Principles of New Media
Based upon Lev Manovich's The Language of New Media (2001)
- Numerical representations: can be described mathematically, and
are programmable. E.g. photographs are composed of pixels, which are themselves
bits.
- Modular: collections of discrete components. E.g., a web page can
becomposed of text and separate image, sound, and video files.
- Creation, distribution, and access to new media can be automated.
E.g. applying a filer in Photoshop
- Variability: can exist in multiple versions. e.g. database driven
web page; periodic updates
- Transcoding: content and code; language of media and language of
computers