ISBN:
9780745676104
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Onlie-Ressource (xi, 170 Seiten)
Ausgabe:
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DDC:
303.4833
Schlagwort(e):
Informationsgesellschaft
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Neue Medien
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Kommunikation
;
Schnittstelle
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Informationstechnik
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Ästhetik
Kurzfassung:
Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent and immediate connection. But, following the pessimistic path, media are the obstacles to direct communion, disintegrating self and other into misunder...
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