Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression (MIT Press)
暫譯: 幻影媒體:想像、計算與表達的方法 (MIT Press)
D. Fox Harrell
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2013-11-08
- 售價: $1,980
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,881
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 440
- 裝訂: Hardcover
- ISBN: 0262019337
- ISBN-13: 9780262019330
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商品描述
In Phantasmal Media, D. Fox Harrell considers the expressive power of computational media. He argues, forcefully and persuasively, that the great expressive potential of computational media comes from the ability to construct and reveal phantasms -- blends of cultural ideas and sensory imagination. These ubiquitous and often-unseen phantasms -- cognitive phenomena that include sense of self, metaphors, social categories, narrative, and poetic thinking -- influence almost all our everyday experiences. Harrell offers an approach for understanding and designing computational systems that have the power to evoke these phantasms, paying special attention to the exposure of oppressive phantasms and the creation of empowering ones. He argues for the importance of cultural content, diverse worldviews, and social values in computing. The expressive power of phantasms is not purely aesthetic, he contends; phantasmal media can express and construct the types of meaning central to the human condition.
Harrell discusses, among other topics, the phantasm as an orienting perspective for developers; expressive epistemologies, or data structures based on subjective human worldviews; morphic semiotics (building on the computer scientist Joseph Goguen's theory of algebraic semiotics); cultural phantasms that influence consensus and reveal other perspectives; computing systems based on cultural models; interaction and expression; and the ways that real-world information is mapped onto, and instantiated by, computational data structures.
The concept of phantasmal media, Harrell argues, offers new possibilities for using the computer to understand and improve the human condition through the human capacity to imagine.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
在《Phantasmal Media》中,D. Fox Harrell 考慮了計算媒體的表達力。他有力且具說服力地主張,計算媒體的巨大表達潛力來自於構建和揭示幻影的能力——文化觀念與感官想像的融合。這些無處不在且常常不被察覺的幻影——包括自我意識、隱喻、社會類別、敘事和詩意思維等認知現象——影響著我們幾乎所有的日常經驗。Harrell 提出了一種理解和設計計算系統的方法,這些系統具有喚起這些幻影的能力,特別關注於揭露壓迫性的幻影和創造賦權的幻影。他主張文化內容、多元世界觀和社會價值在計算中的重要性。他認為,幻影的表達力並不僅僅是美學的;幻影媒體可以表達和構建與人類條件密切相關的意義。
Harrell 討論了多個主題,包括幻影作為開發者的定向視角;表達性認識論,或基於主觀人類世界觀的數據結構;形態符號學(基於計算機科學家 Joseph Goguen 的代數符號學理論);影響共識並揭示其他視角的文化幻影;基於文化模型的計算系統;互動與表達;以及現實世界信息如何映射到計算數據結構中並由其實例化的方式。
Harrell 主張,幻影媒體的概念為利用計算機理解和改善人類條件提供了新的可能性,這是通過人類的想像能力來實現的。