Author: 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 chal …

A cultural history of media that were "new media" in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to s …

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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 exa …