NewMedia Reader

This Reader draws together hard to find texts, videos, and computer programmes and seeks to "articulate the history of a field that has too often gone unheard" by entrepreneurs and academics. It attempts to "uncover and assemble a representative collection of critical thoughts, events, and developments from the computer's humanistic and artistic past, its conception not as an advanced calculator but as a new medium, or as enabling new media."

Short introductions to each of the selections are included which place the work in its historical context and explain its significance.

The book is broken into these sections:

• Perspectives on New Media: Two Introductions
• I. The Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate
• II. Collective Media, Personal Media
• III. Design, Activity, and Action
• IV. Revolution, Resistance, and the Launch of the Web

The New Media Reader contains three types of material:

• Foundational Writings
• Functioning Programs
• Digitized Video

Click here for the preface.