New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader

by Kyong Chun; Wendy Hui

• ISBN13: 9780415942249
• ISBN10: 0415942241
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The term "new media" rose to prominence in the 1990s, superseding "multi-media" in business, art, and culture. The phrase obstinately portrays other media as old or dead. But what, if anything, is truly unique or revolutionary about new media? New Media,Old Mediais 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 provocativevolume include websites, webcams, the rise and fall of dotcom mania, Internet journalism, the open source movement, and computer viruses. New Media, Old Mediais a foundational text for general readers, students, and scholars of new media across the disciplines. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the cultural impact of new media.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media?	p. 1
Archaeology of Multi-Media	p. 11
Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures?	p. 13
Electricity Made Visible	p. 27
"Tones from out of Nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the Archaeology of Synthetic Sound	p. 45
Archives	p. 83
Memex Revisited	p. 85
Out of File, Out of Mind	p. 97
Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space?	p. 105
Breaking Down: Godard's Histories	p. 125
Ordering Law, Judging History: Deliberations on Court TV	p. 133
Power-Code	p. 155
The Style of Sources: Remarks on the Theory and History of Programming Languages	p. 157
Science as Open Source Process	p. 177
Cold War Networks or Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg	p. 181
Protocol vs. Institutionalization	p. 187
Reload: Liveness, Mobility, and the Web	p. 199
Generation Flash	p. 209
Viruses Are Good for You	p. 219
The Imaginary of the Artificial: Automata, Models, Machinics-On Promiscuous Modeling as Precondition for Poststructuralist Ontology	p. 233
Network Events	p. 249
Information, Crisis, Catastrophe	p. 251
The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual [version 3.0]	p. 265
Imperceptible Perceptions in Our Technological Modernity	p. 277
Deep Europe: A History of the Syndicate Network	p. 287
The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines	p. 297
Theorizing "New" Media	p. 315
Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction	p. 317
Network Subjects: or, The Ghost is the Message	p. 335
Modes of Digital Identification: Virtual Technologies and Webcam Cultures	p. 347
Hypertext Avant La Lettre	p. 359
Network Fever	p. 375
Afterword: The Demystifica-hic-tion of In-hic-formation	p. 399
Contributors	p. 409
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