The Language of New Media

In this influential book Manovich proposes five principles of new media: 1) Numerical representation: new media objects exist as data. 2) Modularity: the different elements of new media exist independently. 3) Automation: new media objects can be created and modified automatically. 4) Variability: new media objects exist in multiple versions. 5) Transcoding: The logic of the computer influences how we understand and represent ourselves. Another often cited point in the book is his discussion of database aesthetics and database narratives. Manovich's work is based in cinema studies and his book was especially rapidly taken up in media studies departments.

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Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Rehearsal of Memory	Graham Harwood	1995
The Legible City	Jeffrey Shaw, Dirk Groeneveld	1989

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
'Le Livre' e o 'Sintext:' A Simulação do Sonho de Mallarmé Através da Poética Digital de Pedro Barbosa	Luís Cláudio Fajardo		2009
Animated Concrete Poetry Between Stillness and Motion - a Close-Up on Ottar Ormstad's Oeuvre of Works	Patricia Tomaszek		2013
Arte Digital: Pixel, Algoritmo, Código, Programação e Dados	Álvaro Seiça	idearte	2011
Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media	Maria Engberg		2007
Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media	Jeremy Douglass		2007
Creativity Support for Computational Literature	Daniel C. Howe		2009
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	Continuum	2012
Derivative Writing: E-literature in the World of New Social and Economic Paradigms	Janez Strehovec		2012
Design som medievitenskapelig metode	Anders Fagerjord	Norsk medietidsskrift	2012
Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel	Scott Rettberg		2003
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations	Roberto Simanowski	University of Minnesota Press	2011
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections	Luciana Gattass		2011
Digital Narrative and Temporality	Serge Bouchardon, Erika Fülöp		2021
Digital Prohibition Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art	Carolyn Guertin	Continuum	2012
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	Polity	2018
Expressive Processing: On Process-Intensive Literature and Digital Media	Noah Wardrip-Fruin		2006
Face It, Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot: Reading and Playing Cadre’s Varicella	Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop		2003
From Synesthesias to Multimedia: How to Talk about New Media Narrative	Daniel Punday		2011
Galatea’s Riposte: The Reception and Receptacle of Interactive Fiction	Lisa Swanstrom	Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2013
Introduction [The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature]	Joseph Tabbi	Bloomsbury Academic	2018

Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource	Teaching Resource Type	Author	Year
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2011)	Syllabus	Jill Walker Rettberg, Patricia Tomaszek, Mark C. Marino, Rita Raley	2011
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2012)	Syllabus	Davin Heckman, Patricia Tomaszek	2012
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2013)	Syllabus	Leonardo L. Flores, Elisabeth Nesheim	2013
Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2014)	Syllabus	Judd Morrissey, Álvaro Seiça	2014
Digital Literature (Engl 391, Fall 2008)	Syllabus, Lesson plan	Jessica Pressman	2008
Digital Literature (Engl 391, Fall 2010)	Syllabus, Lesson plan	Jessica Pressman	2010

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 1: Genres of Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature, Chapter 2: Combinatory Poetics
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

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