Interview with Lev Manovich by Daniel Palmer

I just found the Interview that Daniel Palmer did with the renown Professor of New Media, Lev Manovich in 2001 for the magazine Real Time. It is interesting; he explicates the term ‘new media’ well.

Q. Why the language of ‘new media’ – which would seem to be an historically variable term – and not, for instance, ‘digital culture’? Early in the book you note that your method might be called ‘digital materialism’ (p.10). You also write that you want to avoid the general term ‘digital’ in the book (p.52), but it’s hard to find a page where the word doesn’t appear. I ask this terminological question, because you are so careful about defining the terms of the discussion.