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

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Platform-based Rules of (Un)Notice	Inge van de Ven
Matter of Time: Toward a Materialist Semiotics of Web Animation	John David Zuern	Dichtung Digital	2003
Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel	Scott Rettberg		2003
Rhetorical Convergence: Earlier Media Influence on Web Media Form	Anders Fagerjord		2003
Face It, Tiger, You Just Hit the Jackpot: Reading and Playing Cadre’s Varicella	Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop		2003
The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event	N. Katherine Hayles	The MIT Press	2006
Expressive Processing: On Process-Intensive Literature and Digital Media	Noah Wardrip-Fruin		2006
New Textualities	Manuel Portela	EJES: European Journal of English Studies	2007
Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media	Jeremy Douglass		2007
Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media	Maria Engberg		2007
The Database, the Interface, and the Hypertext: A Reading of Strickland's V	Jaishree K. Odin	Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2007
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad		2008
'Le Livre' e o 'Sintext:' A Simulação do Sonho de Mallarmé Através da Poética Digital de Pedro Barbosa	Luís Cláudio Fajardo		2009
Creativity Support for Computational Literature	Daniel C. Howe		2009
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen		2009
Techno-historical Limits of the Interface: The Performance of Interactive Narrative Experiences	Andrew Hutchison		2009
Písanie v interaktívnych médiách. Digitálna fikcia /Writing in the Interactive Media. Digital Fiction	Zuzana Husárová		2009
The Machine in the Text, and the Text in the Machine	Manuel Portela	DHQ Digital Humanities Quarterly	2010
Arte Digital: Pixel, Algoritmo, Código, Programação e Dados	Álvaro Seiça	idearte	2011
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections	Luciana Gattass		2011

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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