, regardless of the means.

Author : Jason Steinhauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030851170

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History, Disrupted by Jason Steinhauer Pdf

The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History as a discipline. This is the first book to chronicle how and why it matters. Why does History matter at all? What role do history and the past play in our democracy? Our economy? Our understanding of ourselves? How do questions of history intersect with today’s most pressing debates about technology; the role of the media; journalism; tribalism; education; identity politics; the future of government, civilization, and the planet? At the start of a new decade, in the midst of growing political division around the world, this information is critical to an engaged citizenry. As we collectively grapple with the effects of technology and its capacity to destabilize our societies, scholars, educators and the general public should be aware of how the Web and social media shape what we know about ourselves - and crucially, about our past.

Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Anna Watkins Fisher,Thomas Keenan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Konferenzschrift
ISBN : 1138021105

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New Media, Old Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Anna Watkins Fisher,Thomas Keenan Pdf

This much-expanded and updated second edition of New Media, Old Media brings together original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Touching on topics including media archaeology, archives, software studies, surveillance, big data, social media, organized networks, digital art, and the Internet of Things, this newly revised critical anthology is essential reading for anyone studying the cultural impact of new and digital media.

Author : Asa Briggs,Peter Burke
Publisher : Polity
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745635118

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A Social History of the Media by Asa Briggs,Peter Burke Pdf

It will be an ideal text for students in history, media and cultural studies and journalism, but it will also appeal to a wide general readership.

Author : Mark Cronlund Anderson,Carmen L. Robertson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554063

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Seeing Red by Mark Cronlund Anderson,Carmen L. Robertson Pdf

The first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism.

Author : Asa Briggs,Peter Burke,Espen Ytreberg
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509533729

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A Social History of the Media by Asa Briggs,Peter Burke,Espen Ytreberg Pdf

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. This fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest developments in the field. Additionally, an expanded introduction explores the wide range of secondary literature and theory that inform the study of media history today, and a new eighth chapter surveys the revolutionary media developments of the twenty-first century, including in particular the rise of social and participatory media and the penetration of these technologies into every sphere of social and private life. Avoiding technological determinism and rejecting assumptions of straightforward evolutionary progress, this book brings out the rich and varied histories of communication media. In an age of fast-paced media developments, a thorough understanding of media history is more important than ever, and this text will continue to be the first choice for students and scholars across the world.