Richard Grusin Richard Grusin is Chair and Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as a member of Georgia Tech's Center for Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU). Grusin received his PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. His most recent work concerns the historical, cultural, and aesthetic antecedents of new digital media. With Jay David Bolter he is the author of Remediation: Understanding New Media, which has just been published by MIT Press. The book, which sketches out a genealogy of new media, begins with the contradictory visual logics underlying contemporary electronic media, and traces out these logics of mediation both historically and theoretically. The book answers the question of what is new about new media by proposing that new media are new precisely because of the ways in which they refashion older media. Currently he is completing a book-length project on the cultural origins of America's national parks.

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