Software Takes Command
(Sprache: Englisch)
Looks at the aesthetics of contemporary design from the theoretical perspectives of media.
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Looks at the aesthetics of contemporary design from the theoretical perspectives of media.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Software Takes Command “
Introduction PART 1: Inventing Media Software Chapter 1. Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine Chapter 2. Understanding Metamedia PART 2: Hybridization and Evolution Chapter 3: Hybridization Chapter 4. Soft Evolution PART 3: Software in Action Chapter 5. Media Design Conclusion Index
Autoren-Porträt von Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (2005), and The Language of New Media (2001) which was described as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." Manovich is a Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a Visiting Professor at European Graduate School.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lev Manovich
- 376 Seiten, 30 Abbildungen, Maße: 13,9 x 21,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC US
- ISBN-10: 1623567459
- ISBN-13: 9781623567453
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Software Takes Command “
The language of new media is embodied and expressed---lent visual and interactive form---through software. Software is the agent of our every digital experience. And software is a quintessentially human artifact. The fact that it is intangible---you can't reach out and touch it---is the least interesting thing about it. This long-researched book, which synthesizes critical theory, human-computer interaction, and media history as well as newer approaches from the digital humanities, allows software to take its place as a commanding element in our conversations about computers, and how we work, play, learn, and create. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, US With Software Takes Command, Lev Manovich seeks to answer a central question: 'Why should humanists, social scientists, media scholars and cultural critics care about software?' His answer is a provocative, historically informed book that breaks new ground in digital humanities, in new media studies and in what Manovich defined in his earlier book The Language of New Media, as software studies. Through a theoretical analysis of the computer as cultural metamedium and a probing history of 'media software' such Photoshop and After Effects, among others, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how software has changed how we work, create, and perceive the world. -- Tanya Clement, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas, Austin, US Computers haven't transformed media--they've shattered the very idea of a medium. Lev Manovich connects the dots of software society, from layers in Photoshop to layers of data, interpretation, and meaning. -- Martin Wattenberg, Software Artist and Scientist
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