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The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.The book offers a careful explo

Digital media. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- age of information. --- cultural production. --- digital age. --- information technology. --- informational culture. --- interpretation. --- narrative. --- new media. --- sensation. --- techno-cultural writing.