Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture

by Lisa Gitelman

Book Overview

In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison's first phonographs and the Pentagon's first distributed digital network, the ARPANET,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262572478
• ISBN13: 9780262572477
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher