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Web aesthetics : how digital media affect culture and society

Title
Web aesthetics : how digital media affect culture and society / Vito Campanelli ; [translation from Italian, Francesco Bardo].
Author
Campanelli, Vito.
Publication
Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; Amsterdam : Institute of Network Cultures, ©2010.

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Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Description
274 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural forms, the implications of aesthetical philosophy have been sorely neglected. Vito Campanelli explores network forms through the prism of aethetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitations of the current debate about digital culture. The web is the medium that stands between the new media and society and, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour, framing aesthetic forms and moulding contemporary culture and society. Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, such as social networks, peer-to-peer networks and 'remix culture', and reduces them to their historical premises, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.
Series Statement
Studies in network cultures
Uniform Title
Studies in network cultures
Alternative Title
How digital media affect culture and society
Subject
  • Digital media > Influence
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • World Wide Web > Social aspects
  • Mass media > Aesthetics
  • Mass media and culture
  • Art and the Internet
  • 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication
  • 54.02 pilosophy and theory of computer science
  • Art and the Internet
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • Mass media > Aesthetics
  • Mass media and culture
  • World Wide Web > Social aspects
  • Ästhetik
  • Internet
  • Medientheorie
  • Neue Medien
  • Internet
  • Online-systemen
  • Esthetica
  • Socioculturele factoren
  • Elektronische Medien > Ästhetik
  • Ästhetik > Elektronische Medien
  • Elektronische Medien > Gesellschaft
  • Medientheorie
  • Digitale Medien
  • Design
  • Kulturleben
  • Gesellschaft
  • Digitala medier > estetiska aspekter
  • Konst och teknik
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).
Contents
Chapter I -- Dialogue Inside and Outside the Web -- Closed Monads -- Spam and Viruses: The Evil to Be Eradicated -- New Media Culture -- Chapter II -- Aesthetic Diffusion -- A Short History of the Concept of Aesthetic Experience -- Diffuse Aesthetics -- Theory of Memes -- Aby Warburg: The Concept of Engram -- Meme Gallery -- Chapter III -- Aesthetic Experience on the Web -- To Flow or Not to Flow -- Fictions -- Optical and Haptic -- Chapter IV -- Aesthetic Experience and Digital Networks -- Travellers in the Aesthetic Matrix -- The DivX and MP3 Experience -- The Centrality of the Eye -- Digital Cameras and the Will of Technology -- What to Fill Digital Memories With? -- Chapter V -- Remix as Compositional Practice -- Innovation and Repetition -- Remix It Yourself -- Remix Ethics -- Remix Ethics -- Machinic subjectivity.
ISBN
  • 9789056627706
  • 9056627708
LCCN
2011401863
OCLC
  • ocn696577517
  • 696577517
  • SCSB-1575290
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library