Indergaard, Michael — Silicon Alley — the rise and fall of a new media district

I was struck by the use of the term „new media“ as I was just reading Michael Indergaard's (2004) _Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District_. It doesn't seem too new anymore but he argued that the term ?new media? was particularly attractive to many of the Silicon Alley immigrants as it differentiated them from computer people and further set them apart from Silicon Valley. Many also saw „new media“ as challenging the traditional New York broadcast and publishing powers and having the potential to allow formerly marginalized voices to be heard. I guess those voices are starting to haunt Columbia's J-school.

READING — RECOMMENDED:

M. Mitchell Waldrop.
The Dream Machine : J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal.
Paperback.
Penguin, 2002.
ISBN: 014200135X

READINGS — REQUIRED:

Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds. New Media Reader.
Hardcover.
The MIT Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0262232278

Bruce Sterling.
Shaping Things.
Paperback
The MIT Press. 2005
ISBN: 0262693267

Sylvère Lotringer, Paul Virilio.
The Accident of Art.
Paperback.
Semiotext(e), 2005.
ISBN: 1584350202

Jesper Juul.
Half-Real : Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds.
Hardcover.
The MIT Press (November 1, 2005)
ISBN: 0262101106

Mark B.N. Hansen.
New Philosophy for New Media.
Hardcover.
The MIT Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0262083213

VIS242. Theories of Media and New Media
University of California, San Diego
Winter 2006 quarter
Instructor: Dr. Lev Manovich

Required books

1. Timothy Druckrey, editor. Electronic Culture: Technology & Visual Representation. New York: Aperture, 1997. ISBN: 0893816787
2. Pierre Levy. Collective Intelligence : Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace. New York: Plenum Press, 1997. ISBN: 0306456354
3. Sadie Plant. Zeros + Ones : Digital Women + the New Technoculture. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Recommended books

1. Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet.Touchstone Books, 1997. ISBN: 0684833484
2. Agre, Philip E. Computation and Human Experience (Learning in Doing). Cambridge Univ Pr, 1997.ISBN: 0521386039
3. Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 0262691892
4. Kroker, Arthur (Editor) and Kroker, Marilouise, editors. Digital Delirium. St. Martin's Press, June 1997. ISBN: 0312172370
5. Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Free Press, 1997. ISBN: 0684827239
6. Edwards, Paul. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. The MIT Press, 1996.
7. Hertz, J.C. Joystick Nation. Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
8. Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
9. Benedict, Michael, editor. Cyberspace: First Steps. The MIT Press, 1991.
10. Eames, Charles. A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age. Harward University Press, 1990.
11. Johnson. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way we Create and Communicate. HarperCollins, 1997.

VIS237 Graduate Studies in Art Spring 1998
Theories of New Media
Instructor: Dr. Lev Manovich

2. MULTIMEDIA: FROM WAGNER TO VIRTUAL REALITY
Edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan
Hardcover: 394 pages ;
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393049795; 1 Ed edition (January 15, 2001)

3. Levy, Pierre. Cyberculture
Paperback: 208 pages ;
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0816636109; (October 2001)

4. Virilio, Paul. Open Sky
Paperback: 144 pages ;
Publisher: Verso Books; ISBN: 1859841813; (August 1997)

5. Kittler, Friedrich. Literature, Media, Information Systems.
Paperback: 208 pages ;
Publisher: Routledge; ISBN: 9057010615; (December 1, 1997)

VIS242. Theories of Media and New Media
UCSD, Fall 2002
Instructor: Dr. Lev Manovich

Key Scholarly Essays

Donna Haraway — A Cyborg Manifesto
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html

Rosi Braidotti — Cyberfeminism with a difference
http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/rosi/cyberfem.htm

Stewart Brand — Spacewar: fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

Vannevar Bush — As we may think
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.shtml

Daniel Chandler — Personal home pages and the construction of identities on the web
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/webident.html

Mark Poster — Internet and the public sphere
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/democ.html

Mark Poster — Postmodern virtualities
http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html

N. Katherine Hayles — Excerpt from How We Became Posthuman
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/321460.html

New Media: A Critical Introduction

Key Scholars & Researchers in New Media and Technoculture

Alexander Galloway
http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/

Donna Haraway
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/haraway.html

Mimi Ito
http://www.itofisher.com/mito/

Henry Jenkins
http://www.henryjenkins.org/
http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/

