Hawk, B., Rieder, D. M., & Oviedo, O. (Eds.) (2008). Small tech: The culture of digital tools (Electronic Mediations). University of Minnesota Press.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies
by Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder
 
Traditional Software in New Ecologies
Data Visualization as New Abstraction and as Anti-Sublime
by Lev Manovich
Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice
by Adrian Miles
Technopolitics, Blogs, and Emergent Media Ecologies: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
by Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner
Remembering Dinosaurs: Toward an Archaeological Understanding of Digital Photo Manipulation
by Karla Saari Kitalong
Cut, Copy, and Paste
by Lance Strate
Dreamweaver and the Procession of Simulations: What You See Is Not Why You Get What You Get
by Sean D. Williams
Revisiting the Matter and Manner of Linking in New Media
by Collin Gifford Brooke
ScriptedWriting() { Exploring Generative Dimensions of Writing in Flash Actionscript
by David M. Rieder
 
Small Tech and Cultural Contexts
Overhearing: The Intimate Life of Cell Phones
by Jenny Edbauer Rice
I Am a DJ, I Am What I Say: The Rise of Podcasting
by Paul Cesarini
Walking with Texts: Using PDAs to Manage Textual Information
by Jason Swarts
Text Messaging: Rhetoric in a New Keypad
by Wendy Warren Austin
Beyond Napster: Peer-to-Peer Technology and Network Culture
by Michael Pennell
Communication Breakdown: The Postmodern Space of Google
by Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Let There Be Light in the Digital Darkroom: Digital Ecologies and the New Photography
by Robert A. Emmons Jr.
“A Demonstration of Practice”: The Real Presence of Digital Video
by Veronique Chance
Buffering Bergson: Matter and Memory in 3D Games
by Julian Oliver
Shifting Subjects in Locative Media
by Teri Rueb
 
Future Technologies and Ambient Environments
Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool: Learning by Configuring
by James J. Sosnoski
Digital Provocations and Applied Aesthetics: Projects in Speculative Computing
by Johanna Drucker
Dehumanization, Rhetoric, and the Design of Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces
by Isabel Pedersen
Sousveillance: Wearable and Digital Tools in Surveilled Environments
by Jason Nolan, Steve Mann, and Barry Wellman
Ambient Video: The Transformation of the Domestic Cinematic Experience
by Jim Bizzocchi
Sound in Domestic Virtual Environments
by Jeremy Yuille
Getting Real and Feeling in Control: Haptic Interfaces
by Joanna Castner Post
Digital Craft and Digital Touch: Hands-on Design with an “Undo” Button
by Mark Paterson
 

Book Description
The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.

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