| CONTENTS |
| Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies
by Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder |
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| Traditional Software in New Ecologies |
Data Visualization as New Abstraction and as Anti-Sublime
by Lev Manovich
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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
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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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