From: David Weininger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 March 2003 15:28
To: John Armitage
Subject: book announcement--Wardrip
Dear John,
I wondered whether the following book announcement would be appropriate for
posting to the CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE. I'd be happy to edit the announcement to
meet your specifications. Please let me know whether or not you post the
announcement. Thank you!
Best,
David
I thought readers of the CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE might be interested in this
book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262232278
The New Media Reader
edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort
The new media field has been developing for more than 50 years. 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
this still-emerging field. General introductions by Janet H. Murray (author
of *Hamlet on the Holodeck*) and Lev Manovich (author of *The Language of
New Media*), along with short introductions to each of the selections, place
the works in their historical context and explain their significance.
The texts are from computer scientists, artists, architects, literary
writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working
across disciplines. They 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 these concepts entered the mainstream of public life).
The contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush,
Alan Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo
Calvino, Marshall McLuhan, Billy Klüver, 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.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a creative writing fellow at Brown University and
coeditor of First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game,
forthcoming from MIT Press. Nick Montfort is a PhD student in computer and
information science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Twisty
Little Passages, also forthcoming from MIT Press.
"Here for the first time within a single volume we can trace the cultural
helix, the echoing and opposing strands that form the DNA for cyberspace
itself."
--from the introduction by Janet H. Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck
8 x 9, 824 pp., 551 illus., cloth and CD-ROM, ISBN 0-262-23227-8
Also, see the book's dedicated website at http://newmediareader.com
______________________
David Weininger
Associate Publicist
The MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
617 253 2079
617 253 1709 fax
http://mitpress.mit.edu
************************************************************************************
Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion
list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic
study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html
*************************************************************************************
|
