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The digital plenitude : the decline of elite culture and the rise of digital media / Jay David Bolter

Author
Bolter, J. David, 1951-
Additional Titles
Decline of elite culture and the rise of new media
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
The great divide -- Popular modernism -- Dichotomies -- Catharsis -- Flow -- Remix and originality -- Procedurality, history, and simulation -- Social media and the politics of flow.
Summary
"There are two developments in the second half of the twentieth century have helped to define our media culture in the twenty-first. One is the rise of digital media: websites, videogames, social media, and mobile applications, as well as all the remediations of film, television, radio, and print that now appear in digital form. The other development is the end of our collective belief in what we might call Culture with a capital C. Since the middle of the twentieth century, traditional hierarchies of the visual arts, literature, and music as forms of creativity have broken down. This has been accompanied by a decline in the status of the humanities--literary studies in particular, but also history and philosophy. Jay Bolter's THE PLENITUDE is the story of how the dissolution of previously sacrosanct media institutions succumbed to the pervasive power of new forms of media. It is not an argument favoring an elite form of culture over popular culture, but rather a examination of how these changes have affected the divided societies we live in today"--
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ISBN
9780262039734 hardcover alkaline paper
0262039737 hardcover alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2018
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Paterno Libraries Endowment
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