Always Already New Media, History, and the Data of Culture

Name: Always Already New Media, History, and the Data of Culture
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ISBN: 9780262072717

ISBN-10: 0262072718

ISBN-13: 9780262072717

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lisa Gitelman

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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 similarities that underlie the cultural definition of records (phonographic and not) at the end of the nineteenth century and the definition of documents (digital and not) at the end of the twentieth. As a…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects



The Case of Phonographs



New Media Publics



New Media Users



The Question of the Web



New Media Bodies



New Media </Body>


Epilogue: Doing Media History


Notes


References


Index