Jay David Bolter: The Digital Plentitude - The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of Digital Media
Jay David Bolter, en pioner innen forskning på nye medier, er i Bergen for å fortelle om sin nåværende forskning på de siste tiårenes nedbryting av kulturelle hierarkier, og om hvordan dette henger sammen med det store mangfoldet vi ser i digitale medier.
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Two developments in the second half of the twentieth century have defined our media culture in the twenty-first. One is the rise of digital media: websites, video games, social media, and mobile applications, as well as all the remediations of film, television, radio, and print that now appear in digital form. The other is the end of our collective belief in Culture with a capital C. Since the middle of the twentieth century, traditional cultural hierarchies in the visual arts, literature, and music have broken down. The rise of digital media did not cause the decline of elite culture, but digital media do support and foster the diversity of popular culture today.
Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age (1984); Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing (1991; second edition 2001); Remediation (1999), with Richard Grusin; and Windows and Mirrors (2003), with Diane Gromala. In addition to writing about new media, Bolter collaborates in the construction of new digital media forms. With Michael Joyce, he created Storyspace, a hypertext authoring system. As a member of the Augmented Environments Lab, he develops AR applications to stage dramatic and narrative experiences for cultural heritage and informal education.
For more information about Prof. Bolter please take a look at Georgia Institute of Technology's website https://www.iac.gatech.edu/people/faculty/bolter
