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Author Bassett, Caroline

Title The arc and the machine : Narrative and new media
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents 9780719073427; 9780719073427; 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
Summary The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation 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. The book offers a careful explo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Digital media.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Digital media
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781847791610
1847791611
9781781700907
1781700907