On a Silver Platter

CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology

By: Greg M. Smith (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 December 1998

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When the new medium of CD-ROMs emerged, industry figures and critics alike proclaimed their virtually unlimited potential. Adapting material from well-established media like television and film, CD-ROMs have quickly transformed genres such as science fiction and horror. At the same time, the realities of actual CD-ROMs often fall short of their utopian visions.
On a Silver Platter marks a "coming of age" for CD-ROMs as a commercially and aesthetically significant medium demanding critical attention. Greg Smith brings together media scholars such as Lisa Cartwright, Henry Jenkins, Janet Murray, and Scott Bukatman to analyze how CD-ROMs offer alternatives to familiar places--to museums, to cities, and especially to classrooms. Examining specific CD-ROM titles, including, Sim City, Civilization, and Phantasmagoria, the contributors argue that CD-ROMs are complex texts worthy of close consideration, both for how they have changed our understanding of space and genre, and for how they will impact the development of future media.
By examining particular CD-ROM texts and contexts, On a Silver Platter probes this new medium for insight and understanding into the current state of multimedia and into the future of technology.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Hardware Storage Media & Peripherals Graphical & Digital Media Applications Society & Culture Cultural Studies Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Science Science in General

Impact of Science & Technology on Society Engineering & Technology Technology in General

Introduction: A Few Words about Interactivity	p. 1
Before the Holodeck: Translating Star Trek into Digital Media	p. 35
"To Waste More Time, Please Click Here Again": Monty Python and the Quest for Film/CD-ROM Adaptation	p. 58
"Evil Will Walk Once More": Phantasmagoria - The Stalker Film as Interactive Movie?	p. 87
Busy Box Interface: The Pleasures of Winding	p. 113
Civilization and Its Discontents: Simulation, Subjectivity, and Space	p. 132
Museum (Dis)Play: Imagining the Museum on CD-ROM	p. 151
Virtual Kinship in a Postmodern World: Computer-Mediated Genealogy Communities	p. 184
Fantasies of Mastery or Masteries of Fantasy? Playing with CD-ROMs in the 5th Dimension	p. 211
Showing and Telling: Developing CD-ROMs for the Classroom and Research	p. 239
Doing Theory in Hypermedia Practice: A Case Study of the HyperHistory Video Project	p. 261
Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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On a Silver Platter

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