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Manovich at Video Vortex in Brussels in October 2007 Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts , University of California, San Diego , U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee , Switzerland , where he teaches new media art and theory, software studies, and digital humanities. [ 1 ] His best known book is The Language of New Media , which has been widely reviewed and translated into Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Chinese. According to two reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far-reaching theorization of the subject" [ 2 ] and "it places new media within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan ". [ 3 ] [ edit ] Biography Manovich was born in Moscow where he studied painting, architecture, computer science, and semiotics. [ 4 ] After spending several years practicing fine arts, he moved to New York in 1981.
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Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American sociologist , philosopher, and pioneer of information technology (IT sociolosopher). He coined the terms " hypertext " and " hypermedia " in 1963 and published them in 1965. He also has been credited with first using the words transclusion , virtuality , intertwingularity , and teledildonics . [ edit ] Career Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface.
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Manuel Castells ( Spanish name : Manuel Castells Oliván , born in Hellín , Albacete , Spain , in 1942) is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research. The 2000–09 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social science scholar, and the foremost-cited communication scholar. [ 1 ] Manuel Castells was raised primarily in Barcelona .
Herbert Marshall McLuhan , CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator , philosopher , and scholar —a professor of English literature , a literary critic , a rhetorician , and a communication theorist . McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory , as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] McLuhan is known for coining the expressions " the medium is the message " and " the global village " and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented. [ 3 ] Although he was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, his influence started to wane in the early seventies. [ 4 ] In the years after his death, he would continue to be a controversial figure in academic circles. [ 5 ] With the arrival of the internet, however, there was renewed interest in his work and perspective. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ edit ] Life and career
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