The Arc and the Machine
Narrative and the New Media
Bassett, Caroline
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The Arc and the Machine is a timely and original defense of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.
AUTHOR BIO
Caroline Bassett is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction * Narrative machines * Beautiful Patterns of Bits: cybernetics, interfaces, new media * Part 1: The thing itself: technology and determination * Part 2: Contemporary technocultures * Those with whom the archive dwells * Annihilating all thats made? legends of virtual community * Just Because stories: On Elephant Introduction * Narrative machines * Beautiful Patterns of Bits: cybernetics, interfaces, new media * Part 1: The thing itself: technology and determination * Part 2: Contemporary technocultures * Those with whom the archive dwells * Annihilating all thats made? legends of virtual community * Just Because stories: On Elephant
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0719073421
ISBN(13-digit): 9780719073427
Dewey Decimal: 302.23
Library of Congress: 2008299746
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 212
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