Control and Freedom
- 368 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
Kyong Chun Knihy
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun je výskumníčka Canada 150 v oblasti nových médií, ktorá spája svoje znalosti v oblasti systémového inžinierstva a anglickej literatúry. Jej práca sa ponára do digitálnych médií, skúmajúc zložité vzťahy medzi technológiou, mocou a ľudskou psychikou v digitálnom veku. Prostredníctvom hlbokej analýzy a bystrých postrehov Chun osvetľuje, ako sa digitálne prostredie formuje a ako toto formovanie spätne ovplyvňuje našu identitu a spôsob, akým vnímame realitu. Jej prístup ponúka kritický pohľad na neustále sa vyvíjajúci svet nových médií.
Updating to Remain the Same
- 246 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual-when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.
"Chun investigates the centrality of race, gender, class, and sexuality to "Big Data" and network analytics"-- Provided by publisher
New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates "programmed visions", which seek to shape and predict--even embody--a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability. Chun argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known--its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware--makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture. (back cover)