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The Digital Plenitude - The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media (Hardcover)
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The Digital Plenitude - The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made
possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of
digital media. Media culture today encompasses a universe of
forms-websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and
radio programs, magazines, and more-and a multitude of practices
that include making, remixing, sharing, and critiquing. This
multiplicity is so vast that it cannot be comprehended as a whole.
In this book, Jay David Bolter traces the roots of our media
multiverse to two developments in the second half of the twentieth
century: the decline of elite art and the rise of digital media.
Bolter explains that we no longer have a collective belief in
"Culture with a capital C." The hierarchies that ranked, for
example, classical music as more important than pop, literary
novels as more worthy than comic books, and television and movies
as unserious have broken down. The art formerly known as high takes
its place in the media plenitude. The elite culture of the
twentieth century has left its mark on our current media landscape
in the form of what Bolter calls "popular modernism." Meanwhile,
new forms of digital media have emerged and magnified these
changes, offering new platforms for communication and expression.
Bolter outlines a series of dichotomies that characterize our
current media culture: catharsis and flow, the continuous rhythm of
digital experience; remix (fueled by the internet's vast resources
for sampling and mixing) and originality; history (not replayable)
and simulation (endlessly replayable); and social media and
coherent politics.
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