Paper Knowledge
Toward a Media History of Documents
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2014
224 pages
978-0-8223-7676-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Duke University Press
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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.
Content
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
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
