The Poetics of Digital Media

ISBN-13: 9780745651316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Paul Frosh

Opis

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence.

Recenzje

'The Poetics of Digital Media is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of digital media as a technological, social and symbolic environment. It will be a key point of reference in the study of digital culture for years to come.' Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political Science 'When I find myself puzzled by some weird thing in digital visual culture, Paul Frosh is my go-to thinker. This book counters the wide suspicion that poetics is formalist or frivolous and shows how the deepest questions of justice, ethics and the public world are poetic ones. It is a guide for the perplexed in these digital times.' John Durham Peters, Yale University

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments and Author′s Note on the Cover Image  
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• Prologue                                                                                                        
• Monster′s Inc. as a Poetic Manifesto                                                                     
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• 1. Introduction
• Media Poetics
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• 2. Composite                                                              
• The Morality of Inattention in Pre–digital Media
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• 3.  Screenshot                                                                                    
• The ′Photographic′ Witnessing of Digital Worlds
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• 4. Tag                         
• Naming Bodies and Incarnating Selves in Social Media
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• 5. Selfie                                                                                              
• The Digital Image as Gesture and Performance
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• 6. Interface                                                                            
• Remediated Witnessing and Embodied Response
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• 7. Conclusion
• To Infinity and Beyond
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• References

O autorze

Paul Frosh is Professor of Communications and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.