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Participatory Media. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 252
This book explores the rhetoric and reality of
digital visual culture. It agues that contemporary
media is characterised by unique real-time forms that
demand qualitatively distinct viewing relations. An
ambitious work of historical and theoretical
research, the phenomenon of media participation is
considered in relation to defining characteristics of
digital capitalism, and its prevailing modes of
performative individualisation. The book explores a
series of media genres (the news, reality
entertainment reality television, computer games, and
media art) to argue that what is at stake in the
contemporary media sphere is nothing less than our
relation to mortality and otherness. A genuine
incursion into vital and ongoing conditions of
cultural convergence, this book will appeal to media
and cultural theorists as well as art historians, and
students of visual culture.
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