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Interactive Realism
Daniel Mark Downes
其他書名
The Poetics of Cyberspace
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005
主題Computers / GeneralCOMPUTERS / Information TechnologyComputers / Internet / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Communication StudiesSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN07735292099780773529205
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uVfTmw82BY4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋It is commonplace in our digitized world to think that technology is the primary agent of psychological and social change. In Interactive Realism Daniel Downes argues that it continues to be people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the "tranformative turn" in media studies. Distinguishing between the Internet, a communication system, and cyberspace, an environment for human exchange, the author provides a framework for exploring the metaphors and images used in cyberspace to represent and model social reality. He clarifies how these symbolic interactions are linked to the technologies used to create, store, and transmit them and to their social context. Drawing on examples from digital games, web design, film, and photography, the author shows how individual experiences are calibrated by technology and how digital communication contributes to broader processes such as community building and public memory. Downes articulates a nuanced form of media ecology that does not focus on a single cause of change but rather on the relationships between embodied experience, communication systems, and representations. Interactive Realism establishes a new method for understanding the importance of digital media to the construction of social reality.