Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Memory Bytes

History, Technology, and Digital Culture

Edited by: Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil
With contributions by: Laura Rigal and David Depew

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385691

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Intellectual Histories of the Information Age
Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin’s New Experiments of 1751 Laura Rigal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project David Depew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics Ronald E. Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
PART II Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses
More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale’s Tours, imax, and Motion Simulation Rides Lauren Rabinovitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States Judith Babbitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
PART III Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion
Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History John Durham Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls Lisa Gitelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics Scott Curtis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
PART IV Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects
Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media N. Katherine Hayles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions Thomas Swiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime Vivian Sobchack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 7 b&w photos

eBook

Published: January 12, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385691