
Digital Material
Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology
Amsterdam University Press
Published on 4. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-90-8964-068-0 (ISBN)
Description
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions are emerging now that new media are being taken for granted, and which riddles are still unsolved? Is contemporary digital culture indeed all about 'you', the participating user, or do we still not really understand the digital machinery and how this constitutes us as 'you'? The contributors to the present book, all employed in teaching and researching new media and digital culture, assembled their 'digital material' into an anthology, covering issues ranging from desktop metaphors to Web 2.0 ecosystems, from touch screens to blogging and e-learning, from role-playing games and cybergothic music to wireless dreams. Together the contributions provide a showcase of current research in the field, from what may be called a 'digital-materialist' perspective.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Academic
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
548 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-068-0 (9789089640680)
DOI
10.5117/9789089640680
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Ann-Sophie Lehmann | Joost Raessens | Mirko Tobias Schaefer
Digital Material
Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology
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10/2025
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Ann-Sophie Lehmann | Joost Raessens | Mirko Tobias Schaefer
Digital Material
Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
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Available for download
Persons
Ann-Sophie Lehmann is professor for art history & material culture at the University of Groningen. Her research has a process-based, transhistorical approach and shows how materials, tools, and practices partake in the meaning making of art. Joost Raessens is Full Professor and Chair of Media Theory at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Mirko Tobias Schaefer is Associate Professor of AI, Data & Society at Utrecht University's research area 'Governing the Digital Society' and the Department for Information and Computing Sciences. Mirko is co-founder and Sciences lead of the Data School. He studies the datafication of public management and engages in the development of responsible and accountable AI and data practices. Sybille Lammes is Full Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at The Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) at Leiden University. She has been a visiting Senior Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, and has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, as well as the media studies departments of Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. Her background is in media studies and play studies, which she has always approached from an interdisciplinary angle, including cultural studies, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and critical geography. She is co-editor of Playful identities: The ludification of digital media cultures (Amsterdam University Press 2015), Mapping time (Manchester University Press 2018; forthcoming) and The Routledge handbook of interdisciplinary research methods (Routledge 2018; forthcoming). She is an ERC laureate and has been the PI of numerous research projects.
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Content
Table of contents - 6 Introduction - 8 Processor - 20 Serious games from an apparatus perspective - 22 Empower yourself, defend freedom! - 36 Formatted spaces of participation - 50 Digital objects in e-learning environments - 66 Memory - 80 The vanishing points of mobile communication - 82 The work of art in the age of digital recombination - 96 The design of world citizenship - 108 Network - 134 Moving beyond the artefact - 136 Participation inside? - 148 Challenging the magic circle - 160 Renaissance now! - 174 Screen - 186 What you get is what you see - 188 The pervasive interface - 200 Grasping the screen - 210 Terra incognita - 224 Keyboard - 238 Conceptualizing forums and blogs as public sphere - 240 Interfacing by material metaphors - 254 Hidden practice - 268 About the authors - 284 Index - 286