The New Media Reader

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Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz) Nick Montfort (Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The New Media Reader

Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz), Nick Montfort (Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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MIT Press
14 February 2003

Media studies

Series: The MIT Press

A sourcebook of historical written texts, video documentation, and working programs that form the foundation of new media.

This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs-many of them now almost impossible to find-that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were originally published between World War II-when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared-and the emergence of the World Wide Web-when they entered the mainstream of public life. The texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. The contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo Calvino, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Bill Viola, Sherry Turkle, Richard Stallman, Brenda Laurel, Langdon Winner, Robert Coover, and Tim Berners-Lee. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. One example is a video record of Douglas Engelbart's first presentation of the mouse, word processor, hyperlink, computer-supported cooperative work, video conferencing, and the dividing up of the screen we now call non-overlapping windows; another is documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art installation.

Edited by: Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California Santa Cruz University of California Santa Cruz), Nick Montfort (Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 1.542kg
ISBN: 9780262232272
ISBN 10: 0262232278
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 840
Publication Date: 14 February 2003
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he codirects the Expressive Intelligent Studio. He is the author of Expressive Processing- Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT Press). Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages- An Approach to Interactive Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam- The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); - GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press).

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A stunner... -- Brian Kim Stefans New York Fine Arts Quarterly The New Media Reader...is my if-you-can-only-take-one pick for a computer history vacation suitcase-stuffer. -- Michael Swaine Dr. Dobb's Journal

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Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz), Nick Montfort (Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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