Small tech : the culture of digital tools / Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, editors. - xxiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. - Electronic mediations ; 22 . - Electronic mediations ; v. 22. .

Includes bibliographical references.

On small tech and complex ecologies / Date visualization as new abstraction and as anti-sublime / Softvideography : digital video as postliterate practice / Technopolitics, blogs, and emergent media ecologies : a critical/reconstructive approach / Remembering dinosaurs : toward an archaeological understanding of digital photo manipulation / Cut, copy, and paste / Dreamweaver and the procession of simulations : what you see is not why you get what you get / Revisiting the matter and manner of linking in new media / Scripted writing Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder -- Lev Manovich -- Adrian Miles -- Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- Karla Saari Kitalong -- Lance Strate -- Sean D. Williams -- Collin Gifford Brooke -- David M. Rieder -- Jenny Edbauer Rice -- Paul Cesarini -- Jason Swarts -- Wendy Warren Austin -- Michael Pennell -- Johndan Johnson-Eilola -- Robert A. Emmons Jr. -- Veronique Chance -- Julian Oliver -- Teri Rueb -- James J. Sosnoski -- Johanna Drucker -- Isabel Pedersen -- Jason Nolan, Steve Mann, and Barry Wellman -- Jim Bizzocchi -- Jeremy Yuille -- Joanna Castner Post -- Mark Paterson. Introduction,

"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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Telematics
Miniature electronic equipment--Social aspects
Pocket computers--Social aspects
Household electronics--Social aspects
Cyberspace
Mass media--Technological innovations
Digital music players--Social aspects
Cell phones--Social aspects

TK5105.6 / .S62 2008

303.483