The language of new media /
Lev Manovich.
- Cambridge ; London : MIT Press, 2001.
- 354 p. : ill. b&w ; 23 cm.
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Introduction -- Ch. 1. What is new media? -- Ch. 2. The interface -- Ch. 3. The operations -- Ch. 4. The illusions -- Ch. 5. The forms -- Ch. 6. What is cinema?
Offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of New Media. Placing new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. It discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. It also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database.