Ebook: New media, old media: a history and theory reader

"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 Media is 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 provocative volume include websites, webcams, the rise and fall of dotcom mania, Internet journalism, the open source movement, and computer viruses. New Media, Old Media is 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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0647/2005014486-d.html.;Early film history and multi-media: an archaeology of possible futures? / Thomas Elsaesser -- Electricity made visible / Geoffrey Batchen -- "Tones from out of nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the archaeology of synthetic sound / Thomas Y. Levin -- Memex revisited / Vannevar Bush -- Out of file, out of mind / Cornelia Vismann -- Dis/continuities: Does the archive become metaphorical in multi-media space? / Wolfgang Ernst -- Breaking down: Godard's histories / Richard Dienst -- Ordering law, judging history: deliberations on court TV / Lynne Joyrich -- The style of sources: remarks on the theory and history of programming languages / Wolfgang Hagen -- Science as open source process / Friedrich Kittler -- Cold War networks, or, Kaiserstr. 2, Neubabelsberg / Friedrich Kittler -- Protocol vs. institutionalization / Alexander R. Galloway -- Reload: liveness, mobility, and the Web / Tara McPherson -- Generation flash / Lev Manovich -- Viruses are good for you / Julian Dibbell -- The imaginary of the artificial: automata, models, machinics; on promiscuous modeling as precondition for poststructuralist ontology / Anders Michelsen -- Information, crisis, catastrophe / Mary Ann Doane -- The weird global media event and the tactical intellectual [version 3.0] / MacKenzie Wark -- Imperceptible perceptions in our technological modernity / Arvind Rajagopal -- Deep Europe: a history of the syndicate network / Geert Lovink -- The cell phone and the crowd: messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael -- Cybertyping and the work of race in the age of digital reproduction / Lisa Nakamura -- Network subjects, or, the ghost is the message / Nicholas Mirzeoff -- Modes of digital identification: virtual technologies and webcam cultures / Ken Hillis -- Hypertext Avant la lettre / Peter Krapp -- Network fever / Mark Wigley -- The demystifica-hic-tion of in-hic-formation / Thomas Keenan.