Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture

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The term “new media” is most often associated with the Internet and the phenomenal technological advances that have taken place in the past decades. In Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge and Culture, author Kim Veltman looks at these developments and identifies five types of consequences of the networked environment – technological, material, organizational, intellectual, and philosophical. Veltman reviews physical changes (e.g. development of size and speed in computing, wireless communication, agile ...
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Overview


The term “new media” is most often associated with the Internet and the phenomenal technological advances that have taken place in the past decades. In Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge and Culture, author Kim Veltman looks at these developments and identifies five types of consequences of the networked environment – technological, material, organizational, intellectual, and philosophical. Veltman reviews physical changes (e.g. development of size and speed in computing, wireless communication, agile manufacturing), and argues that the most profound potential changes lie in intellectual and philosophical domains. Unlike technological determinists, Veltman shows that there are at least three differing and sometimes competing goals and visions for new media around the world. Whereas America foresees an information highway, Europe envisions an information/knowledge society and Japan strives clearly for a knowledge society. China and India are playing an increasing role in such visions of the future. These visions are very long-term. For instance, the director of Google has claimed that his (American) vision will take at least three centuries to achieve. Veltman thus reveals a big picture of the digital revolution that is something fundamentally different from simply the introduction of yet another medium to our culture. Information Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming Universal Convergent Technologies (UCT). This calls for us to rethink McLuhan’s brilliant and provocative suggestion that every new medium simply uses the prior mode as its message. It marks a paradigm shift in our relation to all media, to all our senses, all our expressions. The new media are transforming our definitions of culture and knowledge, our ways of knowing, and transcending barriers in ways that will have lasting implications for centuries to come.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781552381540
  • Publisher: University of Calgary Press
  • Publication date: 4/26/2006
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 712
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.50 (d)

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Dr. Kim H. Veltman was scientific director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute and coordinator of a new European Network of Centers of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage. He has been invited to join a proposed new European University of Culture (Paris).
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Table of Contents

I Technological consequences : invisibility
1 Computers 3
2 Mobility 23
3 Miniaturization 33
II Material consequences : virtuality
4 Production 51
5 Services 81
6 Institutions 113
III Organizational consequences : systemicity
7 Organizations 141
8 (Knowledge) management 157
9 Learning 179
IV Intellectual consequences : contextuality
10 Personal knowledge 199
11 Collaboration 209
12 Enduring knowledge 229
V Philosophical consequences : spirituality
13 Challenges 265
14 Synthesis 297
15 Conclusions 321
Epilogue 1 : the advent of new players and changes since 2000 343
Epilogue 2 : MuLuhan in the electronic age 355
App. 1 Scientific visualization 369
App. 2 New fields relating to knowledge organization 378
App. 3 Expert and intelligent systems (1942-2002) 386
App. 4 Just imagine, by Jaap van Till 388
App. 5 J. M. Perreault's relations 390
App. 6 Syntax, semantics, and grammar 392
App. 7 International developments 399
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