Paper Knowledge - Toward a Media History of Documents

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Gitelman Klappentext 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Gitelman, Lisa/ McGill Gitelman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9780822356455
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5645-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission; Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries