Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of TransitionDavid Thorburn, Henry Jenkins The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another. |
Contents
Introduction Toward an Aesthetics of Transition | 1 |
Media Changes | 17 |
Web of Paradox | 19 |
Historicizing Media in Transition | 23 |
ReNewing Old Technologies Astonishment Second Nature and the Uncanny in Technology from the Previous TurnoftheCentury | 39 |
How Users Define New Media A History of the Amusement Phonograph | 61 |
Books Are Dead Long Live Books | 81 |
Help or Hindrance? The History of the Book and Electronic Media | 95 |
Reflections on Interactivity | 217 |
Forms of Future | 227 |
Stitch Bitch The Patchwork Girl | 239 |
Lets Be Going A Parent Reads GeekCereal | 253 |
Private Uses of Cyberspace Women Desire and Fan Culture | 261 |
Quentin Tarantinos Star Wars? Digital Cinema Media Convergence and Participatory Culture | 281 |
Visual Culture | 313 |
Immersion in the Virtual Ornament Contemporary Movie Ride Films | 315 |
Historical Perspectives on the Book and Information Technology | 117 |
Potholes on the Information Superhighway Congress as a Publisher in NineteenthCentury America | 137 |
Prophetic Peasants and Bourgeois Pamphleteers The Camisards Represented in Print 16851710 | 163 |
Redefining the Home Screen Technological Convergence as Trauma and Business Plan | 191 |
Emerging Forms and Practices | 201 |
Homer to Home Page Designing Digital Books | 203 |
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