Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age

by Alan Liu

Book Overview

Can today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the dynamic--and how do our current digital networks disrupt these same balances? Can our social media, with its fleeting nature, even be considered social at all?
In Friending the Past, Alan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022645195X
• ISBN13: 9780226451954
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"