| The New Media Reader | 
| Creators: Noah Wardrip-fruin, Nick Montfort
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
List Price: $52.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 24938
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 837
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0262232278
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23
EAN: 9780262232272
ASIN: 0262232278
Publication Date: February 14, 2003
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Product Description
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were originally published between World War II--when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared--and the emergence of the World Wide Web--when they entered the mainstream of public life. The texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. The contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo Calvino, Marshall McLuhan, Billy Kl?Jean Baudrillard, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Bill Viola, Sherry Turkle, Richard Stallman, Brenda Laurel, Langdon Winner, Robert Coover, and Tim Berners-Lee. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. One example is a video record of Douglas Engelbart's first presentation of the mouse, word processor, hyperlink, computer-supported cooperative work, video conferencing, and the dividing up of the screen we now call non-overlapping windows; another is documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art installation.
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heavy stuff November 29, 2008
nice coverage of essential writings historically, but the hardcover edition is quite heavy to carry around.
 Dry Read February 5, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The concepts of the book are very interesting, and some of the articles are engaging, but overall I found this book to be an tedious and dry read.
 Rosetta Stone of Hypertext June 15, 2004
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This huge tome is a must have for anyone who wants to deeply understand hypertext and its precursors. From William Burroughs to Doug Englebart and Augosto Boal to Ted Nelson this book presents a huge range of articles (and discursive commentary) of interest to computer scientists, writers, new media workers, artists and everyone in between. This is one stop shopping for new media literacy with over 800 pages of good stuff, much of it very hard to find outside of this volume.
Well done! March 17, 2003
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
Fascinating, thorough in its analysis, beautifully designed reader/player. Good, well-rounded selection of texts and new media objects with no attempt to be exhaustive (to the editors' credit). I plan to use it as one of the texts in an upcoming university course.
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