The Arc and the Machine : Narrative and New Media.
By: Bassett, Caroline.
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BookPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007Copyright date: �2007Description: 1 online resource (225 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781847791610.Subject(s): Discourse analysis, NarrativeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 302.231 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Narrative machines -- 2 'Beautiful patterns of bits': cybernetics, interfaces, new media -- 3 Those with whom the archive dwells -- 4 Annihilating all that's made?Legends of virtual community -- 5 'Just because' stories:on Elephant -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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