Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition / edited by David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins ; associate editor, Brad Seawell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Toward an aesthetics of transition / David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins -- Web of paradox / David Thorburn -- Historicizing media in transition / William Uricchio -- Re-newing old technologies : astonishment, second nature, and the uncanny in technology from the previous turn-of-the-century / Tom Gunning -- How users define new media : a history of the amusement phonograph / Lisa Gitelman -- Books are dead, long live books / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- Help or hindrance? The history of the book and electronic media / Paul Erickson -- Historical perspectives on the book and information technology / Gregory Crane -- Potholes on the information superhighway : Congress as a publisher in nineteenth-century America / Oz Frankel -- Prophetic peasants and bourgeois pamphleteers : the camisards represented in print, 1685-1710 / Daniel Thorburn -- Redefining the home screen : technological convergence as trauma and business plan / William Boddy -- Homer to home page : designing digital books / William J. Mitchell -- Reflections on interactivity / Luis O. Arata -- Forms of future / Michael Joyce -- Stitch bitch : the patchwork girl / Shelley Jackson -- "Let's be going" : a parent reads GeekCereal / Peter Donaldson -- Private uses of cyberspace : women, desire, and fan culture / Sharon Cumberland -- Quentin Tarantino's Star wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture / Henry Jenkins -- Immersion in the virtual ornament : contemporary "movie ride" films / Constance Balides -- The virtual window / Anne Friedberg -- Architectures of the senses : neo-baroque entertainment spectacles / Angela Ndalianis -- Media technology and museum display : a century of accommodation and conflict / Alison Griffiths.

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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.

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