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How Images Think is a book about new media by Ron Burnett published by MIT Press in 2004. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. Nayar, Pramod K. (2005). "How images think". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56 (10): 1126–1127. doi:10.1002/asi.20170.
  2. Cohen, Hart (2005). "Review: How Images Think". Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy. 115 (1): 138–139. doi:10.1177/1329878X0511500115. ISSN   1329-878X. S2CID   188475731.
  3. Elkins, James (2007). "How Images Think (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 76 (1): 315–316. doi:10.1353/utq.2007.0072. ISSN   1712-5278. S2CID   161656200.
  4. VanderBurgh, Jennifer (2005). "Materializing PerceptionBurnett, Ron. 2004. How Images Think. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Cubitt, Sean. 2004. The Cinema Effect. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press". TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 13: 169–172. doi:10.3138/topia.13.169. ISSN   1206-0143.