Software Takes Command
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cul...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Bloomsbury Academic
2013
Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Academic & Professional |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics |
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| ISBN: | 9781472544988, 1472544986, 9781623568177, 1623567459, 162356817X, 9781623567453, 9781623562618, 1623562619, 9781623566722, 162356672X |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - Alan Kay’s universal media machine - Understanding metamedia - Hybridization - Soft evolution - Media design - Conclusion
- FC -- Half title -- International Texts In Critical Media Aesthetics -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Understanding media -- Software, or the engine of contemporary societies -- What is software studies? -- Cultural software -- Media applications -- From documents to performances -- Why the history of cultural software does not exist -- Summary of the book's narrative -- PART 1 Inventing media software -- 1 Alan Kay's universal media machine -- Appearance versus function -- "Simulation is the central notion of the Dynabook" -- The permanent extendibility -- The computer as a metamedium -- 2 Understanding metamedia -- The building blocks -- Media-independent vs. media-specific techniques -- Inside Photoshop -- There is only software -- PART 2 Hybridization and evolution -- 3 Hybridization -- Hybridity vs. multimedia -- The evolution of a computer metamedium -- Hybridity: examples -- Strategies of hybridization -- 4 Soft evolution -- Algorithms and data structures -- The metamedium or the monomedium? -- The evolution of media species -- PART 3 Software in action -- 5 Media design -- After Effects and the invisible revolution -- The aesthetics of hybridity -- Deep remixability -- Layers, transparency, compositing -- After Effects interface: from "time-based" to "composition-based" -- 3D space as a media design platform -- Import/export: design workflow -- Variable form -- Amplification -- Conclusion -- Software, hardware, and social media -- Media after software -- Software epistemology -- Index
- Intro -- International Texts In Critical Media Aesthetics -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Understanding media -- Software, or the engine of contemporary societies -- What is software studies? -- Cultural software -- Media applications -- From documents to performances -- Why the history of cultural software does not exist -- Summary of the book's narrative -- PART 1 Inventing media software -- 1 Alan Kay's universal media machine -- Appearance versus function -- "Simulation is the central notion of the Dynabook" -- The permanent extendibility -- The computer as a metamedium -- 2 Understanding metamedia -- The building blocks -- Media-independent vs. media-specific techniques -- Inside Photoshop -- There is only software -- PART 2 Hybridization and evolution -- 3 Hybridization -- Hybridity vs. multimedia -- The evolution of a computer metamedium -- Hybridity: examples -- Strategies of hybridization -- 4 Soft evolution -- Algorithms and data structures -- What is a "medium"? -- The metamedium or the monomedium? -- The evolution of media species -- PART 3 Software in action -- 5 Media design -- After Effects and the invisible revolution -- The aesthetics of hybridity -- Deep remixability -- Layers, transparency, compositing -- After Effects interface: from "time-based" to "composition-based" -- 3D space as a media design platform -- Import/export: design workflow -- Variable form -- Amplification -- Conclusion -- Software, hardware, and social media -- Media after software -- Software epistemology -- Index