Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents by Lisa Gitelman

Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents

Lisa Gitelman

224 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and ...

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