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

• Autore: Bassett Caroline
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2007
• Edizione: Online-ausg.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.231
• Soggetto topico: Digital media; Discourse analysis, Narrative
• Soggetto non controllato: age of information; cultural production; digital age; information technology; informational culture; interpretation; narrative; new media; sensation; techno-cultural writing
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The arc and the machine
• ISBN: 1-84779-649-4; 1-78170-090-7; 1-84779-161-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819994503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II