The digital dialectic
Subtitle: new essays on new media
By: edited by Peter Lunenfeld.
Contributors: Lunenfeld, Peter.
Series: Leonardo; Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Computers and civilization; Digital media; Technology -- Social aspects; Science -- Social aspects
Description: The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology.

The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.