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Mechanisms
New Media and the Forensic Imagination
Taschenbuch von Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Sprache: Englisch

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A new "textual studies” and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa,” Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage—the hard drive in particular—arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between "forensic materiality” and "formal materiality,” Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa.”

A new "textual studies” and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa,” Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage—the hard drive in particular—arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between "forensic materiality” and "formal materiality,” Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa.”

Über den Autor
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and the author of the award-winning Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press).
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Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Medienwissenschaften
Genre: Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262517409
ISBN-10: 026251740X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Maße: 228 x 174 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2012
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 106743048
Über den Autor
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and the author of the award-winning Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press).
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Medienwissenschaften
Genre: Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262517409
ISBN-10: 026251740X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Maße: 228 x 174 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2012
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 106743048
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