Zara Dinnen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zara Dinnen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zara |
| FAMILY NAME | Dinnen |
| SIGNATURE | DINNEN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Becoming User
This essay considers the figure of the “user” as an emergent subject of late twentieth-century US culture, in relation to the World Wide Web and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The user is a subject position that is historical in the sense that use relations have always determined social formations within capitalism, but it has been newly energized in contemporary modes of capitalism after digital computing, and newly weighted in contem…
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories
A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual, and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory togeth…
The Digital Banal
"Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. In its ubiquity digital media have become increasingly banal and in the process its meaning and influence have become less visibly apparent. Contemporary novelists and filmmakers have narrated and depicted everyday life in a way- that represents the emotional, intellectual, and political nature of living in our present-day media environment. The works of these writers and directors, Dinnen argues, al…
Who's Looking At Whom
Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet (eds), Feminist Surveillance Studies, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2015, 304pp. Rachel Dubrofsky and Shoshana Magnet's introduction to Feminist Surveillance Studies begins with a description of an academic scene: At a recent roundtable of academics and privacy advocates discussing surveillance studies and inequality, the conversation variously turned to consumer surveillance, new techno…
Break out that Perl script’
For most users of digital technology, code is the hidden engine of their experience: silent, disguised, unknown and possibly unknowable. It is this experience of code that will be the subject of this article. Code, which is often perceived as textual, runs software, which is predominantly received as graphical. As with printing and handwritten script, all text is technically graphical, but this observation refers specifically to the increasing us…
James Peacock, Jonathan Lethem
In the Mix
This article considers the reinscription of certain ideas of authorship in a digital age, when literary texts are produced through a medium that substantiates and elevates composite forms and procedures over distinct original versions. Digital media technologies reconfigure the way in which we apply such techniques as collage, quotation, and plagiarism, comprising as they do procedural code that is itself a mix, a mash-up, a version of a version …
In the Mix
This article considers the reinscription of certain ideas of authorship in a digital age, when literary texts are produced through a medium that substantiates and elevates composite forms and procedures over distinct original versions. Digital media technologies reconfigure the way in which we apply such techniques as collage, quotation, and plagiarism, comprising as they do procedural code that is itself a mix, a mash-up, a version of a version …
In the Mix
This article considers the reinscription of certain ideas of authorship in a digital age, when literary texts are produced through a medium that substantiates and elevates composite forms and procedures over distinct original versions. Digital media technologies reconfigure the way in which we apply such techniques as collage, quotation, and plagiarism, comprising as they do procedural code that is itself a mix, a mash-up, a version of a version …
Break out that Perl script’
For most users of digital technology, code is the hidden engine of their experience: silent, disguised, unknown and possibly unknowable. It is this experience of code that will be the subject of this article. Code, which is often perceived as textual, runs software, which is predominantly received as graphical. As with printing and handwritten script, all text is technically graphical, but this observation refers specifically to the increasing us…
James Peacock, Jonathan Lethem
Who's Looking At Whom
Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet (eds), Feminist Surveillance Studies, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2015, 304pp. Rachel Dubrofsky and Shoshana Magnet's introduction to Feminist Surveillance Studies begins with a description of an academic scene: At a recent roundtable of academics and privacy advocates discussing surveillance studies and inequality, the conversation variously turned to consumer surveillance, new techno…
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories
A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual, and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory togeth…
The Digital Banal
"Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. In its ubiquity digital media have become increasingly banal and in the process its meaning and influence have become less visibly apparent. Contemporary novelists and filmmakers have narrated and depicted everyday life in a way- that represents the emotional, intellectual, and political nature of living in our present-day media environment. The works of these writers and directors, Dinnen argues, al…
Becoming User
This essay considers the figure of the “user” as an emergent subject of late twentieth-century US culture, in relation to the World Wide Web and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The user is a subject position that is historical in the sense that use relations have always determined social formations within capitalism, but it has been newly energized in contemporary modes of capitalism after digital computing, and newly weighted in contem…
Art (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Comics (2 works) · Digital media (2 works)