Always Already New
Media, History, and the Data of Culture
$70.86
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2008
Summary
In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison’s first phonographs and the Pentagon’s first distributed digital network, the ARPANET, Gitelman points suggestively toward similarit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262572477 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262572478 |
| Author: | Lisa Gitelman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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“Gitelman’s Always Already New artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced ‘new media.’ In this beautifully written book, she brings ‘pastness’ into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere.” Thom Swiss , interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of New Media Poetics “Gitelman’s Always Already New artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced ‘new media.’ In this beautifully written book, she brings ‘pastness’ into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere.”–Thom Swiss, interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of New Media Poetics
About The Author
Lisa Gitelman
Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the coeditor of New Media, 1710-1915 (2003) and author of Always Already New- Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), both published by the MIT Press.
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