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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791945603321

Autore

Bassett Caroline

Titolo

The arc and the machine : narrative and new media / / Caroline Bassett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-84779-649-4

1-78170-090-7

1-84779-161-1

Edizione

[Online-ausg.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

EBL-Schweitzer

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media

Discourse analysis, Narrative

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

9780719073427; 9780719073427; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Narrative machines; 2 'Beautiful patterns of bits': cybernetics, interfaces, new media; 3 Those with whom the archive dwells; 4 Annihilating all that's made?Legends of virtual community; 5 'Just because' stories:on Elephant; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.The book offers a careful explo