Jesper Juul
http://www.jesperjuul.net/

Bruno Latour
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/

Geert Lovinck
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/

Lev Manovich
http://www.manovich.net

T.L. Taylor
http://www.itu.dk/~tltaylor/

Judy Wajcman
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/researchassociates.cfm?id=30

New Media: A Critical Introduction

Week 2: Wednesday Sept 5: What Are Media?
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994), pp. 3-61.
Mark Hansen, „Media Theory,“ Theory Culture & Society 23(2-3) (2006): 297-306.
Film: Videodrome

Week 3: Wednesday, September 12: What are New Media?
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media, Cambridge, Mass.; MIT University Press, 1999, pp. 2-87; pp. 230-271.
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, Cambridge, Mass.; MIT Press, 2001, Introduction and Ch. 1-2, pp. 3-115, and Ch. 5-6, pp 212-333.
N. Katherine Hayles, ‘‘Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality,’’ Yale Journal of Criticism 16 (2003), pp. 263–90.
N. Katherine Hayles, “Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis,” Poetics Today, 25:1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 67-90.
N. Katherine Hayles, “Narrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines,” Comparative Critical Studies 2.2 (2005):165-90.

…iš studijų programos…

A: I'm in dire need of a basic undergrad new media textbook that has a good collection of foundational essays (such as Manovich, Bush, McLuhan, Jenkins, Bolter and Grusin, et al.), but is not too esoteric or advanced for an entry level undergrad course. The MIT New Media Reader book and Lister's New Media or good, but maybe too much for grad students. Any suggestions?

J: Have you examined Strate, Jacobson, & Gibson's Communication and Cyberspace, 2nd ed. (Hampton, 2003)?

JY: Here's one recently published possibility: Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools by Byron Hawk (Editor), David M. Rieder (Editor), Ollie Oviedo (Editor), Univ Of Minnesota Press (2008)

D: It's not a text per se, but it is incredibly useful, and I've included it in several of my intro to communication and media analysis courses: Jarice Harson „24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work and Play.“

B: Hi Antonio — I have just the book for you which I happen to have written. It is being published by Hampton Press and is due to emerge sometime this year. It is entitled Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan and it is an update of McLuhan's classic Understanding Media. By Robert K. Logan, PhD […] I just got off the phone with the publisher Barbara Bernstein at Hampton who reported the book will be out in the first quarter of 2009.

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Medijų ekologijos pradininkai (pagal Neil Postman)

1. Jacques Ellul
2. Marshall McLuhan
3. Eric Havelock
4. Susanne Langer

Kiti minimi autoriai:

1. Lewis Mumford

Digital Salon 2002

http://www.manovich.net/digitalsalon.htm

While digital art fields does not has a canon of critical texts about the art itself, most people in it are familiar with at least some theoretical texts dealing with the larger topics of digital technology / culture / society. I think that in fact a number of such theoretical texts act as equivalent of canonical critical texts in other art fields. Since I had the limit of ten texts total, I could only include a small sample of such theoretical works. I choose Discourse Networks by Friedrich Kittler (1985; English edition 1990); Cyberspace: First Steps, edited by Michael Benedikt (1991), DJ Culture by Ulf Poshardt (1995; English edition 1998); and Cybertext by Espen Aarseth (1997). But I could have equally well selected books by Katherine Hayles, Sherry Turkle, W.J.T. Mitchell, Paul Virilio, Peter Lunenfeld, Jay David Bolter, Pierre Levy, Geert Lovink, Norman Klein, Vivian Sobchack, Peter Weibel, Slavoj Zizek, Erkki Huhtamo, Margaret Morse, Alex Galloway, Matt Fuller, and many others (and this is just the people who write in English or available in English translation; internationally, the list of brilliant commentators on techno-culture goes on and on.)

Lev Manovich

10 Key Texts on New Media Art, 1970-2000

Digital Salon 2002|http://www.manovich.net/digitalsalon.htm

1. Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema (New York: Dulton, 1970).
2. Jasia Reichardt, The Computer in Art (London: 1971).
3. Cynthia Goodman, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, (New York: 1987).
4. Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks (Stanford, 1990). (Original German edition 1985).
5. Michael Benedikt, ed., Cyberspace: First Steps (Cambridge, Mass.: 1991).
6. Artinctact 1: Artists’ Interactive CD-ROMagazine (Karlsruhe, 1994).
7. Minna Tarkka et all, eds., The 5th International Symsposium on Electronic Art Catalogue (ISEA), (Helsinki, 1994.)
8. Peter Weibel et all, eds., Mythos Information: Welcome to the Wired World. Ars Electronica 1995 Festival Catalog, edited by Peter Weibel (Vienna and New York: 1995).
9. Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Baltimore: 1997).
10. Ulf Poschard, DJ Culture (London, 1998). (Original publication in German, 1995).

