The long history of new media
Subtitle: technology, historiography, and contextualizing newness
By: edited by David W. Park, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Steve Jones
Series: Digital formations -- v. 76
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781433114403; 9781433114410
Subjects: Social aspects; Digital media; Technological innovations; Digital media and culture
Description: This volume examines the role of history in the study of new media and of newness itself; discussing how the new in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. Furthermore, the new is constructed with an eye on the future, or more correctly, an eye on what we think the future will be. Chapters by eminent scholars address the connection between historical consideration and new media. Some assess the historical descriptions of the development of new media; others hinge on the issue of newness as it relates to existing practices in media history. Remaining essays address the shifting patterns of storage at work in media inscription, as they relate to the practice of history, and to the past and contemporary cultural formations. Together they offer a ground-breaking assessment of the long history of new media, clearly recognizing that the new media of today will be the traditional media of tomorrow, and that an emphasis on the history of the future sheds light on what this newness can be said to represent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: History and New Media / by David W. Park, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Steve Jones; title: Newness Contextualized.   The End of New Music? Digital Media, History, and the Idea of Attention / Devon Powers; title: "All You'll Need is a Mobile Couch": The History of Mobile Television in the United States /   Noah Arceneaux; title: Cutting the Cord and "Crying Socialist Wolf": Unwiring the Public and Producing the Third Place / Stephanie Ricker Schulte; title: Pre-Digital Virtuality: Early Modern Scholars and the Republic of Letters / Christian Thorsten Callisen & Barbara Adkins; title: New Media History and Theory.  Sound Studies for Historians of New Media / Travers Scott; title: What if the Internet Did Not Speak English? New and Old Language for Studying Newer Media Technologies  / Zizi Papacharissi & Elain Yuan; title: The Evolving Medium is the Message: McLuhan, Medium Theory, and Cognitive Neuroscience / Teresa M. Harrison; title: The Analog History of the "Digital Divide" / Dmitry Epstein; title: Twenty Years of Unnecessary Forward Slashes: Towards a Post-ontological Critique of Narratives of the Development of the Web / Michael Dick; title: Comparative Approaches. Interface: History of a Concept, 1868-1888  / Peter Schaefer; title: The Long History of Digital Radio: Old Media in a New Century / Brian O'Neill; title: New Media in Crises: Discursive Instability and Emergency Communication  / Benjamin Peters & Deborah Lubken; title: Pipeline as Network: Pneumatic Systems and the Social Order / Holly Kruse; title: Telephone Media: An Old Story / Gerard Goggin; title: New Media and Historiography. Web Historiography and the Emergence of New Archival Forms / Meghan Dougherty & Steven M. Schneider; title: The Evolution of Audience Labor: Appropriating Online Activities / Fernando Bermejo; title: Digital History and a Register of Websites: An Old Practice with New Implications / Niels Brügger; title: Placing Location-Aware Media in a History of the Virtual / Adriana de Souza e Silva & Daniel M. Sutko; title: "It's Not Really Our Content": The Moving Image and Media History in the Digital Archive Age / Simon Popple.