Il linguaggio dei nuovi media

What started out very, very tediously eventually built to an interesting discussion, then receded again into tedium only to stop suddenly without a rewarding or insightful conclusion. The author's fixation on cinema was obsessive to the point of distraction: I often felt that the book's title should Leggi tutto

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media . Cambridge: MIT P, 2001. In The Language of New Media (2001), Lev Manovich draws on the history of cinema, photography, art, design, and telecommunications to theorize about new media. Primary to my concerns are his five "principles of new media," which he cha Leggi tutto

It’s certainly interesting to read a book-length exploration of such an idiosyncratic and hyper-personal theory of media art (clearly largely built off of Manovich’s coming of age in the Cold War-era Soviet Union), but what was “new media” in 2001 is no longer remotely new, and Manovich seems primar Leggi tutto

Lev Manovich is my hero since I read this. it inspired 3 independent studies my last year in college. and it's helped shape a lot of my in progress plans to revolutionize the world ;-) it'll (probably) change the way you see and analyze what goes on in the increasingly technologized world. but just s Leggi tutto

confusing!

A bit dated in its examples, Manovich's descriptions and even conjecture about society's transition to a digital basis is prescient and persuasive for even contemporary readers. Some of his verbiage gets to be a bit much and things that he emphasizes turn out to be not as important today as he think Leggi tutto

I have finally found it....the most painful theory reading I have ever been assigned in any class ever. While conceptually, the ideas about new media presented were interesting and give interesting lens of analysis this was...so just so inaccessibly dull.