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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 the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpress printing, typing and carbon paper, mimeograph, microfilm, offset printing, photocopying, and scanning. Whether examining late nineteenth century commercial, or job printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, Gitelman reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. She tells nuanced, anecdote-filled stories of the waning of old technologies and the emergence of new. Along the way, she discusses documentary matters such as the relation between twentieth-century technological innovation and the management of paper, and the interdependence of computer programming and documentation. Paper Knowledge is destined to set a new agenda for media studies.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139780822356578
eBay Product ID (ePID)209652150
Product Key Features
Book TitlePaper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
AuthorLisa Gitelman
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2014
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLisa Gitelman
Series TitleSign, Storage, Transmission
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States