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Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
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Description for Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Paperback. Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. This book argues for the need to understand digital culture - and its social, political, and ethical ramifications - in historical and philosophical context. Editor(s): Rabinovitz, Lauren; Geil, Abraham. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture—and its social, political, and ethical ramifications—in historical and philosophical context. Looking at a broad range of technologies, including photography, print and digital media, heat engines, stereographs, and medical imaging, the contributors present a number of different perspectives from which to reflect on the nature of media change. While foregrounding the challenges of drawing comparisons across varied media and eras, Memory Bytes explores how technologies ... Read more
Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture—and its social, political, and ethical ramifications—in historical and philosophical context. Looking at a broad range of technologies, including photography, print and digital media, heat engines, stereographs, and medical imaging, the contributors present a number of different perspectives from which to reflect on the nature of media change. While foregrounding the challenges of drawing comparisons across varied media and eras, Memory Bytes explores how technologies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822332411
SKU
V9780822332411
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About Rabinovitz
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
“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 ... Read more