The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Books)

by Peter Lunenfeld (Editor)

Paperback, 2000

Collection

Media Theory

Status

Available

Call number

303.48

Description

The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.

Genres

Publication

The MIT Press (2000), 320 pages

Subjects

Computers and civilization
Digital media
Science Social aspects
Technology Social aspects

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

0262621371 / 9780262621373

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