Web aesthetics
Subtitle: how digital media affect culture and society
By: Vito Campanelli ; [translation from Italian, Francesco Bardo]
Contributors: Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Series: Studies in network cultures; Studies in network cultures
Publisher: NAi Publishers; Institute of Network Cultures; Brand: NAi Publishers; nai010 publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rotterdam; Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789056627706
Subjects: World Wide Web; Aesthetics; Art and the Internet; Social aspects; Influence; Digital media; Mass media and culture; Mass media; Internet
Other titles: How digital media affect culture and society
Description: We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural forms, the implications of aesthetical philosophy have been sorely neglected. Vito Campanelli explores network forms through the prism of aethetics and thus presents and open invitation to transcend the inherent limitations of the current debate about digital culture. The web is the medium that stands between the new media and society and, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour, framing aesthetic forms and moulding contemporary culture and society. Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, such as social networks, peer-to-peer networks and 'remix culture', and reduces them to their historical premises, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).