Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Toward an aesthetics of transition / David Thorburn, Henry Jenkins -- Web of paradox / David Thorburn -- Historicizing media in transition / William Uricchio -- Re-newing old technologies : astonishment, second nature, and the uncanny in technology from the previous turn-of-the-century / Tom Gunning -- How users define new media : a history of the amusement phonograph / Lisa Gitelman -- Books are dead, long live books / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- Help or hindrance? The history of the book and electronic media / Paul Erickson -- Historical perspectives on the book and information technology / Gregory Crane -- Potholes on the information superhighway : Congress as a publisher in nineteenth-century America / Oz Frankel -- Prophetic peasants and bourgeois pamphleteers : the camisards represented in print, 1685-1710 / Daniel Thorburn -- Redefining the home screen : technological convergence as trauma and business plan / William Boddy -- Homer to home page : designing digital books / William J. Mitchell -- Reflections on interactivity / Luis O. Arata -- Forms of future / Michael Joyce -- Stitch bitch : the patchwork girl / Shelley Jackson -- "Let's be going" : a parent reads GeekCereal / Peter Donaldson -- Private uses of cyberspace : women, desire, and fan culture / Sharon Cumberland -- Quentin Tarantino's Star wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture / Henry Jenkins -- Immersion in the virtual ornament : contemporary "movie ride" films / Constance Balides -- The virtual window / Anne Friedberg -- Architectures of the senses : neo-baroque entertainment spectacles / Angela Ndalianis -- Media technology and museum display : a century of accommodation and conflict / Alison Griffiths.