New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader - Paperback

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Editor), Anna Watkins Fisher (Editor), Thomas Keenan (Editor)

This much-expanded and updated second edition of New Media, Old Media brings together original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Touching on topics including media archaeology, archives, software studies, surveillance, big data, social media, organized networks, digital art, and the Internet of Things, this newly revised critical anthology is essential reading for anyone studying the cultural impact of new and digital media.

Author Biography

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT Press, 2011), and Habitual New Media (MIT Press, 2016).

Anna Watkins Fisher is Assistant Professor of American Culture and the Residential College at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Thomas W. Keenan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human Rights Program at Bard College.