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The machine in the ghost : digitality and its consequences / Robin Boast.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boast, Robin (Professor of Cultural Information Science), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 Digital Codes, Ticker Tape, Punched Cards and Teleprinting: on the Origin of Digitality 17
- 2 Data Encoding and Storage Before the Computer 42
- 3 Revisiting Computation: Computation Doesn't Need to be Digital 75
- 4 Back to Content: From Computation to Media 115
- 5 Media Clones, Multiple Renderings: The Consequences of the Digital 160.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1780237391
- 9781780237398
- OCLC:
- 951753712
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