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Record Nr.

UNINA9910508437103321

Autore

Ernst Christoph

Titolo

Media futures : theory and aesthetics / / Christoph Ernst, Jens Schroter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-80488-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

303.49

Soggetti

Social prediction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Media Change as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 2.1 Future Media: Five Theses -- 2.2 Media Change as a Solution to a Problem -- 2.3 The Desire for "New Media" in the Early 1990s -- 2.4 Piazza virtuale: Interactive Television as a New Medium -- References -- Chapter 3: Imagination and Future Media -- 3.1 Imagination and the Forms of the Imaginary -- 3.2 Concepts for Imagining Future Media -- 3.3 Disseminating New Media as Future Media -- 3.4 "Premediation": Future Media as Media of the Future -- References -- Chapter 4: Futures of Digital Media -- 4.1 Interactive Television -- or, Was Piazza virtuale a Social Medium? -- 4.2 Ubiquitous Computing: Omnipresent Computers as Media of "Embodied Virtuality" -- 4.3 The "Minority Report" Paradigm: Holographic Interfaces as Diegetic Objects -- 4.4 Cixin Liu and the Three-Body Problem: Quantum Computers as Postdigital Media? -- References -- Chapter 5: Future Media: Radical Imagination and "Immutable Futures" -- References -- Index.