Quick reviews - recommended books - (sent to various email lists - might
be of interest here?) -
Hello Avatar, Rise of the Networked Generation, B. Coleman, MIT, 2011
- Highly recommend this book which isn't the usual first-person
narrative, but carefully builds a theoretical structure for analyzing
the phenomenology of avatars, which we might be taking increasingly
for granted; the days of Sherry Turkle's Life on the Screen have been
replaced by life. I like the breadth and time-line of the book. I
picked up the copy at Eyebeam; it's one of the more useful recent
volumes of theory/sociology/philosophy of new media to emerge.
Noise Channels, Glitch and Error in Digital Culture, Peter Krapp,
Minnesota, 2011
