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Digital mediaDigital media encompasses digital audio, digital video, the World Wide Web and other technologies that can be used to create and distribute digital "content".
Digital media represents a profound change from all previous media technologies. Post-production of digital media is cheaper and more flexible than that of analog media, and the end result can be reproduced indefinitely without any loss of quality.
Furthermore, digital content can be combined to make new forms of content. The first signs of this are visible in the use of techniques such as sampling and remixing in the music industry.
Digital media technologies have serious implications for companies that distribute content through physical media. The rise of the Internet has allowed digital media files to be copied in unlimited quantities at zero marginal cost; file sharing software has automated this process.
This presents problems for companies which vertically integrate media creation, processing, marketing and delivery, such as the record industry. Their current approach is to try to use copyright law, together with draconian new laws such as the DMCA to suppress these new technologies, in effect criminalizing their users.
These problems are exacerbated by the fact that the entertainment industry is relatively small compared with other industries such as the telecommunications and computer industries. Implementing restrictions on digital media to defend the entertainment industry would create serious problems for both of these industries, as well as serious implications for free speech.
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Shift
Japan-based e-zine "for digital generations". Features interviews and articles on art, design, fashion and new media. Numerous contributions by international guest artists.
http://www.shift.jp.org/
K3000
Webpage of the Zurich based group of artists, journalists and activists including k-bulletin, an irregulary edited cultural fanzine.
http://www.k3000.ch/
PEI Magazine
The authoritative electronic imaging magazine, extensive tutorials, tools, and articles.
http://www.peimag.com/
Wired Art from Wired Hearts
Eclectic e-zine: digital art, fractals, conceptual photography, intuitive paintings; unsettling, provocative, bizarre, and compassionate.
http://wiredheart.hispeed.com/
Tam Monitor
Arts journal featuring live webcast events, online reviews, web-based projects, audio essays, streaming video clips.
http://208.17.151.64/tam_monitor/
The Alt-X Online Publishing Network
Where the digerati meet the literati.
http://www.altx.com/
Fingertips
Cutting edge e-zine dedicated to design, art, and experimental web design., with archive of past issues.
http://fingertips.newdamage.com/
Charles Wolfe Edition-Digital Mayhem & Decadent Compositions
Charles Wolfe Edition contains limited edition prints, short stories and streaming video from Charles Wolfe and other contemporary American artists.
http://www.charleswolfe.com
DigitalThread
Design and production resource for digital artists and designers involved in new media or any aspect of visual design. Includes web design gallery and site reviews.
http://www.digitalthread.com/
Digitalsouls.com
Since 1997, features online presentations of the work of international new media artists.
http://www.digitalsouls.com/
InterCommunication
Internet edition of a journal exploring the frontiers of art and technology. English and Japanese.
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/iecontents_e.html
Leonardo On-Line
The site of Leonardo and The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST). For 30 years, Leonardo has focused on artists who work with twentieth-century evolving media involving technology and science.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/
Subterranean Notes
E-zine covering digital art, net art, new media, graphic design, hyperfiction, and electronic poetry. Extensive directory of links. Updated daily.
http://hine-digital-art.com/weblog/weblog.html
ITTCS
"Ideas... The Twenty-first Century Strain". Compilation of ideas and projects related with digital arts.
http://www.btinternet.com/~afrancisglelxl/
New Media Notes
A free e-mail newsletter and online resource for artists working with technology. Produced by the Artists Association of Ireland.
http://www.artistsireland.com/nmn/
Karenina IT
A review of virtuality and telematics. Italian and English.
http://geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html
Chorus
Exploring and supporting the use of new media in the arts and humanities. Reviews, original research, bibliographies, annotated links and Shockwave demonstrations.
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/
Cyanobacteria Publications
Cultivating experimental methods of creation in various arts (1993-1997).
http://www.thing.net/~grist/homecyan.htm
FineArt Forum
Explores the relationship between the arts, sciences and technology. Offers news and information online since 1987.
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/
Leonardo Electronic Almanac
An electronic journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm where art, science and technology converge. [Subscription required for most areas]
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/
Mediamatic Magazine
Magazine on art and new media and the changes being wrought by techno-culture, hypermedia and virtuality. Contains analysis, polemics, experimental theory, speculations and pure fiction.
http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/
Conceptualart.org
Critic magazine about visual arts and Net Art.
http://www.conceptualart.org/
Zn New Media
A journal of new media experimental visual literary theory.
http://www.warnell.com/zinen/
Iola
A personal magazine covering digital arts written by Robbin Murphy aka Murph the Surf.
http://artnetweb.com/iola/
Ctheory Multimedia
Supplement about multimedia of this international journal of theory, technology and culture. Articles, interviews and key book reviews in contemporary discourse.
http://ctheory.concordia.ca/
D+CON/trol
A online gallery featuring cutting edge artists in all media.
http://www.decontrol.com/
BBC Digital Arts
Information and artwork galleries. Artists can submit their own dynamic sounds and visuals to exhibit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/digital/
Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology
An online peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal that explores the areas where technology and art intersect.
http://crossings.tcd.ie/
NewMediaStudies.com
A site for the study of new media, containing book reviews, website reviews, web design guides, and Internet information.
http://www.newmediastudies.com/index2.htm
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