New Media, Old Media A History and Theory Reader [Paperback]

This much-expanded and updated second edition of New Media, Old Mediabrings together original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Touching on topics including media archaeology, archives, software studies, surveillance, big data, social media, organized networks, digital art, and the Internet of Things, this newly revised critical anthology is essential reading for anyone studying the cultural impact of new and digital media.

Introduction

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Someone Said New Media

Introduction, Anna Watkins Fisher

1. Thomas Elsaesser: Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures?

2. Lev Manovich, The Language of Cultural Interfaces

3. Wolfgang Ernst, Dis/continuities: Does the Archive Become Metaphorical in Multi-Media Space

4. Jonathan Sterne, Format Theory

5. Lisa Parks, Earth Observation and Signal Territories: Studying U.S. Broadcast Infrastructure through Historical Network Maps, Google Earth, and Fieldwork

6. Lisa Nakamura, Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture

7. Steve Anderson, Reflections on The Virtual Window Interactive, with an addendum by Tristan Rodman, Through The Virtual Window

Introduction, Anna Watkins Fisher

8. Vannevar Bush, Memex Revisited

9. Cornelia Vismann, Out of File, Out of Mind

10. Lisa Gitelman, Raw Data is an Oxymoron

11. Matthew Kirschenbaum, Extreme Inscription: A Grammatology of the Hard Drive

12. Hito Steyerl, In Defense of the Poor Image

13. Rick Prelinger, The Disappearancel'