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Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture

Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture

Geil, Abraham
Rabinovitz, Lauren

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General Sociology

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ISBN10: 0822332280
ISBN13: 9780822332282
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 12 2004
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes 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, Memory Bytes explores how technologies have been integrated into society at different moments in time.

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