Writing on New Media
From Gerald R. Lucas
The following essays, notes, and musings come out of teaching new media. I break them up according to the topics listed on “New Media Suggested Reading and Viewing.”
Defining New Media
- “New Media”
- “Nostalgic Angels: New Media Today” (2003–2004)
Foundations
- “Cyberstarts” discusses Turing and Wiener
- “Bush, Licklider, and Nelson”
- “McLuhan’s Medium & Message”
- “The Media and the Material”
Being Digital: Revolution and Democracy
- “Boal, Enzensberger, and Baudrillard”
- “Educational Conditioning” looks at education as medium according to Ted Nelson.
- “New Media’s Golden Mean”
- Notes on “The Californian Ideology”
- “Negroponte and Being Digital” • “Being Digital Redux”
Digital Humanities
Cyberdrama, Narrativism, and Ludology
- “Configuration & Interpretation”: a review of several game theorists.
- “Liminal”: some notes on Murray.
