Control and Freedom
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Wendy Hui Livres
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun fait le pont avec maestria entre les mondes de l'ingénierie des systèmes et des études littéraires pour disséquer les complexités des médias numériques. Son travail examine de manière critique comment la technologie s'entrelace avec l'expérience humaine, explorant des thèmes de contrôle, de liberté et la nature évolutive de la perception dans notre monde de plus en plus connecté. L'approche distinctive de Chun offre des aperçus profonds sur les impacts sociaux et culturels des environnements numériques, révélant les manières complexes dont ils façonnent nos habitudes et notre compréhension.
Updating to Remain the Same
- 246pages
- 9 heures de lecture
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)