Index
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: somebody said new media, wendy hui kyong chun 1
SECTION I
Archaeology of Multi-Media 17
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 19
1 Thomas Elsaesser
EARLY FILM HISTORY AND MULTI-MEDIA: AN ARCHAEOLOGY
OF POSSIBLE FUTURES? 23
2 Lev Manovich
THE LANGUAGE OF CULTURAL INTERFACES 37
3 Wolfgang Ernst
DIS/CONTINUITIES: DOES THE ARCHIVE BECOME METAPHORICAL
IN MULTI-MEDIA SPACE? 52
4 Jonathan Sterne 72
FORMAT THEORY
5 Lisa Parks
EARTH OBSERVATION AND SIGNAL TERRITORIES; STUDYING U.S. BROADCAST INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH HISTORICAL NETWORK MAPS, GOOGLE EARTH,
AND FIELDWORK 92
6 Lisa Nakamura
INDIGENOUS CIRCUITS: NAVAJO WOMEN ANDTHE RACIALIZATION OF EARLY ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURE 114
7 Steve Anderson
REFLECTIONS ON THE VIRTUAL WINDOW INTERACTIVE 132
With "Through The Virtual Window/1 a reflection by Tristan Rodman 139
SECTION II
Archives 141
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 143
8 Vannevar Bush
MEMEX REVISITED 147
9 Cornelia Vismann
OUT OF FILE, OUT OF MIND 158
10 Lisa Gitelman
"RAW DATA" IS AN OXYMORON 167
11 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
EXTREME INSCRIPTION: A GRAMMATOLOGY OF THE HARD DRIVE 177
12 Hito Steyerl
IN DEFENSE OFTHE POOR IMAGE 193
13 Rick Prelinger
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ARCHIVES 199
14 Ariella Azoulay
REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS AND STATE VIOLENCE 205
SECTION III
Power-Code 223
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 225
15 Wolfgang Hagen
THE STYLE OF SOURCES: REMARKS ON THE THEORY AND HISTORY 229
OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
16 Tara McPherson 247
U.S. OPERATING SYSTEMS AT MID-CENTURY: TH E INTERTWINING OF RACE AND UNIX
17 Friedrich A. Kittler 260
SCIENCE AS OPEN SOURCE PROCESS
18 Alexander R. Galloway
PROTOCOL VS. INSTITUTIONALIZATION 263
19 Jussi Parikka
VIRAL ECOLOGIES: A BRIEF MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOFTWARE AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE 275
20 Anna Watkins Fisher
USER BE USED: LEVERAGING THE PLAY IN THE SYSTEM 287
SECTION IV
Network-Events 301
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 303
21 Mary Ann Doane
INFORMATION, CRISIS, CATASTROPHE 307
22 McKenzie Wark
THE WEIRD GLOBAL MEDIA EVENT AND THE TACTICAL INTELLECTUAL [VERSION 3.0] 322
23 Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
THE POLITICS OF ORGANIZED NETWORKS: THE ART OF COLLECTIVE COORDINATION
AND THE SERIALITY OF DEMANDS 335
24 Nicholas Mirzoeff
YOU ARE NOT A LOAN: DEBT AND NEW MEDIA 346
25 Arvind Rajagopal
IMPERCEPTIBLE PERCEPTIONS IN OUR TECHNOLOGICAL MODERNITY 359
26 Vicente L. Rafael
THE CELL PHONE ANDTHE CROWD: MESSIANIC POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY
PHILIPPINES 370
27 Mercedes Bunz
THINGS ARE NOT TO BLAME: TECHNICAL AGENCY AND THING THEORY IN THE AGE
OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS 388
SECTION V
Use 401
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 403
28 Tiziana Terranova
FREE LABOR 407
29 danah boyd
PARTICIPATING IN THE ALWAYS-ON LIFESTYLE 425
30 Yi-Ping (Zona) Tsou
DIGITAL NATIVES IN THE NAME OF A CAUSE: FROM FLASH MOBS TO HUMAN
FLESH SEARCHES 429
31 Julie Levin Russo
MANY COPIES: CYLON TELEVISION AND HYBRID VIDEO 440
32 Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter
BIOPOWER PLAY: WORLD OF WARCRAFT 451
33 Lawrence Liang 472
POROUS LEGALITIES AND AVENUES OF PARTICIPATION *IC
34 Anna Everett
TOWARD A THEORY OF THE EGALITARIAN TECHNOSPHERE: HOW WIDE IS
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE? 482
SECTION VI
Desiring Data 509
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 511
35 Jean Baudriliard
THE MASSES:THE IMPLOSION OFTHE SOCIAL IN THE MEDIA 515
36 Thomas Y. Levin
RHETORIC OF THE TEMPORAL INDEX: SURVEILLANT NARRATION AND THE CINEMA OF "REALTIME" 523
37 Nishant Shah
EXPOSED NET PORN: PENETRATING REGULATION, BODIES, AND SEXUALITY IN539
THE AGE OFTHE INTERNET
38 E. Gabriel la Coleman
PHREAKS, HACKERS, AND TROLLS: THE POLITICS OF TRANSGRESSION 552
AND SPECTACLE
39 Taina Bucher
WANT TO BE ON THETOP? ALGORITHMIC POWER ANDTHETHREAT M , 566
OF INVISIBILITY ON FACEBOOK
40 Siva Vaidhyanathan
THE GOOGLIZATION OF US: UNIVERSAL SURVEILLANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL IMPERIALISM
41 Derek Gregory 579
FROM A VIEW TO A KILL: DRONES AND LATE MODERN WAR
42 Michael Stevenson
SLASHDOT, OPEN NEWS AND IN FORMATED MEDIA: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION
OF IMAGINED FUTURES AND WEB PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGY 616
SECTION VII
Re-Newing Media 631
INTRODUCTION, ANNA WATKINS FISHER 633
I43 Miriam Hansen
EARLY CINEMA, LATE CINEMA: PERMUTATIONS OFTHE PUBLIC SPHERE 637
44 Lynne Joyrich
TUBULAR VISION: THE INS AND OUTS OFTELEVISION STUDIES 649
45 Nicole Starosielski
RELAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE: SUBMERGED HISTORIES OF UNDERSEA NETWORKS 665
46 Ian Bogost
WHY GAMIFICATION IS BULLSHIT 678
47 Florian Cramer
WHAT IS 'POST-DIGITAL'? Oo9
48 Jennifer A. Gonzalez
THE FACE AND THE PUBLIC: RACE, SECRECY, AND DIGITAL ART PRACTICE 703
49 Kara Keeling 718
QUEER OS
Contributors 723
Permissions 731
Index 735
