Paper Knowledge - Toward a Media History of Documents

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Gitelman, Lisa/ McGill Gitelman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9780822356578
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5657-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• 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