Joanna Zylinska examines the ethical challenges presented by technology to the allegedly sacrosant idea of the human & makes a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of
How to understand our interactions with technology: considering the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of the user experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Jus…
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man, "" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in one multimedia education…
"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph…
"A look at how social media shape discourses around pregnancy and motherhood"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Interactive fiction--the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure--has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hypertext fiction and the conversational programs known as chatterbots. Twisty Little Passages (the title refers to a maze in Adventure, the first interactive fiction) is the first book-length consideration of this…
A critical mapping of the multiplicities of Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi -- composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, inventor, collector, futurologist.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Cain chronicles twentieth-century schools' experiments with screen media and investigates the contests over citizenship and civic education that emerged in reaction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.