Balsas.cc siūlomi medijų skaitiniai

1. Dieter Daniels: Vom Readymade zum Cyberspace. Kunst / Medien / Interferenzen. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2003, 128 psl.
2. Frank Hartman: Globale Medienkultur. Technik, Geschichte, Theorien. UTB, 2006

Bilwet/Agentur Bilwet/Adilkno

http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/

Cracking the Movement *The*Whole*Book*

The Media Archive *The*Whole*Book*

Nettime — ZKP5

http://www.medialounge.net/lounge/workspace/nettime/DOCS/zkp5/intro.html

README!FILTERED BY <NETTIME>ASCII CULTURE AND THE REVENGE OF KNOWLEDGE edited by Josephine Bosma, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Ted Byfield Matthew Fuller, Geert Lovink, Diana McCarty, Pit Schultz Felix Stalder, McKenzie Wark, and Faith Wilding AUTONOMEDIA

Nuorodos į naujųjų medijų skaitinius

http://www.balsas.cc/scott-rettberg-naujuju-mediju-studijos-keletas-nuorodu-i-naujuju-mediju-skaitinius/

„Naujųjų medijų skaitinys“ (The New Media Reader), parengtas Noah Wardrip-Fruino ir Nicko Montforto ir išleistas MIT Press. „Naujųjų medijų skaitinys“ yra maždaug 800 puslapių knyga (drauge su kompaktiniu disku), kurioje surinkti straipsniai, pranešimai ir kūrybinės publikacijos, pasirodžiusios nuo naujųjų medijų ištakų susiformavimo penktajame dešimtmetyje iki pasaulinio interneto tinklo (www) susikūrimo.

N. Katherine’os Heyles „Rašančios mašinos“ (Writing Machines) — publikacija, kurioje kvalifikuota elektroninės literatūros kritikė ir drauge iškalbinga jos advokatė pakviečia skaitytojus susipažinti su savo pačios kelione į literatūros daiktiškumą ir technotekstų galimumo pripažinimą.

Josepho Tabbio darbas „Kognityvinės fikcijos“ (Cognitive Fictions), kuriame autorius dėsto savo autopoetines fikcijas šiuolaikinių medijų ekologijos erdvėje.

Davido Weinbergerio publikacija „Nerūpestingai sujungti gabalėliai: suvienyta tinklo teorija“ (Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web) — skaitmeninės kultūros tyrinėjimai.

Scott Rettberg: naujųjų medijų studijos: keletas nuorodų į naujųjų medijų skaitinius | Balsas

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Akademinis naujųjų medijų studijų įsitvirtinimas vyksta tuo pačiu metu įvairiomis kryptimis: jas galima atrasti įtrauktas į vaizduojamųjų menų, komunikacijos mokslų, informatikos, retorikos, žurnalistikos, literatūros ir veikiausiai gal net į kūrybinio rašymo programas. Vienas iš svarbiausių paskutiniųjų metų įvykių buvo Brauno (Brown) universiteto pranešimas apie mokslinę stipendiją elektroninio rašymo studijoms, ilgai lauktas Roberto Cooverio ir Roberto Arellano praėjusiame dešimtmetyje organizuotų elektroninio rašymo dirbtuvių veiklos įvertinimas. Kuomet prieš dešimtmetį naujųjų medijų kūrimas ir tyrinėjimas būtų buvęs įmanomas tik saujelėje mokslinių įstaigų, šiandieną tam atsiranda žymiai daugiau galimybių — ir ne tik Ivy League koledžuose ar aukščiausio lygio institucijose, tokiuose kaip Kolorado, Ajovos ir Los Andželo universitetai, bet net ir pačiuose nuošaliausiuose kampeliuose kaip Baltimorė pietiniame Niudžersyje ir Turku Suomijoje. Man rodos reikšminga ir tai, kad keturi iš septynių autorių, rašančių apžvalgas šiuo klausimu (Chris Funkhouser, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Raine Koskimaa ir aš), šiuo metu dėsto vienus ar kitus naujųjų medijų studijų aspektus — hipertekstą, elektroninį tekstą ar pan., — ir ne kaip eksperimentinius vienkartinius kursus, bet kaip nuolatinius studijų programų komponentus. Naujųjų medijų studijos tampa tokia pat įprasta studijų programa kaip ir britų literatūra.