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  • 23:5923:59, 27 August 2025 diff hist +13,136 N McIlwain 2020Created page with "McIlwain, Charlton D. ''Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.'' Oxford University Press, 2020. Black America dragged Jim Crow to its deathbed in the 1960s. Still, the nation’s elite science and engineering institutions—the ones that were developing the first digital computers—locked black Americans out of their ranks. Back in 1964, this moved scholars from talking merely about technologi- cal systems and relation..." current
  • 23:5023:50, 27 August 2025 diff hist +166 Main Page→‎Software Studies
  • 23:3723:37, 27 August 2025 diff hist +10,685 N Poovey 2008Created page with "Poovey, Mary. ''Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. …it was not until Literature was declared to be a different kind of imaginative writing that a secular model of value completely at odds with the market model was articulated. When this occurred, Literary writing gave up its claim to be valuable in the old sense, precisely by insisting that it was more valuable in a..." current
  • 23:3523:35, 27 August 2025 diff hist −5 Main Page→‎History of Computing / Information
  • 23:3523:35, 27 August 2025 diff hist +178 Main Page→‎History of Computing / Information
  • 23:3323:33, 27 August 2025 diff hist +31,261 N Hacking 1990Created page with "Hacking, Ian. ''The Taming of Chance.'' Cambridge University Press, 1990. During the nineteenth century it became possible to see that the world might be regular and yet not subject to universal laws of nature. A space was cleared for chance. Page 14 Something else was pervasive and every- body came to know about it: the enumeration of people and their habits. Society became statistical. Page 14 A new type of law came into being, analogous to the laws of nature, bu..." current
  • 23:3323:33, 27 August 2025 diff hist +93 Main Page→‎History of Computing / Information

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  • 23:1923:19, 20 August 2025 diff hist +1,398 Park, Jankowski and Jones 2011No edit summary current
  • 19:1519:15, 20 August 2025 diff hist +24,076 N Bryan-Wilson 2017Created page with "Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Fray: Art + Textile Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2017. == Introduction == What does it mean to imagine the sewing needle as a dangerous tool and to envision female collective textile making as a process that might upend conventions, threaten state structures, or wreak political havoc? An article on the Republican Party national field director Maxene Fernstrom from 1981 recounts that “she turns heads when she bursts into a room wearing..." current
  • 19:1119:11, 20 August 2025 diff hist +133 Main Page→‎Shakespeare
  • 19:0919:09, 20 August 2025 diff hist +10,245 N Graziano 2025Created page with "Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. ''Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity.'' Pluto Press, 2025. rather than the hypermasculine ideal of a swashbuck- ler, we want to refocus attention on the pirate as a disabled worker (with the eye patch, hook hand, peg leg) cultivating rebellious forms of solidarity and care. When pirates seized a ship that would other- wise almost certainly have been their coffin, they were appropriating the pin..." current
  • 19:0719:07, 20 August 2025 diff hist +155 Main Page→‎Notes
  • 19:0419:04, 20 August 2025 diff hist +5,689 TelegraphyNo edit summary current
  • 19:0019:00, 20 August 2025 diff hist +23,954 N Menke 2019Created page with "Menke, Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 (2019) Introduction: Inventing Media and Their Meanings - The Phonautograph and Nineteenth-Century Media The phonautograph and its successors were a landmark in the study of sound. But their inventor Léon Scott was no scientist or engineer. Rather, he came to imagine a machine for capturing sound because of his desire to optimize and automate the great medium of writing. As a printer and typesetter..." current
  • 19:0019:00, 20 August 2025 diff hist +93 Main Page→‎19th Century Media & Technology
  • 18:5918:59, 20 August 2025 diff hist +16,184 N Krajewski 2014Created page with "Krajewski, Markus. World projects : global information before World War I. 2014. in the second half of the nineteenth century, big business no longer ori- ents itself according to national borders. The age of corporations begins, and they pursue their business in the international setting and thus build new commercial empires. Page 1 As the laying of railroad ties was accompanied by the erection of telegraph poles, the deep sea cable was sunk beneath the main routes o..." current
  • 18:5818:58, 20 August 2025 diff hist +41 Main Page→‎19th Century Media & Technology
  • 18:5718:57, 20 August 2025 diff hist +3,219 N Abbate 1999Created page with "Abbate, Janet. ''Inventing the Internet.'' MIT Press, 1999. == Introduction == The history of the Internet is not, therefore, a story of a few heroic inventors; it is a tale of collaboration and conºict among a remarkable variety of players. Page 3 In telling the story of the Internet, I also try to ªll a gap in historical writing about computers. Much of the literature on the history of computing has focused on changes in hardware, on the achievements of individu..." current
  • 18:5618:56, 20 August 2025 diff hist +78 Main Page→‎History of Computing / Information
  • 18:5518:55, 20 August 2025 diff hist +29,983 N Abbate 2012Created page with "Abbate, Janet. Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. MIT Press, 2012. Why were women encouraged to take up skilled computing work in the 1940s and 1950s, a period when many other technical professions did not welcome them? And given this early success, why are there not more women in the computing professions today? Page 12 The invisibility of women also reflects a more general bias: early histo- ries of computing largely equated computing with..." current
  • 18:5318:53, 20 August 2025 diff hist +8,481 N Miller 2022Created page with "Miller, Tiffany. ''The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age.'' University of Arizona Press, 2022. In this book I draw on arguments like these and the cyclical character- istics of media they begin to make visible. But I also cast them against In- digenous concepts of recorded knowledge, which provide a model for how to think about form both holistically and independent of narratives of pro- gression or development. Page 3 Dig..." current
  • 18:5318:53, 20 August 2025 diff hist +159 Main Page→‎History of "New Media"
  • 18:4918:49, 20 August 2025 diff hist +7,549 Whearty 2023No edit summary current
  • 18:4818:48, 20 August 2025 diff hist +33,718 N Fyfe 2024Created page with "Fyfe, Paul. Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities. Stanford UP, 2024. Wandering between two worlds, caught between the best and worst of times, the Victorians perceived themselves in the middle of an epochal transition, including to the ways they depicted and communicated these changes. The Victorian moment of new media is also our moment. The last few decades have brought a similar sense of living through an unprece- dented age of dig..." current

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  • 07:3607:36, 16 June 2025 diff hist +21,246 N Jepsen 2000Created page with "Jepsen, My Sisters Telegraphic Jepsen - My Sisters Telegraphic_ Women In Telegraph Office 1846-1950 (2001, Ohio University Press) In the mid-nineteenth century, women telegraph operators entered a challenging, competitive technological field in which they competed di- rectly with men, demanding, and occasionally getting, equal pay and some- times moving into management and senior technical positions. Women telegraphers constituted a subculture of technically educated..." current

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