{"product_id":"mechanisms-new-media-and-the-forensic-imagination-paperback","title":"Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew G. Kirschenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new \"textual studies\" and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem \"Agrippa,\" Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMechanisms\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. \u003ci\u003eMechanisms\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between \"forensic materiality\" and \"formal materiality,\" Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's \u003ci\u003eAfternoon: A Story\u003c\/i\u003e, and William Gibson's electronic poem \"Agrippa.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eMechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.91 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959240290611,"sku":"9780262517409","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8TZeKvmb3o9780262517409.webp?v=1768467284","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/mechanisms-new-media-and-the-forensic-imagination-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}