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10 Outubro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

The implications of new media in visual representation. Reading assignments:

•Bolter, Jay, and Richard Grusin. 2000. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter “Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation” •Bolter, Jay. 2019. The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Introduction

Supplementary reading:  Benjamin, Walter. 2003. “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.” 1939 (third version). Trans. Howard Eiland. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4: 1938-1940. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP. 251-283.