Writing on New Media

On Education

On Literature

On New Media

On Science Fiction

On Writing

Journal

See also: New Media Suggested Reading and Viewing

The following essays, notes, and musings come out of teaching new media. I break them up according to the topics listed on “New Media Suggested Reading and Viewing.”

Defining New Media

• “New Media”
• “Nostalgic Angels: New Media Today” (2003–2004)

Foundations

• “Cyberstarts” discusses Turing and Wiener
• “Bush, Licklider, and Nelson”
• “McLuhan’s Medium & Message”
• “The Media and the Material”

Being Digital: Revolution and Democracy

• “Boal, Enzensberger, and Baudrillard”
• “Educational Conditioning” looks at education as medium according to Ted Nelson.
• “New Media’s Golden Mean”
• Notes on “The Californian Ideology”
• “Negroponte and Being Digital” • “Being Digital Redux” • Being Digital Questions for Consideration
• “Obsolete Education”

Digital Humanities

• “Defining Digital Humanities”

Cyberdrama, Narrativism, and Ludology

• “Configuration & Interpretation”: a review of several game theorists.
• “Liminal”: some notes on Murray.

Cyborg(ology), Transhumanism, Posthumanism

• “Haraway Revisited”
• “Kurzweil’s Consciousness”
• “Posthuman Figuration”

Technology and the Creative Artist

• “Hey! What about Truth and Beauty?”
• “Janet Murray’s Holodeck”