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- 20:08, 28 August 2025 Kahan 2000 (hist | edit) [13,704 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Kahan, Basil. ''Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine.'' Oak Knoll Press, 2000.")
- 00:01, 28 August 2025 Thoburn 2016 (hist | edit) [10,609 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Thoburn, Nicholas. ''Anti-Book'' (2016) Exploiting this function, Amazon Noir comprised a software script that would obtain a book’s entire text via repeated searches, substituting the last words of one search for the first words of the next. x Amazon Noir served to articulate the inequity of the privatization of the nonscarce resource of digital text, while taking advantage of the means by which the technological affordances of digital text are mobilized to excite...")
- 23:59, 27 August 2025 McIlwain 2020 (hist | edit) [13,136 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 23:37, 27 August 2025 Poovey 2008 (hist | edit) [10,685 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 23:33, 27 August 2025 Hacking 1990 (hist | edit) [31,261 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 19:15, 20 August 2025 Bryan-Wilson 2017 (hist | edit) [24,076 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 19:09, 20 August 2025 Graziano 2025 (hist | edit) [10,245 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 19:00, 20 August 2025 Menke 2019 (hist | edit) [23,954 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 18:59, 20 August 2025 Krajewski 2014 (hist | edit) [16,184 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 18:57, 20 August 2025 Abbate 1999 (hist | edit) [3,219 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 18:55, 20 August 2025 Abbate 2012 (hist | edit) [29,983 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 18:53, 20 August 2025 Miller 2022 (hist | edit) [8,481 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 18:48, 20 August 2025 Fyfe 2024 (hist | edit) [33,718 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 22:42, 18 August 2025 Craftwork (hist | edit) [1,539 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Artists/craftworkers * Nancy Smith https://somequietfuture.com/ -- also article in dh+lib: https://dhandlib.org/emotional-bookmarks-data-physicalization-and-the-language-of-literature/")
- 15:58, 11 August 2025 Whearty 2023 (hist | edit) [7,656 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Whearty, Bridget. ''Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor.'' Stanford University Press, 2023.")
- 15:55, 11 August 2025 Brake 2001 (hist | edit) [7,640 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Brake, Laurel. ''Print in Transition, 1850-1910: Studies in Media and Book History.'' Palgrave, 2001. "By 1891 then, the conceptual separation of literature from journalism is clear on both sides, not only from the newspaper press (which had become more inclusive of literary news and reviews) but within the ranks of the army of part-time writers for the periodical press whom Shand called 'the brilliant half-amateurs' ([Shand] 1878: 650). Gosse was one of these, and Geo...")
- 07:36, 16 June 2025 Jepsen 2000 (hist | edit) [21,246 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created 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...")
- 13:45, 2 June 2025 Park, Jankowski and Jones 2011 (hist | edit) [1,568 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Park, David W., Nicholas W. Jankowski, and Steve Jones, eds. ''The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness.'' Peter Lang, 2011.")