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Article: The New Media Reader.(Book Reviews)
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- May 1, 2004
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The New Media Reader
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds. 2003. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [ISBN 0-262-23227-8. 823 pages, including index and CD-ROM. $45.00 USD.]
When editors produce anthologies that demarcate a particular field of study or practice, such anthologies are usually a sign that the field has reached a level of maturity--or at least popularity--that warrants such a collection. The new media reader from MIT Press is one of several recent anthologies that have attempted to establish the parameters of the study of new media, including offering an answer to the most pressing question in the field: what is new media?
The new media ...