Index

Table of Contents
  Series Foreword p. ix
1 Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Transition p. 1
I Media Changes  
2 Web Paradox p. 19
3 Historicizing Media in Transition p. 23
4 Re-Newing Old Technologies: Astonishment, Second Nature, and the Uncanny in Technology from the Previous Turn-of -the-Century p. 39
5 How Users Define New Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph p. 61
6 Books Are Dead, Long Live Books p. 81
7 Help or Hindrance? The History of the Book and Electronic Media p. 95
8 Historical Perspectives on the Book and Information Technology p. 117
9 Potholes on the Information Superhighways: Congress as a Publisher in Nineteenth-Century America p. 137
10 Prophetic Peasants and Bourgeois Pamphleteers: The Camisards Represented in Print, 1685-1710 p. 163
11 Redefining the Home Screen: Technological Convergence as Trauma and Business Plan p. 191
II Emerging Forms and Practices  
12 Homer to Home Page: Designing Digital Books p. 203
13 Reflections on Interactivity p. 217
14 Forms of Future p. 227
15 Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl p. 239
16 "Let's Be Going": A Parent Reads GeekCereal p. 253
17 Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture p. 261
18 Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture p. 281
III Visual Culture  
19 Immersion in the Virtual Ornament: Contemporary "Movie Ride" Films p. 315
20 The Virtual Window p. 337
21 Architectures of the Senses: Neo-Baroque Entertainment Spectacles p. 355
22 Media Technology and Museum Display: A Century of Accomodation and Conflict p. 375
  Contributors p. 319
  Index p. 395