New Media Vocabulary

The following vocabulary appears in much of the reading for new media courses. As you encounter each term in your research, consider its meaning as the author uses it and also in the broader context of new media. Please feel free to begin defining these terms; any missing should be added.

Alienation to Cyborg

• Alienation
• Aporia
• Bricolage
• Camp
• Cinema Verité
• Code
• (Popular) Culture
• Cut
• Cyberspace
• Cyborg

Decentering to Frame

• Decentering
• Decoding
• Deconstruction
• Digital
• Evolution
• Fetish
• Fiction
• Film
• Film Theory
• Flow
• Fragmentation
• Frame/Framing

Gaze to Jump Cut

• Gaze
• Genetic Engineering
• Glance
• Imaginary
• Hyperreality
• Hypertext
• Jump Cut

Metaphor to Pastiche

• Metaphor
• Metaphysics
• Metonymy
• Mimesis
• Nanotechnology
• Narrative
• Naturalization
• New Media Studies
• Palimpsest
• Paradigm
• Pastiche

Reader to Symbolic

• Reader / User / Audience
• Realism
• Representation
• Rhizome
• Robotics
• Scopophilia
• Sex/Gender System
• Simulacra
• Simulation
• Spectacle
• Science (Speculative) Fiction
• Symbolic

Text to Voyeurism

• Text
• Verisimilitude
• Virtual Reality
• Visual Pleasure
• Voyeurism