![]() LEV MANOVICH: The goal of my book is to understand media software-its genealogy (where does it come from), its anatomy (the key features shared by all media viewing and editing software), and its effects in the world (pragmatics). How does one study software? In other words, what is the object of study-do you focus more on the interface, or the underlying code, or some combination of the two? ![]() MICHAEL CONNOR: I want to start with the question of methodology. Photograph published in Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, "Personal Dynamic Media" with the caption, "Kids learning to use the interim Dynabook." I interviewed him about his most recent book, Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, July 2014). Lev Manovich is a leading theorist of cultural objects produced with digital technology, perhaps best known for The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001). ![]()
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