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Updating to remain the same: Habitual new media

This is a review of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Updating to remain the same: Habitual new media. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2016; ISBN: 9780262034494. This paper was accepted for publication in the…
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Vinyl won’t save us: reframing disconnection as engagement

Disconnection has recently come to the forefront of public discussions as an antidote to an increasing saturation with digital technologies. Yet, experiences with disconnection are often reduced to a…
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The web will kill them all: new media, digital utopia, and political struggle in the Italian 5-Star Movement

This article examines the role of discourses about new media technology and the web in the rise of the 5-Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, or M5S) in Italy. Founded by comedian and activist Beppe…
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There Are No Old Media

Despite its ubiquity in scholarly and popular publications, relatively few attempts have been made to interrogate the meanings and implications of the notion of “old media.” This article discusses…
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E-readers and the death of the book: Or, new media and the myth of the disappearing medium

This article analyzes alternative narratives that surround the possibility of the disappearance of print books, dominated by fetishism, fears about the end of humanism and ideas of techno-fundamentalist progress, and argues that in order to comprehend such narratives, they need to inscribe in the broader history of media.
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Unveiling the Biographies of Media: On the Role of Narratives, Anecdotes, and Storytelling in the Construction of New Media's Histories

The article proposes the notion of 'biographies of media' as a theoretical framework addressing how media change is domesticated through the construction of popular and personal narratives. Relying…
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The rise of corporational determinism: digital media corporations and narratives of media change

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a new theoretical concept, corporational determinism, to describe narratives by which digital media corporations are presented as the main or only agency informing…
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Imagining the thinking machine: Technological myths and the rise of artificial intelligence

This article discusses the role of technological myths in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from 1950s to the early 1970s. It shows how the rise of AI was accompanied by…
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Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces

Three key issues that have to do with long-standing discussions about the social and political impact of the internet are focused on: the role of web platforms in shaping information access, the relationship between production and consumption online, and therole of affect in informing engagement with web resources.
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If software is narrative: Joseph Weizenbaum, artificial intelligence and the biographies of ELIZA

A theoretical framework based on the concept of ‘biographies of media’ is proposed to illuminate the dynamics and implications of software’s discursive life.
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