Digital Material: Tracking New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009

摘要

This is an edited collection marking the 10th anniversary of when the subject of 'new media 'was first taught in the New Media and Digital Culture programme at the University of Utrecht. The editors provide a brief history of new media studies from early Utopian and dystopian speculations with an emphasis on the immaterial nature of the virtual world, a realm 'out there', initially seen as uninfluenced by the rest of daily life. Initial academic approaches rooted in more traditional media studies asked how older forms of media were being mediated by digital culture. More recently there has been a 'material turn', an interest in how online practices are embedded in everyday life.