Web aesthetics : how digital media affect culture and society /
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Author / Creator: | Campanelli, Vito. |
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Imprint: | Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; Amsterdam : Institute of Network Cultures, c2010. |
Description: | 274 p. ; 21 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in network cultures Studies in network cultures. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8304432 |
Varying Form of Title: | How digital media affect culture and society |
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Other authors / contributors: | Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
ISBN: | 9789056627706 (pbk.) 9056627708 (pbk.) |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272). Translated into English from the original Italian. |
Summary: | We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural forms, the implications of aesthetical philosophy have been sorely neglected. Vito Campanelli explores network forms through the prism of aethetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitations of the current debate about digital culture. The web is the medium that stands between the new media and society and, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour, framing aesthetic forms and moulding contemporary culture and society. Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, such as social networks, peer-to-peer networks and 'remix culture', and reduces them to their historical premises, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media. |
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