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Memory bytes : history, technology, and digital culture / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Technological innovations.
- Mass media.
- Communication--History.
- Communication.
- Digital media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays on digital culture--what it is, its historical context, and its uses in the media, the film industry, and the sciences.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Intellectual histories of the information age ; Imperial attractions: Benjamin Franklin's new experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal ; From heat engines to digital printouts: machine models of the body from the Victorian era to the human genome project / David Depew ; The erasure and construction of history for the information age: positivism and its critics / Ronald E. Day
- pt. II. Visual culture, subjectivity, and the education of the senses ; More than the movies: a history of somatic visual culture through Hale's tours, IMAX, and motion simulation rides / Lauren Rabinovitz ; Stereographs and the construction of a visual culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts ; The convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: the next generation of military training simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
- pt. III. Materiality, time, and the reproduction of sound and motion ; Helmholtz, Edison, and sound history / John Durham Peters ; Media, materiality, and the measure of the digital, or, The case of sheet music and the problem of piano rolls / Lisa Gitelman ; Still/moving: digital imaging and medical hermeneutics / Scott Curtis
- pt. IV. Digital aesthetics, social texts, and art objects ; Bodies of texts, bodies of subjects: metaphoric networks in new media / N. Katherine Hayles ; Electronic literature: discourses, communities, traditions / Thomas Swiss ; Nostalgia for a digital object: regrets on the quickening of quicktime / Vivian Sobchack.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-92121-5
- 9786612921216
- 0-8223-8569-4
- OCLC:
- 850219459
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