Always Already New

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Media, History, and the Data of Culture

Lisa Gitelman (Professor, New York University)

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English

MIT Press
29 August 2008

Cultural studies; Media studies

Series: The MIT Press

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

By: Lisa Gitelman (Professor New York University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780262572477
ISBN 10: 0262572478
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 29 August 2008
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the coeditor of New Media, 1710-1915 (2003) and author of Always Already New- Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), both published by the MIT Press.

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

"""Gitelman's Always Already New artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced 'new media.' In this beautifully written book, she brings 'pastness' into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere."" Thom Swiss , interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of New Media Poetics ""Gitelman's *Always Already New* artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced 'new media.' In this beautifully written book, she brings 'pastness' into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere.""--Thom Swiss, interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of *New Media Poetics*"