Wardrip-Fruin N., Montfort N. The New Media Reader

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. — 823 p. — ISBN: 0262232278.This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs-many of them now almost impossible to find-that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were originally published between World War II-when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared-and the emergence of the World Wide Web-when they entered the mainstream of public life. The texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines.Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of four collections published by the MIT Press: with Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2003), Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media(2007), and Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2009). He is the author of Expressive Processing, published by the MIT Press in 2009.Nick Montfort is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages: A New Approach to Interactive Fiction.AdvisorsPreface: The New Media Reader, A User's Manual
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick MontfortPerspectives on New Media: Two IntroductionsInventing the Medium
Janet MurrayNew Media from Borges to HTML
Lev ManovichThe Complex, the Changing, and the IndeterminateThe Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Jorge Luis BorgesAs We May Think (1945)
Vannevar BushComputing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
Alan TuringMen, Machines, and the World About (1954)
Norbert WienerMan-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
J. C. R. Licklider"Happenings" in the New York Scene (1961)
Allan KaprowThe Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin (1963)
William S. BurroughsFrom Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962)
Douglas EngelbartSketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)
Ivan Sutherland1The Construction of Change (1964)
Roy Ascott1A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate (1965)
Theodor H. Nelson1Six Selections by the Oulipo (1961-1981)
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Yours for the Telling
A Brief History of the Oulipo
For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature
Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment
Prose and Anticombinatorics
Raymond Queneau, Jean Lescure, Claude Berge, Paul Fournel and Italo CalvinoCollective Media, Personal MediaTwo Selections by Marshall Mcluhan
The Medium is the Message, 1964 (from Understanding Media)
The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society, 1969 (from The Gutenberg Galaxy)Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology
From "The Garden Party", Billy Kluver, 1961
From 9 Evenings, E.A.T., 1966
[Press Release], E.A.T., 1966
The Pavillion, Billy Kluver, 1972Cybernated Art (1966)
Nam June PaikA Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect (1968)
Douglas Engelbart and William EnglishFrom Software-Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art (1970)
Theodor H. Nelson, Nicholas Negroponte and Les LevineRequiem for the Media (1972)
Jean BaudrillardThe Technology and the Society (1974)
Raymond WilliamsFrom Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1970-1974)
Theodor H. NelsonFrom Theatre of the Oppressed (1974)
Augusto BoalFrom Soft Architecture Machines (1975)
Nicholas NegroponteFrom Computer Power and Human Reason (1976)
Joseph WeizenbaumResponsive Environments (1977)
Myron W. KruegerPersonal Dynamic Media (1977)
Alan Kay and Adele GoldbergFrom A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Gilles Deleuze and Félix GuattariDesign, Activity, and ActionFrom Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980)
Seymour A. Papert"Put-That-There": Voice and Gesture at the Graphics Interface (1980)
Richard A. BoltProposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive (from Literary Machines) (1981)
Theodor H. NelsonWill There Be Condominiums in Data Space? (1982)
Bill ViolaThe Endless Chain (from The Media Monopoly) (1983)
Ben BagdikianDirect Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages (1983)
Ben ShneidermanVideo Games and Computer Holding Power (from The Second Self) (1984)
Sherry TurkleA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985)
Donna HarawayThe GNU Manifesto (1985)
Richard StallmanUsing Computers: A Direction for Design (from Understanding Computers and Cognition) (1986)
Terry Winograd and Fernando FloresTwo Selections by Brenda Laurel
The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them, 1991 (from Computers as Theater)
Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World, 1986Towards a New Classification of the Tele-Information Services (1986)
Jan L. Bordewijk and Ben van KaamRevolution, Resistance, and the Launch of the WebMythinformation (1986)
Langdon WinnerFrom Plans and Situated Actions (1987)
Lucy SuchmanSiren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts (1988)
Michael JoyceThe Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems (1988)
Bill NicholsThe Fantasy Beyond Control (1990)
Lynn HershmanCardboards Computers (1991)
Pelle Ehn and Morten KyngThe Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1991)
Chip Morningstar and F. Randall FarmerSeeing and Writing (from Writing Space) (1991)
Jay David BolterYou Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media (1991)
Stuart MoulthropThe End of Books (1992)
Robert CooverTime Frames (from Understanding Comics) (1993)
Scott McCloudSurveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy (1994)
Philip E. AgreNonlinearity and Literary Theory (1994)
Espen AarsethNomadic Power and Cultural Resistance (1994)
Critical Art EnsembleThe World Wide Web (1994)
Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Ari Loutonen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and Arthur SecretPermissions