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Book SynopsisNew Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the backdrop of earlier media such as television, film, photography, and print. The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims; political, social, ethical, made about the digital age. Committed to historical research and to theoretical innovation, they suggest that in the light of digital programmability, seemingly forgotten moments in the history of the media we glibly call old can be rediscovered and transformed. The many topics explored in provocative volume include websites, webcams, the rise and fall of dotcom mania, Internet journalism, the open source movement, and computer viruses.
New Media, Old Media is a foundational text for general reader
Table of Contents
Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media? Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Part I: The Archaeology of New Media
1. Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures? Thomas Elsaesser
2. Electricity Made Visible, Geoffrey Batchen
3. "Tones from out of Nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the Archaeology of Synthetic Sound, Thomas Y. Levin
Part II: Archives
4. Memex Revisited, Vannevar Bush
5. Out of File, Out of Mind, Cornelia Vismann
6. Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metephorical in Multi-Media Space? Wolfgang Ernst
7. Breaking Down: Godard's Histories, Richard Dienst
8. Ordering Law, Judging History: Deliberations on Court TV, Lynne Joyrich
Part III: Power-Code
9. The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming, Wolfgang Hagen
10. Science as Open Source Process, Friedrich Kittler
11. Cold War Networks or Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg, Friedrich Kittler
12. Protocol vs. Institutionalizaion, Alexander R. Galloway
13. Reload: Liveness, Mobility, and the Web, Tara McPherson
14. Generation Flash, Lev Manovich
15. Viruses Are Good for You, Julian Dibbell
16. The Imaginary of the Artificial: Automata, Models, Machinics--On Promiscuous Modeling as Precondition for Poststructuralist Ontology, Anders Michelsen
Part IV: Network Events
17. Information, Crisis, Catastrophe, Mary Ann Doane
18. The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectural [version 3.0], McKenzie Wark
19. Imperceptible Perceptions in our Technological Modernity, Arvind Rajagopal
20. Deep Europe: A History of the Syndicate Network, Geert Lovink
21. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael
Part V: Theorizing "New" Media
22. Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Lisa Nakamura
23. Network Subjects: or, The Ghost is the Message, Nicholas Mirzoeff
24. Modes of Digital Identification: Virtual Technologies and Webcam Cultures, Ken Hillis
25. Hypertext Avant La Lettre, Peter Krapp
26. Network Fever, Mark Wigley
Afterword: The Demystifica-hic-tion of In-hic-formation, Thomas Keenan
