Small Tech

by Hawk, Byron

• ISBN13: 9780816649778
• ISBN10: 0816649774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

The essays in Small Techinvestigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments. Contributors: Wendy Warren Austin, Edinboro U; Jim Bizzocchi, Simon Fraser U; Collin Gifford Brooke, Syracuse U; Paul Cesarini, Bowling Green State U; Veronique Chance, U of London; Johanna Drucker, U of Virginia; Jenny Edbauer, Penn State U; Robert A. Emmons Jr., Rutgers U; Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson U; Richard Kahn, UCLA; Douglas Kellner, UCLA; Karla Saari Kitalong, U of Central Florida; Steve Mann, U of Toronto; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Adrian Miles, RMIT U; Jason Nolan, Ryerson U; Julian Oliver; Mark Paterson, U of the West of England, Bristol; Isabel Pedersen, Ryerson U; Michael Pennell, U of Rhode Island; Joanna Castner Post, U of Central Arkansas; Teri Rueb, Rhode Island School of Design; James J. Sosnoski; Lance State, Fordham U; Jason Swarts, North Carolina State U; Barry Wellman, U of Toronto; Sean D. Williams, Clemson U; Jeremy Yuille, RMIT U. Byron Hawk is assistant professor of English at George Mason University. David M. Rieder is assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University. Ollie Oviedo is associate professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies
Traditional Software in New Ecologies
Data Visualization as New Abstraction and as Anti-Sublime	p. 3
Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice	p. 10
Technopolitics, Blogs, and Emergent Media Ecologies: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach	p. 22
Remembering Dinosaurs: Toward an Archaeological Understanding of Digital Photo Manipulation	p. 38
Cut, Copy, and Paste	p. 48
Dreamweaver and the Procession of Simulations: What You See Is Not Why You Get What You Get	p. 57
Revisiting the Matter and Manner of Linking in New Media	p. 69
ScriptedWriting() { Exploring Generative Dimensions of Writing in Flash ActionScript	p. 80
Small Tech and Cultural Contexts
Overhearing: The Intimate Life of Cell Phones	p. 95
I Am a DJ, I Am What I Say: The Rise of Podcasting	p. 98
Walking with Texts: Using PDAs to Manage Textual Information	p. 101
Text Messaging: Rhetoric in a New Keypad	p. 104
Beyond Napster: Peer-to-Peer Technology and Network Culture	p. 107
Communication Breakdown: The Postmodern Space of Google	p. 110
Let There Be Light in the Digital Darkroom: Digital Ecologies and the New Photography	p. 116
"A Demonstration of Practice": The Real Presence of Digital Video	p. 119
Buffering Bergson: Matter and Memory in 3D Games	p. 124
Shifting Subjects in Locative Media	p. 129
Future Technologies and Ambient Environments
Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool: Learning by Configuring	p. 137
Digital Provocations and Applied Aesthetics: Projects in Speculative Computing	p. 150
Dehumanization, Rhetoric, and the Design of Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces	p. 166
Sousveillance: Wearable and Digital Tools in Surveilled Environments	p. 179
Ambient Video: The Transformation of the Domestic Cinematic Experience	p. 197
Sound in Domestic Virtual Environments	p. 207
Getting Real and Feeling in Control: Haptic Interfaces	p. 212
Digital Craft and Digital Touch: Hands-on Design with an "Undo" Button	p. 223
Contributors	p. 233
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