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1. The secret war between downloading and uploading : tales of the computer as culture machine [2011]
- Lunenfeld, Peter.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- Description
- Book — xvii, 219 p. ; 21 cm.
- Summary
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As we hurtle into the twenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or active uploaders of meaning? The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century's culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means of distribution, and the site of reception. We haven't quite achieved the flying cars and robot butlers of futurist fantasies, but we do have a machine that can function as a typewriter and a printing press, a paintbrush and a gallery, a piano and a radio, the mail as well as the mail carier. But, warns Lunenfeld, we should temper our celebration with caution; we are engaged in a secret war between downloading and uploading-between passive consumption and active creation-and the outcome will shape our collective futures. In The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, Lunenfeld makes his case for using digital technologies to shift us from a consumption to a production model. He describes television as the "the high fructose corn syrup of the imagination" and worries that it can cause "cultural diabetes"; prescribes mindful downloading, meaningful uploading, and "info-triage" as cures; and offers tips for crafting "bespoke futures" in what he terms the era of "Web n.0" (interconnectivity to the nth power). He also offers a stand-alone genealogy of digital visionaries, distilling a history of the culture machine that runs from the Patriarchs (Vannevar Bush's WWII generation) to the Hustlers (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs) to the Searchers (Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google fame). After half a century of television-conditioned consumption/downloading, Lunenfeld tells us, we now find ourselves with a vast new infrastructure for uploading. We simply need to find the will to make the best of it.
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- Munster, Anna.
- 1st ed. - Dartmouth, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2006.
- Description
- Book — xii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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In "Materializing New Media", Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to "materialize" digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality. Her topics range from artistic experiments in body-computer interfaces to the impact that corporeal interaction and geopolitical circumstances have on producing new media art and culture. She argues that new media, materiality, perception, and artistic practices now mutually constitute "information aesthetics". Information aesthetics is concerned with new modes of sensory engagement in which distributed spaces and temporal variation play crucial roles. In analyzing the experiments that new media art performs with the materiality of space and time, Munster demonstrates how new media has likewise changed our bodies and those of others in global information culture. "Materializing New Media" calls for a re-examination of the roles of both body and affect in their relation to the virtual and to abstract codes of information. It offers a non-linear approach to aesthetics and art history based on a concept of "folding" that can discern certain kinds of proximities and continuations across distances in time (in particular between the Baroque and the digital). Finally, it analyzes digital culture through a logic of the differential rather than of the binary. This allows the author to overcome a habit of futurism, which until now has plagued analyses of new media art and culture. Technology is now not seen as surpassing the human body but continually reconfiguring it and constitutive of it.
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- Weizenbaum, Joseph.
- 1. Aufl. - Frankfurt : Suhrkamp, 2001.
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- Book — 139 p. ; 18 cm.
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- DeGrandpre, Richard J.
- 1st ed. - New York : AtRandom.com, c2001.
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- Book — xvi, 190 p. ; 22 cm.
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QA76.9 .C66 D44 2001 | Unknown |
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5. Informat͡sionnye voĭny [2000]
- Pochept͡sov, G. G. (Georgiĭ Georgievich)
- Moskva : Refl-buk : Vakler, 2000.
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- Book — 573 p. ; 21 cm.
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- Robertson, Douglas S.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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- Book — 200 p. ; 22 cm.
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- Introduction.
- 1: The Information Revolution.
- 2: "Theories of Everything" and the New Copernican Revolution.
- 3: The Computer Revolution in Science and Mathematics.
- 4: Uncomputable Numbers.
- 5: The Computer Revolution in Education.
- 6: Language in the Computer Age.
- 7: Decimal Delenda Est.
- 8: The Computer Revolution in the Arts.
- 9: The Impact of Computers on Everyday Life.
- 10: On Growth.
- 11: Conclusion.
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QA76.9 .C66 R618 1998 | Unknown |
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- 2nd ed. - San Diego : Academic Press, 1996.
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- Book — 961 p.
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- Heads Up! Mental Models for Travelling through the Computer World Dreams of Technological Utopianism Economic, Cultural, and Organization Dimensions of Computerization Computerization and the Transformation of Work Social Relationships in Electronic Forums Privacy and Social Control System Safety and Social Vulnerability Ethical Perspectives and Professional Responsibilities for Information and Computer Science Professionals Subject Index.
