Small TechThe Culture of Digital Tools
Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, Editors
Electronic Mediations, Volume 22
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis • London
(forthcoming 2008)
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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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies
Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder
Traditional Software in New Ecologies
Data Visualization as New Abstraction and as Anti-Sublime
Lev Manovich
Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice
Adrian Miles
Technopolitics, Blogs, and Emergent Media Ecologies: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner
Remembering Dinosaurs: Toward an Archaeological Understanding of Digital Photo Manipulation
Karla Saari Kitalong
Cut, Copy, and Paste
Lance Strate
Dreamweaver and the Procession of Simulations: What You See Is Not Why You Get What You Get
Sean D. Williams
Revisiting the Matter and Manner of Linking in New Media
Collin Gifford Brooke
ScriptedWriting() { Exploring Generative Dimensions of Writing in Flash Actionscript
David M. Rieder
Small Tech and Cultural Contexts
Overhearing: The Intimate Life of Cell Phones
Jenny Edbauer Rice
I Am a DJ, I Am What I Say: The Rise of Podcasting
Paul Cesarini
Walking with Texts: Using PDAs to Manage Textual Information
Jason Swarts
Text Messaging: Rhetoric in a New Keypad
Wendy Warren Austin
Beyond Napster: Peer-to-Peer Technology and Network Culture
Michael Pennell
Communication Breakdown: The Postmodern Space of Google
Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Let There Be Light in the Digital Darkroom: Digital Ecologies and the New Photography
Robert A. Emmons Jr.
“A Demonstration of Practice”: The Real Presence of Digital Video
Veronique Chance
Buffering Bergson: Matter and Memory in 3D Games
Julian Oliver
Shifting Subjects in Locative Media
Teri Rueb
Future Technologies and Ambient Environments
Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool: Learning by Configuring
James J. Sosnoski
Digital Provocations and Applied Aesthetics: Projects in Speculative Computing
Johanna Drucker
Dehumanization, Rhetoric, and the Design of Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces
Isabel Pedersen
Sousveillance: Wearable and Digital Tools in Surveilled Environments
Jason Nolan, Steve Mann, and Barry Wellman
Ambient Video: The Transformation of the Domestic Cinematic Experience
Jim Bizzocchi
Sound in Domestic Virtual Environments
Jeremy Yuille
Getting Real and Feeling in Control: Haptic Interfaces
Joanna Castner Post
16. Digital Craft and Digital Touch: Hands-on Design with an “Undo” Button
Mark Paterson