Cover of Always Already New: Media, History, And The Data Of Culture

Always Already New: Media, History, And The Data Of Culture

Providing an analysis of the ways in which new media is experienced and studied, this book points toward similarities that underlie the cultural definition of records at the end of the 19th century, and the definition of documents at the end of the 20th.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 205 pages

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