The authors do a splendid job of showing precisely how technologies like computer games, digital photography, film television, the Web, and virtual reality all turn on the mutually constructive strategies of generating immediacy and making users hyperaware of the media themselves...The authors lay out a provocative theory of contemporary selfhood, one that draws on and modifies current notions of the 'virtual' and 'networked' human subject. Clearly written and not overly technical, this book will interest general readers, students, and scholars engaged with current trends in technology. Choice
Jay David Bolter is Wesley Chair of New Media and Codirector of the
Augmented Media Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the
author of Remediation- Understanding New Media (with Richard
Grusin), Windows and Mirrors- Interaction Design, Digital Art and
the Myth of Transparency (with Diane Gromala), both published by
the MIT Press, and other books.
Richard Grusin is Professor and Chair of English at Wayne State
University in Detroit.
The authors do a splendid job of showing precisely how technologies like computer games, digital photography, film television, the Web, and virtual reality all turn on the mutually constructive strategies of generating immediacy and making users hyperaware of the media themselves...The authors lay out a provocative theory of contemporary selfhood, one that draws on and modifies current notions of the 'virtual' and 'networked' human subject. Clearly written and not overly technical, this book will interest general readers, students, and scholars engaged with current trends in technology.—Choice
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