Marc Bousquet // Manovich, There is Only SoftwareMedia Studies 208, Emory University

Digital Media and Culture

o What are the consequences of describing contemporary media by the single term “digital”? Are there alternatives?

o How does Manovich’s view contrast with Murray’s?

o Manovich points out that the “properties” of digital media depend on the software used to interact with it, so the notion of “affordances” is properly addressed to the program used to interact a digital artifact. This questions the whole project of defining the properties of “the digital.”