New Media Anthology

As digital resources on the web expand, a robust New Media Anthology is increasingly feasible, and a wiki-based anthology will allow for widespread participation and flexible classroom use. This anthology will continue to employ the trivium as an organizational, storage device: grammatical material will consist of synthesizing histories and primary new media products from 1839 to the present; rhetorical material will consist of social/political action materials and how-to guides; dialectic material will consist of philosophical, theoretical, and historical materials that question and probe, rather than synthesize. Of course on a wiki, in an open anthology, these category definitions, even these categories, might change.

Grammatical material

Grammatical material can be broken down into two categories—historical synthesizing material and primary new media—continuing the grammatical tradition of gathering and collecting texts for both the development of wisdom and teaching of rhetoric and dialectics. Many entries will undoubtedly combine categories.

Historical synthesizing.

• Adams. D. (2006). "Hyperland." Retrieved January 27, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsPKjbMvxY
• "As We May Think," by Vannevar Bush. This essay prompted Lawrence Lessig to declare "hypertext had been born...with Vannevar Bush" (42). http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
• "The Electronic Labyrinth." A historical view of the development of hypertext. http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/
• "From Still Pictures to Moving Images. A ten-screen history that visually and verbally traces the history of still pictures from Niepce and Daguerre to the Lumiere brothers." http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/bill.douglas/Schools/movingpics/movingpics1.htm
• "Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies." A Library of Congress Online Exhibition. The Library of Congress has done the good grammatical work of collecing and synthesizing primary materials from the early history of new media. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
• The Visual Rhetoric Portal. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~prope002/visualRhet.htm
• Todd Oldham, interior designer, photographer, graphic designer, has written a book and produced companion videos called Hand Made Modern. His work is inspired by the "do-it-yourself" tradition in art and design, and many of his short video essays offer good history lessons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EDKCVyEZAI
• Lev Manovich's website. http://www.manovich.net/
• Gunther Kress presentation on reading images. http://www.knowledgepresentation.org/BuildingTheFuture/Kress2/Kress2.html

Primary New Media

• A Lumiere brothers' film: "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat." Video sample from 1896; early film from the inventors of moving pictures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEH5UgVB92I
• "Filming Greed." A four minute metatextual silent storyreel about the film adaptation of Frank Norris' 19th-Century novel McTeague. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbRjg1jiOw
• Real?Virtual. A QTVR intensive representation of architectural time and space, produced by Columbia University's Department of Art History and Architecture. http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ha/index.html
• "Space." Beussery QTVR. http://www.beussery.com/pages/space/space.html
• "The Language of the Future." Hillman Curtis video about video as the language of the future. http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/nab.php

Anthologies within this Anthology

• The New Media Exemplar Library, compiled by the New Medial Literacy Project at MIT. Currently features a comic book artist, various bloggers, and DJs. http://www.projectnml.org/exemplars/
• My_Web.Anthology@thistime: A collection of materials used to support a course called "Electronic Communication." http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/anthology/index.html
• Information Graphics from International Networks Archive. http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eina/infographics/index.html

Rhetorical material

Political / social action uses of new media.

• Greg Ulmer's EmerAgency materials. Ulmer both theorizes and enacts the political, social, humanities-grounded work of new media in the age of electracy. http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/elf/
• "Evolution: From Human Being to Billboard in 60 seonds." New media used to critique new media and advertising specifically. http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/3421/
• The Wooster Collective." Collection of graffiti and ephemeral art. http://www.woostercollective.com/
• Warnick, Barbara. Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web. Studies in Political Communication 12. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. http://www.peterlangusa.com/index.cfm?vID=68802&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1
• Zefrank. "The Show." Collection of personal meditations on life and politics. http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/

How-tos, guides, workshops: making new media.

• A List Apart Primer, Vol. 1. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ALAprimer
• A List Apart Primer, Vol. 2. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alaprimer2
• A Podcasting workshop (April 2006). http://composition.wikispaces.com/podcasting
• An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet of Stock Photos from EveryStockPhoto.com. http://www.everystockphoto.com/
• Holy CSS, Zeldman! Links to Basics and More about CSS. http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html
• How to make an information graphic. http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=73&lang=2
• Photography tutorial: Composition. http://photoinf.com/General/Geoff_Lawrence/Composition.html
• Open Source Web Design Templates: http://www.oswd.org/
• CSS Tinderbox. http://csstinderbox.raykonline.com/
• Open Design Community. http://www.opendesigns.org/
• Color Jack Sphere. http://www.colorjack.com/sphere/
• Photoshop Text Effects. http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/07/22/the-best-80-photoshop-text-effects-on-the-web/

Dialectical material

• Castells, M. (1999). The Social Implications of Information & Communication Technologies. UNESCO's World Social Science Report. Retrieved November 8. 2005 from http://www.chet.org.za/oldsite/castells/socialicts.html
• Winner, L. (2006). Technolopolis. Retrieved whenever you retrieve it. http://technopolis.blogspot.com/
• CTheory.net. (n.d.) E-Journal. http://www.ctheory.net/home.aspx
• Grosswiler, Paul. (1996). "The Dialectical Methods of Marshall McLuhan, Marx, and Critical Theory." Canadian Journal of Communication. 21.1. Retrieved Nov. 2, 2006. http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=348&layout=html
• De.li.cious tags for grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic.

(Not precisely the grammar or dialectic we have in mind.)