Rethinking Media Change
Subtitle: The Aesthetics of Transition (Media in Transition)
Contributors: David Thorburn (Editor); Henry Jenkins (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780262701075
Subjects: Media Studies; Technology; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; General; History
First sentence: Set aside the nineteenth-century tonalities, and this passage could belong to our own era.
Description: This collection of essays centre on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition - patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms and cultures.