The bounds for new media are set by five "principles of new media" present in most new media objects, which "should be considered not as absolute laws but rather as general tendencies of a culture undergoing computerization"
I was very confused by the discussion of binary and memory in chapter 2 of "The Computer." I found this in depth article helpful in understanding the technical language.
If you had trouble understand the class reading or thought it was too dumbed down here is another article by him that covers the same topic in less words but more in depth.
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"Many of the specific examples provided in Lev Manovich's discussion of new media's variability suffer from an imprecision that leaves unclear just how the Principle of Variability ought to be properly applied when thinking about new media objects" This article relates to the Manovich reading and variability.