Residual Media
By (Author) Charles R. Acland
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st April 2007
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
302.23
Paperback
432
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 25mm
In a society that breathlessly awaits "the new" in every medium, what happens to last year's new Ample critical energy has gone into the study of new media, genres, and communities. But what becomes of discarded media In what manner do the products of technological change reappear as environmental problems, as "the new" in another part of the world, as collectibles, as memories, and as art