{"product_id":"memory-bytes-history-technology-and-digital-culture-9780822332411","title":"Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture","description":"Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. \u003ci\u003eMemory Bytes\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMemory Bytes\u003c\/i\u003e explores how technologies have been integrated into society at different moments in time.\u003cp\u003eThese essays from scholars in the social sciences and humanities cover topics related to science and medicine, politics and war, mass communication, philosophy, film, photography, and art. Whether describing how the cultural and legal conflicts over player piano rolls prefigured controversies over the intellectual property status of digital technologies such as mp3 files; comparing the experiences of watching QuickTime movies to Joseph Cornell's \"boxed relic\" sculptures of the 1930s and 1940s; or calling for a critical history of electricity from the Enlightenment to the present, \u003ci\u003eMemory Bytes\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the interplay of technology and culture. It relates the Information Age to larger and older political and cultural phenomena, analyzes how sensory effects have been technologically produced over time, considers how human subjectivity has been shaped by machines, and emphasizes the dependence of particular technologies on the material circumstances within which they were developed and used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Judith Babbitts, Scott Curtis, Ronald E. Day, David Depew, Abraham Geil, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Lisa Gitelman, N. Katherine Hayles, John Durham Peters, Lauren Rabinovitz, Laura Rigal, Vivian Sobchack, Thomas Swiss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Rabinovitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.64w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822332411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2004 pg. 477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Rabinovitz is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFor the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePoints of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-1971\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTelevision, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbraham Geil is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40198563922035,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a6e4955a-3bcf-4867-b182-f20012052772.jpg?v=1656078817","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/memory-bytes-history-technology-and-digital-culture-9780822332411","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}