MDSB61H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter PDF: Lev Manovich, Louis Daguerre, Daguerreotype
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We may begin answering this question by listing the categories commonly discussed under this topic in the popular press: the internet, web sites, computer multimedia, computer games, cd-roms and dvd, virtual reality. Similarly, photographs that are put on a cd-rom and require a computer to be viewed are considered new media; the same photographs printed in a book are not. Indeed, the introduction of the printing press affected only one stage of cultural communication - the distribution of media. Similarly, the introduction of photography affected only one type of cultural communication - still images. In a parallel movement, we witness the rise of modern media that allow the storage of images, image sequences, sounds, and texts in different material forms - photographic plates, film stock, gramophone records, etc. In the 1890s modern media took another step forward as still photographs were put in motion.