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QA76.9 .C66 C6377 1996 | Unknown |
- Rawlins, Gregory J. E.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
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- Book — x, 184 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Too many secrets-- infinite in all directions-- the power of ideas-- only connect-- the bloody crystal-- the life you save-- the machine stumbles-- a creation unknown.
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QA76.9 .C66 R39 1996 | Unknown |
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- Lanham, Richard A.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1993.
- Description
- Book — 285 p.
- Summary
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- Preface Acknowledgments
- 1: The Electronic Word: Literary Study and the Digital Revolution
- 2: Digital Rhetoric and the Digital Arts
- 3: Twenty Years After: Digital Decorum and Bi-stable Allusions
- 4: The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum
- 5: Electronic Textbooks and University Structures
- 6: Strange Lands, Strange Languages, and Useful Miracles
- 7: The "Q" Question
- 8: Elegies for the Book
- 9: Operating Systems, Attention Structures, and the Edge of Chaos
- 10: Conversation with a Curmudgeon Index.
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The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them." "The Electronic Word" is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh (R) . This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking "pages, " annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
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10. Persönlichkeit und Computer [1992]
- Opladen : Westdeutscher Verlag, c1992.
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- Book — 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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QA76.9 .C66 P48 1992 | Unknown |
- Boston : Academic Press, c1991.
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- Book — xviii, 758 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- The dreams of technological utopianism-- economic and organizational dimensions of computerization-- computerization and the transformation of work-- social relationships in electronic communities-- social control and privacy-- security and reliability-- ethical perspectives and professional responsibilities.
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12. Critical issues in the information age [1991]
- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1991.
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- Book — xvi, 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- Jennings, Karla.
- New York : Norton, 1990.
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- Book — 237 p. ; 22 cm.
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This humorous history of the computer offers a series of anecdotes of the way people view, use and misuse them, describes the uses and abuses to which they are put in personal and business life and underlines the way in which they have infiltrated all aspects of life. A typical tale from the book is one that recounts how a hacker in America found that his baby daughter had slipped a slice of processed cheese into his floppy disc sleeve - having watched him all too closely. The author, once completely computer illiterate, is a freelance writer, whose articles have appeared in the "New York Times", "Newsday", "Cosmopolitan" and others.
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- Novosibirsk : "Nauka," Sibirskoe otd-nie, 1990.
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- Book — 231 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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- Rowe, Christopher, 1942-
- 2nd ed. - Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1990.
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- Book — xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- Contrasting perspectives-- employment-- the factory-- the office-- the work organization-- management and unions-- citizenship-- the home-- a new work ethic?-- people and chips.
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- Penzias, Arno A.
- 1st ed. - New York : Norton, c1989.
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- Book — 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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In one human generation, the world's work has moved from muscle to machines that move information rather than goods. Driving the information revolution is the computer, a machine of unquestioned power but questionable intelligence. Arno Penzias, whose Bell Laboratories stands at the center of electronic innovation, explores here the relationship of human beings to the new electronic world. What, for instance, is information besides an assemblage of symbols, of numbers and words and pictures? When processing this information, how do machines extract meaning? How close can a machine come to human competence? How smart are computers likely to become? What does this mean for the human role in modern economic life? These are cutting-edge questions of technology and society answered here by the author, who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics.
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17. L'illusion informaticienne [1989]
- Pavé, Francis.
- Paris : Harmattan, c1989.
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- Book — 270 p. ; 22 cm.
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18. Implications of the computer revolution [1989]
- Bronzino, Joseph D.
- Hartford, Ct. : Trinity College, 1989?
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- Book — 148 p. : 26 cm.
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Online 19. The social history of the personal computer [1989]
- Felsenstein, Lee (Speaker)
- Stanford (Calif.), June 7, 1989
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- Video — 1 VHS tape
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- Stanford University, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford Computer Forum Distinguished Lecture Series, video recordings, 1978-1988
- Arsac, Jacques.
- Paris : Seuil, c1987.
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- Book — 250, [6] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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QA76.9.C66 A78 1987 | Available |
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