Lisa Gitelman: Paper Knowledge | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822356578 | Paper Knowledge | Toward a Media History of Documents | Lisa Gitelman

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Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpress printing, typing and carbon paper, mimeograph, microfilm, offset printing, photocopying, and scanning. Whether examining late nineteenth century commercial, or "job" printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, Gitelman reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. She tells nuanced, anecdote-filled stories of the waning of old technologies and the emergence of new. Along the way, she discusses documentary matters such as the relation between twentieth-century technological innovation and the management of paper, and the interdependence of computer programming and documentation. Paper Knowledge is destined to set a new agenda for media studies.

Über den Autor

Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture and Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era and the editor of "Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron and New Media, 1740–1915.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction. Paper Knowledge 1

1. A Short History of ________ 21

2. The Typescript Book 53

3. Xerographers of the Mind 83

4. Near Print and Beyond Paper: Knowing by *.pdf 111

Afterword. Amateurs Rush In 136

Notes 151

Works Cited 189

Index 205

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822356578
ISBN-10:	0822356570
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gitelman, Lisa
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 151 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Lisa Gitelman
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.03.2014
Gewicht:	0,366 kg