metaphor to help explain the dynamics of new media, alongside other critics like Marie-Laurie Ryan and her taxonomy of new media aesthetics. Manovich certainly signals the current obsession with the database in information culture. He attributes this shift from a culture of narrativity (as in novels and cinema) to one that represents the world as a list of unordered items (the database, the archive). Consequently he suggests that the 'database' and 'narrative' are apparently natural enemies. While I certainly agree that the notion of the master narrative structure is being challenged by the so-called computer age, I would contest the structuralizing view that a mechanical database and a narrative trajectory are, as Manovich asserts, "two competing imaginations, two basic creative impulses, two essential responses to the world." The apparently new 'cultural logic' of postmodernity is most clearly expressed in the proliferation of science fiction texts in Hollywood, at one level, as I argue in Hollywood Utopia (2005), this genre affirms that we are only truly human when we are in contact with what is not human. Science fiction and special effects foreground these already discussed new digital logics most explicitly and these will be explored through a reading of a number of science fiction fantasies focusing on the oeuvre of Spielberg. Sports Fans, Media Technology, and Participatory Texts , Mark Bresnan The promise that technological advances would put fans themselves in control of sports broadcasts remains unfulfilled. I argue that the advent of a more autonomous and participatory sports fan