User contributions for Wtrettien

20 January 2025

• 17:0217:02, 20 January 2025 diff hist +22,955‎ N Mullaney 2017 ‎ Created page with "Mullaney, Thomas S. ''The Chinese Typewriter: A History.'' MIT Press, 2017. Mullaney - The Chinese Typewriter A History Introduction: There is No Alphabet Here There was a Chinese dao to match the Greek logos, one that functioned according to a two-part organizational system well known in China. In the first of these, Chinese characters are ordered according to the number of pen- or brushstrokes needed to compose them, an organizational scheme that had been a mainstay..." current
• 16:5616:56, 20 January 2025 diff hist +96‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Computing current

12 January 2025

• 01:0701:07, 12 January 2025 diff hist −1,580‎ Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎No edit summary current
• 00:5800:58, 12 January 2025 diff hist +51,690‎ Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎ →‎The computer becomes a personal plaything
• 00:5400:54, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,407‎ Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎ →‎The computer becomes a communications platform
• 00:5400:54, 12 January 2025 diff hist +6,084‎ Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎ →‎The computer becomes an interactive tool
• 00:5400:54, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,799‎ Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎ →‎The computer becomes a real-time control system
• 00:5300:53, 12 January 2025 diff hist +13,749‎ Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎ →‎The computer becomes a data processing device

6 January 2025

• 19:2519:25, 6 January 2025 diff hist +25,589‎ N Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 ‎ Created page with "Haigh and Ceruzzi, ''A New History of Modern Computing'' (2021) == Becoming Universal: Introducing a New History of Computing == The wholesale shift of video and music reproduction to digital technologies likewise challenges us to integrate media history into the long his- tory of computing. Since the original book was written, the computer had become something new, which meant that the book also had to become something n… Yet this discussion is rarely grounded in..."
• 03:0803:08, 6 January 2025 diff hist +132‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Computing

17 December 2024

• 02:4202:42, 17 December 2024 diff hist +159‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies
• 02:0402:04, 17 December 2024 diff hist +157‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies
• 02:0402:04, 17 December 2024 diff hist +759‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies
• 02:0002:00, 17 December 2024 diff hist +122‎ Schorb 2014 ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5901:59, 17 December 2024 diff hist +790‎ N Schorb 2014 ‎ Created page with "Schorb, Reading Prisoners Interested in how literate practices show up in relation to prisons, e.g. gallows and confession literature, prison libraries, prisoner education and transformation. Library histories have claimed that education has always been entangled with prisons from their earliest days but this is not true. Wines and Dwight – 225-232 – reporting on secular instruction, literacy instruction, and rise of libraries in prisons (qtd in Schorb 131) See 13..."
• 01:5901:59, 17 December 2024 diff hist +382‎ N Sweeney 2010 ‎ Created page with "Sweeney, Megan. ''Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons.'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. "explores how some women prisoners use the limited reading materials available to them in creative and important ways: to come to terms with their pasts, to negotiate their present experiences, and to reach toward different futures."" current
• 01:5801:58, 17 December 2024 diff hist +337‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies

13 August 2024

• 20:3020:30, 13 August 2024 diff hist +306‎ Charles Babbage ‎No edit summary current

21 June 2024

• 18:5218:52, 21 June 2024 diff hist +125‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Compositors / Typography / Typesetting
• 18:5118:51, 21 June 2024 diff hist +143‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Compositors / Typography / Typesetting
• 18:4918:49, 21 June 2024 diff hist +4,084‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary current
• 18:1118:11, 21 June 2024 diff hist +161‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prints
• 18:1018:10, 21 June 2024 diff hist −113‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Media / Digital Book Studies

20 June 2024

• 18:5718:57, 20 June 2024 diff hist +3,922‎ N Otis 2024 ‎ Created page with "Otis, Jessica Marie. ''By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England.'' Oxford: Oxford UP, 2024. Introduction—“Number, Weight and Measure”: Numeracy in Early Modern England This transformation in numerical practices was complex and wide-ranging in its impact on early modern society and thought. In part, it was a transfor- mation in symbolic systems—the culturally agreed upon symbols and syntax used to represent..." current
• 18:5618:56, 20 June 2024 diff hist +163‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Early Modern

17 June 2024

• 15:0415:04, 17 June 2024 diff hist +4,103‎ N Coulter 1935 ‎ Created page with "Coulter MA thesis on prison journals Begins with poem — Ralph Chaplin, “Night in the Cell-House” “Material on the subject of prison journals is very limited — confined mostly to magazine articles, the Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the National Prison Association, writings of ex-convicts, and the prison journals themselves.” — so also sent out a questionnaire to 266 institutions Managed to receive info for 258 institutions Low level of education..." current
• 15:0315:03, 17 June 2024 diff hist +163‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies
• 14:3314:33, 17 June 2024 diff hist +22,759‎ N Fleetwood 2020 ‎ Created page with "Fleetwood, Nicole R. ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. What I learned is that art in prison is a practice of survival, an aesthetic journey that documents time in captivity, a mode of connecting with others, but it does not resolve the injustices rooted in the carceral system. Page 23 This book focuses on the art and aesthetic experiments of people imprisoned in the massive labyrinth of domestic jails an..." current
• 14:3214:32, 17 June 2024 diff hist +141‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies

