Series Foreword ix Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Transition 1(18) David Thorburn Henry Jenkins I Media Changes Web of Paradox 19(4) David Thorburn Historicizing Media in Transition 23(16) William Uricchio Re-Newing Old Technologies: Astonishment, Second Nature, and the Uncanny in Technology from the Previous Turn-of-the-Century 39(22) Tom Gunning How Users Define New Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph 61(20) Lisa Gitelman Books Are Dead, Long Live Books 81(14) Priscilla Coit Murphy Help or Hindrance? The History of the Book and Electronic Media 95(22) Paul Erickson Historical Perspectives on the Book and Information Technology 117(20) Gregory Crane Potholes on the Information Superhighway: Congress as a Publisher in Nineteenth-Century America 137(26) Oz Frankel Prophetic Peasants and Bourgeois Pamphleteers: The Camisards Represented in Print, 1685--1710 163(28) Daniel Thorburn Redefining the Home Screen: Technological Convergence as Trauma and Business Plan 191(12) William Boddy II Emerging Forms and Practices Homer to Home Page: Designing Digital Books 203(14) William J. Mitchell Reflections on Interactivity 217(10) Luis O. Arata Forms of Future 227(12) Michael Joyce Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl 239(14) Shelley Jackson ``Let's Be Going'': A Parent Reads GeekCereal 253(8) Peter Donaldson Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture 261(20) Sharon Cumberland Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture 281(34) Henry Jenkins III Visual Culture Immersion in the Virtual Ornament: Contemporary ``Movie Ride'' Films 315(22) Constance Balides The Virtual Window 337(18) Anne Friedberg Architectures of the Senses: Neo-Baroque Entertainment Spectacles 355(20) Angela Ndalianis Media Technology and Museum Display: A Century of Accommodation and Conflict 375(16) Alison Griffiths Contributors 391(4) Index 395