CRDM 2013 Emerging Genres Symposium Keynote: Lisa Gitelman
Channel: NC State Doctoral Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)
Date: 2013-06-17

Lisa Gitelman's "Amateurdom and Its Discontents, Or, What Is a Zine?" keynote talk for the 2013 Symposium on Emerging Genres, Forms, Narratives—in New Media Environments. Held by the North Carolina State University program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media.

Lisa Gitelman is a media historian and Professor in the departments of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is particularly concerned with tracing the patterns according to which new media become meaningful within and against the contexts of older media. Her most recent book is titled Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (MIT Press, 2006). Her current projects include a monograph, "The Scriptural Economy: A Media History of Documents," and an edited collection, "'Raw Data' Is an Oxymoron." She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and is  a former editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. 

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