Small tech : the culture of digital tools / Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction, On small tech and complex ecologies / Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder -- Date visualization as new abstraction and as anti-sublime / Lev Manovich -- Softvideography : digital video as postliterate practice / Adrian Miles -- Technopolitics, blogs, and emergent media ecologies : a critical/reconstructive approach / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- Remembering dinosaurs : toward an archaeological understanding of digital photo manipulation / Karla Saari Kitalong -- Cut, copy, and paste / Lance Strate -- Dreamweaver and the procession of simulations : what you see is not why you get what you get / Sean D. Williams -- Revisiting the matter and manner of linking in new media / Collin Gifford Brooke -- Scripted writing() {exploring generative dimensions of writing in flash ActionScript / David M. Rieder -- Overhearing : the intimate life of cell phones / Jenny Edbauer Rice -- I am a DJ, I am what I say : the rise of podcasting / Paul Cesarini -- Walking with texts : using PDAs to manage textual information / Jason Swarts -- Text messaging : rhetoric in a new keypad / Wendy Warren Austin -- Beyond Napster : peer-to-peer technology and network culture / Michael Pennell -- Communication breakdown : the postmodern space of Google / Johndan Johnson-Eilola -- Let there be light in the digital darkroom : digital ecologies and the new photography / Robert A. Emmons Jr. -- "A demonstration of practice" : the real presence of digital video / Veronique Chance -- Buffering Bergson : matter and memory in 3D games / Julian Oliver -- Shifting subjects in locative media / Teri Rueb -- Virtual reality as a teaching tool : learning by configuring / James J. Sosnoski -- Digital provocations and applied aesthetics : projects in speculative computing / Johanna Drucker -- Dehumanization, rhetoric, and the design of wearable augmented reality interfaces / Isabel Pedersen -- Sousveillance : wearable and digital tools in surveilled environments / Jason Nolan, Steve Mann, and Barry Wellman -- Ambient video : the transformation of the domestic cinematic experience / Jim Bizzocchi -- Sound in domestic virtual environments / Jeremy Yuille -- Getting real and feeling in control : haptic interfaces / Joanna Castner Post -- Digital craft and digital touch : hands-on design with an "undo" button / Mark Paterson.

"The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments. Contributors: Wendy Warren Austin, Edinboro U; Jim Bizzocchi, Simon Fraser U; Collin Gifford Brooke, Syracuse U; Paul Cesarini, Bowling Green State U; Veronique Chance, U of London; Johanna Drucker, U of Virginia; Jenny Edbauer, Penn State U; Robert A. Emmons Jr., Rutgers U; Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson U; Richard Kahn, UCLA; Douglas Kellner, UCLA; Karla Saari Kitalong, U of Central Florida; Steve Mann, U of Toronto; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Adrian Miles, RMIT U; Jason Nolan, Ryerson U; Julian Oliver; Mark Paterson, U of the West of England, Bristol; Isabel Pedersen, Ryerson U; Michael Pennell, U of Rhode Island; Joanna Castner Post, U of Central Arkansas; Teri Rueb, Rhode Island School of Design; James J. Sosnoski; Lance State, Fordham U; Jason Swarts, North Carolina State U; Barry Wellman, U of Toronto; Sean D. Williams, Clemson U; Jeremy Yuille, RMIT U. Byron Hawk is assistant professor of English at George Mason University. David M. Rieder is assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University. Ollie Oviedo is associate professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University."--Publisher description.

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