The New Media Reader is a new media textbook edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort and published through The MIT Press. The book reprints over sixty foundational writings first published between 1941 and 1995 that are among the most influential in the field of new media studies. It also includes a CD-ROM with video and software artifacts, dating from the 1960s to 1996. The textbook is currently in use at multiple college campuses including Brown University, Duke University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. wikipedia 