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Why study the history of digital media and how? -- The computer -- Internet -- The mobile phone -- The digitization of analog media

For decades the residents of Taos, New Mexico have been afflicted by a low frequency humming—sometimes louder, sometimes almost inaudible—but never completely absent. On almost every college campus in North America, the buzz about using technology in teaching can be almost as annoying—and with each passing year, it gets louder. Although recent events in the American stock market have taken a good deal of the shine off of the idea that the Internet will fundamentally transform the economy, in higher education there seems to be no corresponding waning of enthusiasm for the infusion of new media into the educational experiences of students.

2. Armed Guerrilla Media Ecologies from Latin America to Europe -- Introduction: Contra 'Mass Mediated Terrorism' -- Revolution in the Revolution: The Urban Guerrilla Concept from Latin America to Europe and North America -- Brigate Rosse and Armed Struggle in Italy -- The 'Baader Meinhof Complex' and the June 2nd Movement -- Weather Variations: Weatherman, the Weather Underground, and the Symbionese Liberation Army -- 3. Autonomy Movements, the Nexus of 1977, and Free Radio -- Introduction: Radical Politics, Bifurcations, and the Event -- Italian Workerism and Autonomia -- 1977 as Nexus: The Movement of 1977, Creative Autonomia, and Punk -- Rebellious Radio from Marconi to Free Radios -- Media beyond 'Socialist Strategy': Enzensberger, Baudrillard, and the Genealogy of Radio Alice -- The Media Ecology of Radio Alice -- 4. Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinemas and the Anarchive Film -- Introduction: Destroying the (Cinema) Apparatus, Transforming the (Audiovisual) Machine -- Militant Anti-Cinemas in the 1970s -- Minor Anti-Cinemas: Anti Psychiatric, Heretical, Feminist, and Postcolonial -- The Counter-Public Sphere, Anarchival Film, and Documentary Symptomatologies -- 5. Ecologies of Radical and Guerrilla Television -- Introduction: Cinema/Television/Video or Cain vs. Abel Revisited -- Sonimage, Fassbinder, and Radical Auteur Television -- Ecologies of Guerrilla Television: Ant Farm, Raindance Corporation, TVTV, and Radical Software -- Conclusion: Terms of Cybernetic Warfare -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Key Film, Television, and Video Cited -- Index.

*Visions of Electric Media* is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional technology? What did Victorians expect it to become? How did the 'vision' of television change once viewers could actually see pictures on a screen? We will journey through the history of 'television': from the first indications of live communications in technology and culture in the late nineteenth century, to the development of electronic televisual systems in the early twentieth century. Along the way, we will investigate the philosophy, folklore, engineering practices, and satires that went into making television a useful medium.

Der Beitrag versucht die Entstehung der "neuen Medien" zu erklären. Medien sind nicht nur Resultat technischer Neuerungen sondern verdanken ihre Entstehung einem Zweistufenprozess, der sich erstens aus diesen Neuerungen und zweitens aus ihrer gesellschaftlichen Institutionalisierung zusammensetzt. Dabei verbessern die technischen Neuerungen und Erfindungen zunächst nur die "alten" Medien: so verbesserte beispielsweise Gutenberg die Schrift, der Film verbesserte ältere optische Medien und die drahtlose Telegraphie verbesserte die Telegraphie per Draht. Auf der nächsten Innovationsstufe werden die neuen Medien institutionalisiert: so entstehen neue Medien wie Massenpresse, Spielfilm und Rundfunk. Dieser Prozess der "gesellschaftlichen Institutionalisierung" verändert die neu erfundenen Medien grundsätzlich. Die Gesellschaft institutionalisiert Neuerungen durch die Entdeckung neuer Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten; sie passt die neuen Medien den gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen an und gibt ihnen ein Format. Der theoretische Ansatz des Beitrags kombiniert die Evolutionstheorie mit der von Joseph Schumpeter vorgeschlagenen Unterscheidung zwischen "Invention" und "Innovation". Mediengeschichte liest sich dabei als die Geschichte von Kokurrenzkämpfen zwischen Presse, Telegraphie, Film, Hörfunk, Fernsehen und Multimedia. Die Entstehung neuer Medien wird so in den Kontext sozialer, politischer, kultureller, ökonomischer und technischer gesellschaftlicher Diskurse gestellt. (UNübers.)

From the creation of newspapers with national reach in the late nineteenth century to the lightning-fast dispatches and debates of today's Internet, the media have played an enormous role in modern American politics. Scholars of political history universally concede the importance of this relationship yet have devoted scant attention to its development during the past century. Even as mass media have largely replaced party organizations as the main vehicles through which politicians communicate with and mobilize citizens, little historical scholarship traces the institutional changes, political organizations, and media structures that underlay this momentous shift.With Media Nation, editors Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer seek to bring the media back to the center of scholarship on the history of the United States since the Progressive Era. The book's revealing case studies examine key moments and questions within the evolution of the media from the early days of print news through the era of television and the Internet, including battles over press freedom in the early twentieth century, the social and cultural history of news reporters at the height of the Cold War, and the U.S. government's abandonment of the Fairness Doctrine and the consequent impact on news production, among others.Although they cover a diverse array of subjects, the book's contributors cohere around several critical ideas, including how elites interact with media, how key policy changes shaped media, and how media institutions play an important role in shaping society's power structure. Highlighting some of the most exciting voices in media and political history, Media Nation is a field-shaping volume that offers fresh perspectives on the role of mass media in the evolution of modern American politics.Contributors: Kathryn Cramer Brownell, David Greenberg, Julia Guarneri, Nicole Hemmer, Richard R. John, Sam Lebovic, Kevin Lerner, Kathryn J. McGarr, Matthew Pressman, Emilie Raymond, Michael Schudson, Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer.

Iconic Events explores the social forces that have shaped the meanings around and enduring significance of events that have captured the public's imagination, including: Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, and September 11th. The book focuses on three interpretive phases including journalistic representations, political appropriations, and popular adaptations and pays particular attention to the development of dominant and resistive event narratives

Participatory media in historical perspective: an introduction / Anders Ekström ... [et al.] -- From enlightened participation to liberal professionalism : on the historiography of the press as a resource for legitimacy / Patrik Lundell -- Knowing audiences, knowing media : performing publics at the early twentieth-century fun fair / Anders Ekström -- Civic media : city exhibitions and the visual culture of community, c. 1900 / Frans Lundgren -- Creating audiences, making participants : the cylinder phonograph in ethnographic fieldwork / Mathias Boström -- The interactivity of the model home / Mark B. Sandberg -- Touring the Congo : mobility and materiality in missionary media / Lotten Gustafsson Reinius -- Say milk, say cheese! inscribing public participation in the photographic archives of the national milk propaganda / Ylva Habel -- Daniel Ellsberg and the lost idea of the photocopy / Lisa Gitelman -- Fetal photography in the age of cool media / Solveig Jülich -- Expedition Robinson, reality TV, and the history of the social experiment / Per Wisselgren -- History on the web : museums, digital media, and participation / Bodil Axelsson