New Media
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New Media |
| Declarations, Independence, and Text in the Information Age. Renewed interest in the preservation of the original manuscript of the Declaration provides an opportunity to compare how, in the emerging Information Age, we should consider documents and their text as well as to question what records professionals such as archivists should see as their priorities. Can we, from this time on, conceive of textual preservation in the same manner? This article discusses whether we can have the same sense of primary or sacred documents as we have in the past. Published in First Monday. By Richard J. Cox. |
| Cybercafe, Cybercommunity. Cafes hold a unique place in history as social and meeting places. Now that computers are making their way into the cafe culture, Crawfoot tries to understand how cafes foster community by looking at the history of cafes. Published in M/C. By Joseph Crawfoot. |
| Seen But Not Heard: Pop Culture Scapegoats and the Media Culture Hierarchy. Caldwell argues that fictional media properties like sitcoms, movies, and music are treated with contempt and derision when they try to represent issues that cut across racial, class, and gender boundaries of a culture. Despite this, these properties are paradoxically granted great causative power whenever violence is committed in real life. Published in M/C 1999. By Nick Caldwell. |
| Remembering the Week After Next. McCormack compares the Internet to the early days of radio and questions whether we are learning from our experience with emerging technologies. Published in M/C. By Paul McCormack. |
| What's the Story: The Unfulfilled Desire for Closure on the Web. The desire for closure is a powerful one. In linearly progressing media the reader knows when she has finished an article or book. On the Web the reader is only able to follow as far as the author has linked. Bruns asks just where does a website end. Published in M/C 1999. By Axel Bruns. |
| Future Schlock: Anique Roadshow. An essay examining what gets lost when we put our possessions on the auction block. Published in FEED 2000. By Erik Davis. |
| Mobile Phone Dating. Can mobile phones improve your sex life? See what the mobile phone has done for dating in Hong Kong. Published in FEED 2000. By Oliver August. |
| Birth of a Digital Nation. Katz examines whether the 1996 election marked the rise of postpolitics and the birth of the Digital Nation. Published in WIRED 1997. By Jon Katz. |
| The Net as Canvas. Web art is being included in this year's Whitney Biennial, but will the museum's validation make it any easier to buy, sell or even define Internet art? Published in Salon 2000. By Janelle Brown. |
| Cyborg Subjectivity:Millenial Fashion Statment. Luckman explores some of the ways in which the traditional determinants of class are being redefined in the light of the capitalist information economy. Published in M/C 1999. By Susan Luckman. |
| Invading the Ivory Tower: Hypertext and the New Dilletante Scholars. Bruns explains how hypertext linking is changing academia and the way scholars convey information. Published in M/C. By Axel Bruns. |
| Why the Future Doesn't Need Us. The cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems explains why he thinks robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology are threatening to make humans an endangered species. Published in WIRED 2000. By Bill Joy. |
| M/C is a journal of media and culture, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, and published electronically on the Web. M/C covers the goings-on in today's media and culture environments. |