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Title Memory bytes : history, technology, and digital culture / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil, editors
Published Durham, [N.C.] ; London : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description vi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction / Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil -- Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 / Laura Rigal -- From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project / David Depew -- The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics / Ronald E. Day -- More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, IMAX, and Motion Simulation Rides / Lauren Rabinovitz -- Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [331]-334
Subject Mass media -- Technological innovations.
Communication -- History.
Digital media.
Author Rabinovitz, Lauren, 1950-
Geil, Abraham.
LC no. 2003015045
ISBN 0822332280 (cased)
0822332418 (paperback)