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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455138103321

Autore

Raley Rita

Titolo

Tactical media [[electronic resource] /] / Rita Raley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8166-6798-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; 28

Disciplina

302.23/1

Soggetti

Mass media - Simulation methods

Digital media

Computer simulation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Tactical media as virtuosic performance -- Border hacks : electronic civil disobedience and the politics of immigration -- Virtual war : information visualization and persuasive gaming -- Speculative capital : Black shoals and the visualizing of finance.

Sommario/riassunto

Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections between the world's corporate and political elite created by Josh On and Future farmers, to Black Shoals, a financial market visualization that is intended to be both aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embrace a