Digital Media and Art: Always Already Complicit?

A review of three recent books in digital media studies, by Lisa Gitelman, Marie-Laure Ryan, and Johanna Drucker, which have no cross-citations, and exemplify what Bolter describes as the " a rich diversity of forms of production and critical approaches". Bolter writes that "Each of these books contributes to a debate about new media, although no two of them participate centrally in the same debate", and goes on to explain how he sees very different debates taking place in the different areas of digital media studies.