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February 14th 2003
by The MIT Press
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Hardcover, 837 pages
isbn
0262232278
(isbn13: 9780262232272)
description
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the fou...more
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Read in November, 2007
I read most of these readings as part of a multimedia class. Some were more readable than others... I really enjoyed Borge's Garden of Forking Paths and Bush's Memex, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, the Burroughs, and much more. McLuhan was hard to grasp or maybe just hard to agree with. The introductions to each reading do a great job of putting it into context. The reader in general has a broad range of selections that relate to new media in many different ways - a lot of the book is about th...more
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11/01/08
Nissa
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this is full of essays and other works influential in the history and development of new media theory. awesome, interesting stuff, including the GNU manifesto, works by Borges, Engelbart, McLuhan, Baudrillard and Berners-Lee, to name a few. it comes with a CD that has lots of other important and interesting works like Doug Engelbart's demonstration of the mouse, early Atari and Apple II games, Hunt the Wumpus :-) and all kinds of early interactive essays, poems and stories.
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Some very interesting essays and some not so much. A few essays were too esoteric and just plain boring, some were quite intriguing. I particularly liked reading the ideas of future computing from the mid-50's to early-60's. Surprisingly, they weren't too far off on a lot of things like relational databases, desktops, and personal computing.
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09/12/07
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Started this, should have finished it. From Amaz: "Course Reader for Berkeley Art 23"
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05/06/08
Cyane
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Read in September, 2007
This is an interesting all background/influence book for a history of new media.
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