Table of Contents:
  • What is new media? How media became new ; Principles of new media ; What new media is not
  • The interface. The language of cultural interfaces ; The screen and the user
  • The operations. Menus, filters, plug-ins ; Compositing ; Teleaction
  • The illusions. Synthetic realism and its discontents ; The synthetic image and its subject ; Illusion, narrative, and interactivity
  • The forms. The database ; Navigable space
  • What is cinema? Digital cinema and the history of a moving image ; The new language of cinema.