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

by Lisa Gitelman

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An analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as the subjects of history, using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks.

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Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 302.2309 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Mass Communication & Media Communication Media (Means of communication)
LCC: P90 .G4776 — Language and Literature Philology. Linguistics Communication. Mass media
BISAC: SOC SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies
TEC TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING History

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Languages: English
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Published: 2006
Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 302.2309
LCC: P90 .G4776

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