TY - BOOK ID - 30658878 TI - Rethinking media change AU - Thorburn, David AU - Jenkins, Henry AU - Seawell, Brad PY - 2003 SN - 0262284944 0585480257 9780262284943 9780585480251 0262201461 9780262201469 0262701073 9780262701075 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Mass media KW - Journalism & Communications KW - Communication & Mass Media KW - History. KW - History KW - DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History KW - DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30658878 AB - The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition--patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another. ER -