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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.

Mass media --- Journalism & Communications --- Communication & Mass Media --- History. --- History --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory

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The emergence of New Media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creates a battleground between the feminized, seductive power of images and the masculine rationality of the printed word. Eloquent Images suggests that these debates misunderstand the dynamic interplay that has always existed between word and image. Arguing that the complex relationship between text and image in New Media does not represent a radical rupture from the past, the book examines rhetorical and cultural uses of word and image both historically and currently. It shows that complex, interpenetrating relationships between verbal and visual communication systems were already evident in hieroglyphic writing and in ancient rhetoric and persist in the work of classical rhetoricians, in cultural studies of technology, even in the binary code distinctions of digital environments. The essays blend theory, critique, and design practice to explore the often contradictory relations of word and image. All of them call for theoretically grounded approaches to hypermedia design.

Visual communication. --- Digital media. --- Criticism. --- Visual communication --- Digital media --- Criticism --- Journalism & Communications --- Communication & Mass Media --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Communication --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory

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Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information or expand the arena of free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in Castro's Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal.

Democracy. --- Communication --- Information society --- Information technology --- Political aspects. --- Self-government --- Communication and politics --- Politics and communication --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies

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"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph to unfamiliar curiosities such as the physiognotrace and the zograscope. Moving beyond the story of technological innovation, the book considers emergent media as sites of ongoing cultural exchange. It considers how habits and structures of communication can frame a collective sense of public and private and how they inform our apprehensions of the "real.""--Jacket.

Mass media --- Communication & Mass Media --- Journalism & Communications --- History. --- History --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science --- Mass media and technology --- Technology and mass media --- Technology --- 791.5 --- achttiende eeuw --- communicatie --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Edited by Lias Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree --- filmgeschiedenis --- fotografie --- geschiedenis --- media --- negentiende eeuw --- nieuwe media --- stereoscopie --- telecommunicatie --- theorie --- twintigste eeuw --- virtual reality --- zograscoop --- 82:659.3 --- 82:659.3 Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- Literatuur en massacommunicatie