12 June 2024

• 21:4321:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist +328‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary
• 21:4121:41, 12 June 2024 diff hist +5,349‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary
• 21:1421:14, 12 June 2024 diff hist +7,511‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary
• 20:4320:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist +2,318‎ N Cockburn 1983 ‎ Created page with "Cockburn, Cynthia. ''Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change.'' Pluto Press, 1983. marxist approaches to labor of compositors can't account for the gender dynamics within the industry apprenticeship in a chapel for a set number of years, male rituals after industrialization: "Womena nd children, who had characteristically worked and earned within a family context, were increasingly drawn into employment in factories and mines. Here they came under the contro..."
• 20:3220:32, 12 June 2024 diff hist +113‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Media / Digital Book Studies

23 May 2024

• 14:4914:49, 23 May 2024 diff hist +172‎ N Joseph Marie Jacquard and his loom ‎ Created page with "Jacquard punched cards in the collection at Thomas Jefferson University: * https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34637604 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34637603" current

22 May 2024

• 19:0319:03, 22 May 2024 diff hist +13,000‎ N Fagone 2017 ‎ Created page with "Fagone, Jason. ''The Woman Who Smashed Codes.'' 2017. Riverbank Laboratories, a bizarre institution now abandoned, a place that helped create the modern NSA but which the NSA knew little about. Elizebeth and her future husband, William Friedman, had lived there when they were young, between 1916 and 1920, when they discovered a series of techniques and patterns that changed cryptology forever. Elizebeth later wrote that seeing the Folio gave her the same feeling “tha..." current
• 19:0119:01, 22 May 2024 diff hist +72‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Computing
• 18:2618:26, 22 May 2024 diff hist +9,533‎ N Lupton 2018 ‎ Created page with "Lupton, Christina. ''Reading and the Marking of Time in the Eighteenth Century.'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. == Introduction: When Do We Read? == Our days are flooded with small texts that contract and expand to fit the minutes we choose to give them. But when do we read books, those texts whose heft seems more plaintively than ever an appeal to reading’s duration? 1 I do not believe that the minutes crowded by messages, HBO series, and childc..." current
• 15:3115:31, 22 May 2024 diff hist +149‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Reading / Compiling / Arranging
• 14:5514:55, 22 May 2024 diff hist +10‎ Lupton 2012 ‎ →‎Introduction: Giving Power to the Medium current
• 14:4014:40, 22 May 2024 diff hist +3‎ Lupton 2012 ‎ →‎Introduction: Giving Power to the Medium
• 14:3914:39, 22 May 2024 diff hist +8,599‎ Lupton 2012 ‎ →‎Prologue
• 14:3014:30, 22 May 2024 diff hist +4,375‎ N Lupton 2012 ‎ Created page with "Lupton, ''Knowing Books'' (2012) == Prologue == Almost immediately, I was struck by the ways much of this literature was self-reflexive in its own terms, not just about representation, but about the material, economic, and colonial contexts of textual production. Could imperialist and elitist l ture that announced its ideological operations be held responsible for them in the same way as literature that conducted them more by stealth? Were commercially produced texts..."
• 14:2814:28, 22 May 2024 diff hist +172‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Book History

5 April 2024

• 15:2515:25, 5 April 2024 diff hist +15‎ Mechanical typesetting ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2515:25, 5 April 2024 diff hist +8,817‎ N Mechanical typesetting ‎ Created page with "== Melissa Score, "Interred in Printing House Vaults: Pianotype Composing Machines of the 1840s," ''Victorian Periodicals Review'' 49.4 (Winter 2016): 578-597. == …the pianotype composing machine is not just a footnote in the inevitable rise of Linotype technology but an artefact that interro- gates preconceived ideas of the compositor’s role and raises the question of why, in the 1840s and 1850s, the mechanization of typesetting was inspired by the workings of the..."
• 15:2115:21, 5 April 2024 diff hist +48‎ Typewriters ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 5 April 2024 diff hist +32‎ N Player piano ‎ Created page with "see Ord-Hume, ''Pianola'' (1984)" current
• 15:1815:18, 5 April 2024 diff hist +18‎ From Type to .txt ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 5 April 2024 diff hist +80‎ Telegraphy ‎No edit summary current