Web aesthetics : how digital media affect culture and society

Title
  1. Web aesthetics : how digital media affect culture and society / Vito Campanelli ; [translation from Italian, Francesco Bardo].
Published by
  1. Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; Amsterdam : Institute of Network Cultures, ©2010.
Author
  1. Campanelli, Vito.

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Additional authors
  1. Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Description
  1. 274 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. We live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural forms, the implications of aesthetical philosophy have been sorely neglected. Vito Campanelli explores network forms through the prism of aethetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitations of the current debate about digital culture. The web is the medium that stands between the new media and society and, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour, framing aesthetic forms and moulding contemporary culture and society. Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, such as social networks, peer-to-peer networks and 'remix culture', and reduces them to their historical premises, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.
Series statement
  1. Studies in network cultures
Uniform title
  1. Studies in network cultures
Alternative title
  1. How digital media affect culture and society
Subject
  1. Digital media > Influence
  2. Internet > Social aspects
  3. World Wide Web > Social aspects
  4. Mass media > Aesthetics
  5. Mass media and culture
  6. Art and the Internet
  7. 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication
  8. 54.02 pilosophy and theory of computer science
  9. Art and the Internet
  10. Internet > Social aspects
  11. Mass media > Aesthetics
  12. Mass media and culture
  13. World Wide Web > Social aspects
  14. Ästhetik
  15. Internet
  16. Medientheorie
  17. Neue Medien
  18. Internet
  19. Online-systemen
  20. Esthetica
  21. Socioculturele factoren
  22. Elektronische Medien > Ästhetik
  23. Ästhetik > Elektronische Medien
  24. Elektronische Medien > Gesellschaft
  25. Medientheorie
  26. Digitale Medien
  27. Design
  28. Kulturleben
  29. Gesellschaft
  30. Digitala medier > estetiska aspekter
  31. Konst och teknik
Contents
  1. Chapter I -- Dialogue Inside and Outside the Web -- Closed Monads -- Spam and Viruses: The Evil to Be Eradicated -- New Media Culture -- Chapter II -- Aesthetic Diffusion -- A Short History of the Concept of Aesthetic Experience -- Diffuse Aesthetics -- Theory of Memes -- Aby Warburg: The Concept of Engram -- Meme Gallery -- Chapter III -- Aesthetic Experience on the Web -- To Flow or Not to Flow -- Fictions -- Optical and Haptic -- Chapter IV -- Aesthetic Experience and Digital Networks -- Travellers in the Aesthetic Matrix -- The DivX and MP3 Experience -- The Centrality of the Eye -- Digital Cameras and the Will of Technology -- What to Fill Digital Memories With? -- Chapter V -- Remix as Compositional Practice -- Innovation and Repetition -- Remix It Yourself -- Remix Ethics -- Remix Ethics -- Machinic subjectivity.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).