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51 produkter
Paper Knowledge
Toward a Media History of Documents
Häftad, 2014
272 kr
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Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that …
Undersea Network
Häftad, 2015
321 kr
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In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski follows these cables …
MP3
The Meaning of a Format
Häftad, 2012
456 kr
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from …
Japanoise
Music at the Edge of Circulation
Av David Novak
Inbunden, 2013
1369 kr
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Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top …
Japanoise
Music at the Edge of Circulation
Av David Novak
Häftad, 2013
326 kr
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Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top …
Paper Knowledge
Toward a Media History of Documents
Inbunden, 2014
1273 kr
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Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that …
Aurality
Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Inbunden, 2014
1195 kr
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In this audacious book, Ana MarÍa Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by …
Forensic Media
Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity
Av Greg Siegel
Inbunden, 2014
1273 kr
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In Forensic Media, Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Charles Babbage's invention of a …
Undersea Network
Inbunden, 2015
1253 kr
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In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski follows these cables …
Aurality
Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Häftad, 2014
311 kr
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In this audacious book, Ana MarÍa Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by …
Forensic Media
Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity
Av Greg Siegel
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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In Forensic Media, Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Charles Babbage's invention of a …
Sensing Sound
Singing and Listening As Vibrational Practice
Inbunden, 2015
1195 kr
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In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses …
Sensing Sound
Singing and Listening As Vibrational Practice
Häftad, 2015
307 kr
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In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses …
Bright Signals
A History of Color Television
Av Susan Murray
Inbunden, 2018
1808 kr
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First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was …
Bright Signals
A History of Color Television
Av Susan Murray
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was …
Hush
Media and Sonic Self-Control
Av Mack Hagood
Inbunden, 2019
1583 kr
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For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves-from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's “Hear What You Want” ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood …
Hush
Media and Sonic Self-Control
Av Mack Hagood
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves-from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre's “Hear What You Want” ad campaign, in which Colin Kaepernick's headphones protect him from taunting crowds. In Hush, Mack Hagood …
Radiant Infrastructures
Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty
Inbunden, 2020
1583 kr
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In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. …
Seeing by Electricity
The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939
Av Doron Galili
Inbunden, 2020
1583 kr
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Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would “see” by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of …
Information Activism
A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Inbunden, 2020
1217 kr
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For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed …
Slow Disturbance
Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
Av Rafico Ruiz
Inbunden, 2021
1195 kr
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From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk …
Radiant Infrastructures
Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. …
Seeing by Electricity
The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939
Av Doron Galili
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would “see” by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of …
Information Activism
A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Häftad, 2020
312 kr
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For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed …
Slow Disturbance
Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
Av Rafico Ruiz
Häftad, 2021
297 kr
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From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk …
American Blockbuster
Movies, Technology, and Wonder
Inbunden, 2020
1301 kr
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Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of this most visible, entertaining, and disparaged cultural …
American Blockbuster
Movies, Technology, and Wonder
Häftad, 2020
345 kr
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Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of this most visible, entertaining, and disparaged cultural …
Stone and the Wireless
Mediating China, 1861–1906
Av Shaoling Ma
Inbunden, 2021
1253 kr
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In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and …
Stone and the Wireless
Mediating China, 1861–1906
Av Shaoling Ma
Häftad, 2021
281 kr
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In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and …
How Machines Came to Speak
Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech
Inbunden, 2022
1112 kr
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In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, …
