{"product_id":"transmedia-frictions-9780520281851","title":"Transmedia Frictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. This book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Preface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies  PART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORS Medium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction Marsha Kinder  Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis N. Katherine Hayles  Postmedia Aesthetics Lev Manovich  If--Then--Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken Edward Branigan  Cyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein Yuri Tsivian  Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History Steve Anderson  Films Beget Digital Media Stephen Mamber  Navigating the Ocean of Streams of Story Grahame Weinbren  Is This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and Cinema Caroline Bassett  PART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELF Digital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction Tara McPherson  Transnational\/National Digital Imaginaries John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann  Is (Cyber) Space the Place? Herman Gray  Linkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology David Wade Crane  The Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard Eric Gordon  Cuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse Cristina Venegas  Thinking Digitally\/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community John T. Caldwell  Video Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman's Corridors Expand Sensory Life Mark B. N. Hansen  Braingirls and Fleshmonsters Holly Willis  Tech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gomez-Pena  Works Cited Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402869416279,"sku":"9780520281851","price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520281851.jpg?v=1730481733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transmedia-frictions-9780520281851","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}