@gitelmanMediaHistoricalSubjects2006 source
Title:@gitelmanMediaHistoricalSubjects2006 date: January 22,2023 type: reference project:
Reference¶
Gitelman, Lisa. 2006. “Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects,” Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (MIT Press)
Summary & Key Take Aways¶
In the introduction to Media as Historical Subjects(2006), Lisa Gitelman asserts that media as a whole is experienced and studied as historical subjects. To build this argument, Gitelman looks at different case studies that examine media throughout history. Gitelman explores this to understand how people communicate with each other and to identify culture throughout history.
Links¶
Gitelman wants us to think of the future media and how something now will evolve to become better overtime.
Gitelmen eventually gives a definition of media.
She also talks about policing media.
It is not just the message itself that gives meaning, but the Medium is important.
When we talk about the internet Specificity is key.
Opposing policing media is changing how we take in knowledge. memex 2: medium is a carrier memex 3: thinking back on old media