Net Works

<p><em>Net Works</em> offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. <em>Net Works</em> strives to fill that gap.</p><p>Using websites as case studies each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning.</p><p>Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web<em> Net Works</em> is ideal for courses in new media design art communication critical studies media and technology or popular digital/internet culture.</p>