Scott Rettberg's ABR issue on New Media Studies is out (March/April 2003), and looks great. It includes my review of Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort's New Media Reader (MIT Press).
Here's a little of what I said in my review:
With the New Media Reader and its accompanying CD-ROM Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort (and the MIT Press) have created a package that will serve the field for a long time to come. Certainly some readers will find themselves imagining ways of doing the book differently, but I doubt many will find much license for imagining ways of doing it better. . . . Used as directed, the New Media Reader will launch new art, new software, new theory, and new thought.
Looks like new media studies has come of age.
Elsewhere in that same issue, one of my favorite bits is Rob Wittig reflecting on Justin's Links.
Posted by mgk at March 2, 2003 09:59 PM