Bassett The arc and the machine

Narrative and new media
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-161-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bassett, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Narrative machines
2. ‘Beautiful Patterns of Bits’: cybernetics, interfaces, new media
Part 1: The thing itself: technology and determination
Part 2: Contemporary technocultures
3. Those with whom the archive dwells
4. Annihilating all that’s made? legends of virtual community
5. ‘Just Because’ stories: On Elephant

Über Autor(innen)

Bassett Caroline:
Caroline Bassett is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Media and Film at the University of SussexCaroline Bassett is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex