Mechanisms
Subtitle: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: January 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780262113113
Subjects: Media Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Information Storage & Retrieval; Social Science / Methodology; Methodology; Data processing; Discourse analysis; Mass media; Mass media and language; Technological innovations
Description: Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability.