Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Mechanisms

New Media and the Forensic Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between forensic materiality and formal materiality, Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyces Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibsons electronic poem Agrippa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press / The MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780262517409
• ISBN-10: 026251740X
• Artikelnr.: 34437536

Autorenporträt

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and the author of the award-winning Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press).