{"product_id":"new-media-theories-and-practices-of-digitextuality-afi-film-readers-9780415939966","title":"New Media Theories and Practices of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from what we used to understand as mass media. In the face of such seismic shifts and ruptures, the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of film and TV studies are being shaken to their core. New Media demands a necessary rethinking of the field. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the scholars here outline new theses and conceptual frameworks capable of engaging the numerous facets of emergent digital technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  Acknowledgments  Introduction    Issues in the Theory and Practice of Media Convergence: Anna Everett and  John T. Caldwell    Part 1: Digitextual Deconstructions  1. Digitextuality and Click Theory: Theses on Convergence Media in the Digital Age:  Anna Everett  2. The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication:  Bertolt Brecht  3. Invisible Media:  Laura U. Marks  4. Exit Meat: Digital Bodies in a Virtual World:  Mischa Peters    Part 2: Digitextual Aesthetics  5. Space Invaders: Thoughts on Technology and the Production of Culture:  Peter Lunenfeld  6. The Poetics of Augmented Space:  Lev Manovich  7.Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity, and Culture in  Voyager :  George E. Lewis  8. The Stories Digital Tools Tell:  Tarleton Gillespie    Part 3: Pre-Figuring Digitextuality  9. Second Shift Media Aesthetics: Programming, Interactivity, and User Flows:  John T. Caldwell 10. Narrative Mapping:  Stephen Mamber  11. Real-Time Fairy Tales: Cinema Pre-Figuring Digital Anxiety:  Mark Williams  12. Digital Vapor\/ Tulip Theory:  Jeffrey Sconce    Part 4: Digitextual Practices  13. Net Ratings: Defining a New Medium by the Old, Measuring Internet Audiences:  Karen S.F. Buzzard  14. Flashing Digital Animations: Pixar's Digital Aesthetic:  Katherine Sarafian  15. Log On: Corporate Feminism and the Oxygen Media Research Project:  Constance Penley, Lisa Parks  and  Anna Everett  16. From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Further Reflections:  Henry Jenkins  17. Endnotes for a Theory of Convergence:  Joe Amato","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018216931671,"sku":"9780415939966","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415939966.jpg?v=1750776048","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-media-theories-and-practices-of-digitextuality-afi-film-readers-9780415939966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}