Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations (p. vii)
• Acknowledgments (p. ix)
• Introduction: issues in the theory and practice of media convergence (p. xi)
• Part 1 Digitextual deconstructions
• 1. Digitextuality and click theory: theses on convergence media in the digital age (p. 3)
• 2. The radio as an apparatus of communication (p. 29)
• 3. Invisible media (p. 33)
• 4. Exit meat: digital bodies in a virtual world (p. 47)
• Part 2 Digitextual aesthetics
• 5. Space invaders: thoughts on technology and the production of culture (p. 63)
• 6. The poetics of augmented space (p. 75)
• 7. Too many notes: computers, complexity, and culture in voyager (p. 93)
• 8. The stories digital tools tell (p. 107)
• Part 3 Prefiguring digitextuality
• 9. Second-shift media aesthetics: programming, interactivity, and user flows (p. 127)
• 10. Narrative mapping (p. 145)
• 11. Real-time fairy tales: cinema prefiguring digital anxiety (p. 159)
• 12. Tulip theory (p. 179)
• Part 4 Digitextual practices
• 13. Net ratings: defining a new medium by the old, measuring internet audiences (p. 197)
• 14. Flashing digital animations: pixar's digital aesthetic (p. 209)
• 15. Log on: the oxygen media research project (p. 225)
• 16. From barbie to mortal kombat: further reflections (p. 243)
• 17. Endnotes for a theory of convergence (p. 255)
• Notes on contributors (p. 265)
• Index (p. 269)