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“As someone who attended and participated in the 1999 Interactive Fictions conference, which in many ways consolidated more than a decade of theorizing about and experimenting with digital media, I was uncertain what to expect from Transmedia Frictions. What I found was a rich collection that looks both backward to reconstruct the paths not taken in digital theory and forward to imagine alternative ways of framing issues of medium specificity, digital identities, embodiment, and space/place. This collection is sure to transform how we theorize—and teach—the next phases of our profound and prolonged moment of media transition.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
“This anthology is both an essential document in the history of new media studies and a springboard for critical future work in this field. The breadth of this impressive work is itself instructive about our twenty-first-century academic and scholarly goals.”—Mark J. Williams, coeditor of Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture series
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Preface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative Archaeologies
PART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORS
Medium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An Introduction
Marsha Kinder
Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis
N. Katherine Hayles
Postmedia Aesthetics
Lev Manovich
If–Then–Else: Memory and the Path Not Taken
Edward Branigan
Cyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, Eisenstein
Yuri Tsivian
Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History
Steve Anderson
Films Beget Digital Media
Stephen Mamber
Navigating the Ocean of Streams of Story
Grahame Weinbren
Is This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and Cinema
Caroline Bassett
PART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELF
Digital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An Introduction
Tara McPherson
Transnational/National Digital Imaginaries
John Hess and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Is (Cyber) Space the Place?
Herman Gray
Linkages: Political Topography and Networked Topology
David Wade Crane
The Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard
Eric Gordon
Cuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile Discourse
Cristina Venegas
Thinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra Community
John T. Caldwell
Video Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman’s Corridors Expand Sensory Life
Mark B. N. Hansen
Braingirls and Fleshmonsters
Holly Willis
Tech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita)
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Works Cited
Index
Info autore
Marsha Kinder is Emerita University Professor at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where she was the founding director of the Labyrinth Project. Her books include Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games and Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain.
Tara McPherson is Professor and the Hefner Endowed Chair of Censorship Studies in the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She is author of Feminist in a Software Lab and Reconstructing Dixie, editor of Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected, and coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture.
Riassunto
Presents a collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. This book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics.
