Research Catalog

Title

Small tech : the culture of digital tools / Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, editors.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Hawk, Byron
• Rieder, David M.
• Oviedo, Ollie O.

Description

xxiii, 236 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.

Series Statement

Electronic mediations ; v. 22

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Electronic mediations v. 22.

Subject

• Telematics
• Miniature electronic equipment > Social aspects
• Pocket computers > Social aspects
• Household electronics > Social aspects
• Cyberspace
• Mass media > Technological innovations
• Digital music players > Social aspects
• Cell phones > Social aspects
• Cell phones > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction, On small tech and complex ecologies / Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder -- Date visualization as new abstraction and as anti-sublime / Lev Manovich -- Softvideography : digital video as postliterate practice / Adrian Miles -- Technopolitics, blogs, and emergent media ecologies : a critical/reconstructive approach / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- Remembering dinosaurs : toward an archaeological understanding of digital photo manipulation / Karla Saari Kitalong -- Cut, copy, and paste / Lance Strate -- Dreamweaver and the procession of simulations : what you see is not why you get what you get / Sean D. Williams -- Revisiting the matter and manner of linking in new media / Collin Gifford Brooke -- Scripted writing: exploring generative dimensions of writing in flash ActionScript / David M. Rieder -- Overhearing : the intimate life of cell phones / Jenny Edbauer Rice -- I am a DJ, I am what I say : the rise of podcasting
• Paul Cesarini -- Walking with texts : using PDAs to manage textual information / Jason Swarts -- Text messaging : rhetoric in a new keypad / Wendy Warren Austin -- Beyond Napster : peer-to-peer technology and network culture / Michael Pennell -- Communication breakdown : the postmodern space of Google / Johndan Johnson-Eilola -- Let there be light in the digital darkroom : digital ecologies and the new photography / Robert A. Emmons Jr. -- "A demonstration of practice" : the real presence of digital video / Veronique Chance -- Buffering Bergson : matter and memory in 3D games / Julian Oliver -- Shifting subjects in locative media / Teri Rueb -- Virtual reality as a teaching tool : learning by configuring / James J. Sosnoski -- Digital provocations and applied aesthetics : projects in speculative computing / Johanna Drucker -- Dehumanization, rhetoric, and the design of wearable augmented reality interfaces / Isabel Pedersen --
• Sousveillance : wearable and digital tools in surveilled environments / Jason Nolan, Steve Mann, and Barry Wellman -- Ambient video : the transformation of the domestic cinematic experience / Jim Bizzocchi -- Sound in domestic virtual environments / Jeremy Yuille -- Getting real and feeling in control : haptic interfaces / Joanna Castner Post -- Digital craft and digital touch : hands-on design with an "undo" button / Mark Paterson.

ISBN

• 9780816649778 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0816649774 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780816649785 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0816649782 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007033558

OCLC

• 154789915
• SCSB-10212927

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library