INTRO TO MULTIMEDIA. MAT 103

Alejandra Jarabo

Multimedia Arts & Technologies Division. Santa Barbara City College
Reader information


Books and chapters covered in the Reader:

My photocopies have been underlined and commented, but you can do without it. Some people find underlinning annoying.
Others find them helpful.

 
1

Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man.
By Marshall McLuhan.
MIT Press edition, 1994
ISBN: 1-58423-073-8

1st Ed. McGraw Hill, NY, 1964;
reissued MIT Press, 1994, with introduction by Lewis H. Lapham;
reissued by Gingko Press, 2003

Link to short article infacebook, HERE

1.a Introduction to the MIT Press Edition, by Lewis H. Lapham.

 

Page ix to xxiii.
 

1.b Chapter 1. The Medium is the Message.

 

Pages 7 to 21
 

1.c Chapter 2. Hot and Cold Media.

 

Pages 22 to 32
   
2

Digital McLuhan, a guide to the Information Millennium.
By Paul Levison.
Routledge,1999.
ISBN:0-415-19251-X

Link to online version, HERE

Chapter 4. The Song of the alphabet in Cyberspace. Pages 44 to 54.
   
3

The Soft Edge, a natural History and future of the information revolution.
By Paul Levinson.
Routledge,1997.
ISBN:0-415-15785-4

Review of this book, HERE

Chapter 2. The First digital medium. Pages 11 to 19.
     
4

Beautiful Evidence.
By Edward R. Tufte.
Graphics Press LLC, 2006.

Author's personal website, HERE

Introduction: page 8 (only text/no images)

 

 
 

Pages 22 and 23 (ship graphic)

 

 
     
5
The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media.
By Walter Benjamin.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pub. Date: May 2008
ISBN-13: 9780674024458

Full article.

Link at google books, HERE

 
     
6
Art and Visual Perception, a psychology of the creative eye.
By Rudolf Arnheim.
University of California Press.
1974, expanded and reviewed edition.
Print ISBN 0-520-24383-8

From chapter: "Form".

 

Page 108 to 129.
  From chapter: "Shape". Page 63 to page 75.
     
7
Hamlet on the Holodeck, The future of Narrative in Cyberspace.
By Janet H. Murray, 1997.
The MIT press.
Cambridge, MA.
ISBN0-684-82723-9

Chapter 1. “Lord Burleigh’s kiss”.

Book review, HERE

Page 13-26.