The Arc and the Machine
Subtitle: Narrative and the New Media
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780719073427
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Mass Media - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: This is a defence of narrative in an age of information. It convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.