Control and Freedom
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Wendy Hui Boeken
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun overbrugt op meesterlijke wijze de werelden van systeemengineering en literatuurwetenschap om de complexiteit van digitale media te ontleden. Haar werk onderzoekt kritisch hoe technologie verweven is met menselijke ervaring, waarbij thema's als controle, vrijheid en de evoluerende aard van perceptie in onze steeds meer verbonden wereld worden verkend. De onderscheidende aanpak van Chun biedt diepgaande inzichten in de maatschappelijke en culturele impact van digitale omgevingen, en onthult de ingewikkelde manieren waarop deze onze gewoonten en ons begrip vormgeven.
Updating to Remain the Same
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What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual-when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.
"Chun investigates the centrality of race, gender, class, and sexuality to "Big Data" and network analytics"-- Provided by publisher
New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things--mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates "programmed visions", which seek to shape and predict--even embody--a future based on past data. These programmed visions have also made computers, based on metaphor, metaphors for metaphor itself, for a general logic of substitutability. Chun argues that the clarity offered by software as metaphor should make us pause, because software also engenders a profound sense of ignorance: who knows what lurks behind our smiling interfaces, behind the objects we click and manipulate? The combination of what can be seen and not seen, known (knowable) and not known--its separation of interface from algorithm and software from hardware--makes it a powerful metaphor for everything we believe is invisible yet generates visible, logical effects, from genetics to the invisible hand of the market, from ideology to culture. (back cover)