Rethinking Media Change

The Aesthetics of Transition

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ID23255293
EditorsDavid Thorburn, Henry Jenkins
Year2004
Pages416
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byRethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition, Kristy Best, 2004
VenueRethinking Media Change (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/5930.001.0001
OpenAlexW4232412834
Open LibraryOL29593532M
ISBN9780262284943
LanguageEN
Citations received51

The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another.

Media studies · New media · Social media · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Variety (cybernetics) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Media, Communication, and Education · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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