Rabinovitz / Geil Memory Bytes

History, Technology, and Digital Culture
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8569-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Essays on digital culture--what it is, its historical context, and its uses in the media, the film industry, and the sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabinovitz, Lauren

Geil, Abraham

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rigal, Laura

Depew, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil 1

Part I. Intellectual Histories of the Information Age

Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal 23

From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David DePew 47

The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day 76

Part II. Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses

More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz 99

Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States / Judith Babbitts 126

The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 150

Part III. Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion

Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History / John Durham Peters 177

Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls / Lisa Gitelman 199

Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics / Scott Curtis 218

Part IV. Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects

Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media / N. Katherine Hayles 257

Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions / Thomas Swiss 283

Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime / Vivian Sobchack 305

Selected Bibliography 331

Contributors 335

Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Rabinovitz is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943–1971 and coeditor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, also published by Duke University Press.Abraham Geil is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.