The Digital Dialectic or Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2005

The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media

Author: Peter Lunenfeld

The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.

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Touted as an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer continues to pervade almost every moment of our lives, this book delivers in grand, thought-provoking style. Edited by Lunenfeld (communication and new media design, Art Center Coll. of Design), the volume offers a cornucopia of essays by almost a dozen contributors (including Lunenfeld himself), who draw inspiration from the 1995 Conference on the Convergence of Technology, Media, and Theory. None of the material seems dated (four years can be eons when considering technology), and a clear favorite has to be Brenda Laurels wry, memoir-like discourse on technology and entertainment, Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation. Other offerings include William J. Mitchells Replacing Place and George P. Landows Hypertext as Collage Writing. This effort in toto is an entertaining, unqualified success. Recommended for all collections.Geoff Rotunno, Valley Voice Newspaper, Goleta, CA

Table of Contents:

	Series Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
	Introduction
	Screen Grabs: The Digital Dialectic and New Media Theory
I	The Real and the Ideal
1	Unfinished Business	6
2	The Cyberspace Dialectic	24
3	The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic	46
II	The Body and the Machine
4	The Condition of Virtuality	68
5	From Cybernation to Interaction: A Contribution to an Archaeology of Interactivity	96
6	Replacing Place	112
III	The Medium and the Message
7	The Medium Is the Memory	130
8	Hypertext as Collage-Writing	150
9	What Is Digital Cinema?	172
IV	The World and the Screen
10	"We Could Be Better Ancestors Than This": Ethics and First Principles for the Art of the Digital Age	198
11	Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation	214
	Notes	236
	Recommended Readings in New Media Theory	270
	Index	284

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Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 2005

Author: David Schneider

Based on the newest version of Microsoft's VB. NET, this revision of Schneider's best-selling guide is designed for readers with no prior computer programming experience. The author uses Visual Basic .NET 2005 to explore the fundamentals of programming, building a strong foundation that will give students a sustainable understanding of programming. Offers a broad range of examples, case studies, exercises, and programming projects to give readers significant hands-on experience. Includes a new section on Graphics. Provides fully updated example text and data, including tax codes, social security forms/data, baseball statistics, and more. Contains all new, robust, interesting programming projects. Updates screenshots throughout using Windows XP. Bundles Visual Basic .NET Express automatically with each copy of the text. A useful reference for both beginning and experienced programmers who want to learn more about the latest version of Microsoft's VB. NET.