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Article: While frenzied interest in new media. (Voiceover).(Lev Manovich Dialogue)(Brief Article)
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While frenzied interest in new media has led to a number of attempts to document and narrate the swift rise of networked technologies and various adjusted paradigms, the new media craze and its subsequent crash have for the most part constituted a singularly depressing time for social and cultural critiques of the technology field. For this segment of the Voiceover, I would like to stay with Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media, as the book outlines some important conceptual shifts, and I hope to offer two suggestive responses for Gloria Sutton and Matthew Fuller to consider.
1. One of the most fascinating histories in The Language of New Media is Manovich's ...