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Memory Bytes
History, Technology, and Digital Culture
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2004
About this book
Essays on digital culture--what it is, its historical context, and its uses in the media, the film industry, and the sciences.
Author / Editor information
Lauren Rabinovitz is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943–1971 and coeditor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, also published by Duke University Press.
Abraham Geil is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.
Reviews
“Anyone who teaches courses in digital culture or media studies knows how difficult it is to find scholarly essays on new media that consider these developments in relation to social and technological precedents. Memory Bytes fills this gap.”—Brian Goldfarb, author of Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom
“Memory Bytes is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship taking the current moment of media change as an incitement to re-examine earlier moments in media history. The range of media, historical periods, and disciplinary perspectives is spectacular, representing interdisciplinary collaboration and conversation at its very best.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
1 - PART I Intellectual Histories of the Information Age
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Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751
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From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project
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The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics
76 - PART II Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses
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More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale’s Tours, imax, and Motion Simulation Rides
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Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States
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The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations
150 - PART III Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion
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Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History
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Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls
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Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics
218 - PART IV Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects
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Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media
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Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions
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Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime
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Selected Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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January 12, 2004
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