Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
Podcast, “New Media in West Africa”
Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa.
Podcast: Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
Francisco Ricardo examines the tension between acceptance of new media and materials and the rejection of new forms and structures they made possible.
Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
Using physical and virtual examples, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible.
Three CMS blogs make list of “100 Best Blogs for New Media Students”
Included were Henry Jenkins’ Confessions of an Aca-Fan, Project New Media Literacies, and Nick Montfort’s Grand Text Auto.
From the CMS archive: “New Media Has New Impact on Campaign”
Bloggers’ unprecedented participation and the 2004 campaign’s huge virtual audience represents a quiet yet astounding change at the intersection of information, politics, culture and society.
