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

作者: Lisa Gitelman

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摘要: This work provides an analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as subjects history, using examples early recorded sound digital networks. In "Always Already New", Lisa Gitelman explores newness while she asks what it means to do history. Using networks, challenges readers think about simultaneous instruments historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies Edison's first phonographs Pentagon's distributed network, ARPANET, points suggestively toward similarities underlie cultural definition records (phonographic not) at end nineteenth century documents (digital twentieth. As a result, New" speaks present concerns humanities much emergent field studies. Records kernels humanistic thought, after all, part party impulse preserve interpret. Gitelman's argument suggests inventive contexts for "humanities computing" also offering perspective on such traditional disciplines literary Making extensive use archival sources, describes in which digitally networked text each emerged local anomalies were yet deeply embedded within reigning logic public life memory. end, turns World Wide Web how history is already being told, might resist be producing conditions its own historicity.