[-empyre-] Re: new media

[Nick Montfort <nickm@linc.cis.upenn.edu>]

                                        Philadelphia
Nemo,

> And what would define "new media"?

Something many have thought about; In Lev Manovich's introduction to the
New Media Reader, he offers eight different definitions. My short answer
is "the creative and communicative uses of the computer." Studies that
enlighten our understanding of this topic should be welcome in new media.
I don't see new media as a bin of objects that includes or excludes an
e-text of Moby Dick, but as a discipline. It can consider whatever is
helpful in understanding creative and artistic computing.

> >And I agree that game studies should also be a field.
>
> But aren't computer games also
> "new media"?

Of course. It's pretty common for different academic disciplines to study
some of the same things.

-Nick Montfort
 http://nickm.com  nickm@nickm.com
 My new book, Twisty Little Passages: http://nickm.com/twisty


On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Nemo Nox wrote:

>
> Nick Montfort wrote:
> >If I were to say "new media is a field" it would just
> >be a shorthand for saying that the topic deserves to
> >be studied on its own terms, with methodologies and
> >appaoches that are native to new media.
>
> And what would define "new media"?
> The support where it is presented?
> The support used to create it? The
> languages? How is an audiovisual
> narrative in Flash different from
> an audiovisual narrative in VHS?
> Is the e-book "Moby Dick" the same
> thing as the book "Moby Dick"?
>
> >And I agree that game studies should also be a field.
>
> But aren't computer games also
> "new media"?
>
>
> Nemo Nox
> http://www.nemonox.com
>
>