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20 August 2025
- 19:1519:15, 20 August 2025 diff hist +24,076 N Bryan-Wilson 2017 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..." 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 2025 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..." current
- 19:0719:07, 20 August 2025 diff hist +155 Main Page →Notes
- 19:0419:04, 20 August 2025 diff hist +5,689 Telegraphy No edit summary current
- 19:0019:00, 20 August 2025 diff hist +23,954 N Menke 2019 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..." 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 2014 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..." 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 1999 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..." 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 2012 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..." current
- 18:5318:53, 20 August 2025 diff hist +8,481 N Miller 2022 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..." 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 2023 No edit summary current
- 18:4818:48, 20 August 2025 diff hist +33,718 N Fyfe 2024 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..." current
19 August 2025
- 01:1801:18, 19 August 2025 diff hist +588 Craftwork No edit summary current
- 00:5600:56, 19 August 2025 diff hist +76 Bibliographic Imaginaries No edit summary current
- 00:5600:56, 19 August 2025 diff hist +58 Craftwork No edit summary
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18 August 2025
- 22:4222:42, 18 August 2025 diff hist +185 N Craftwork 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/"
- 22:3422:34, 18 August 2025 diff hist +23 Main Page →Projects
11 August 2025
- 15:5815:58, 11 August 2025 diff hist +107 N Whearty 2023 Created page with "Whearty, Bridget. ''Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor.'' Stanford University Press, 2023."
- 15:5615:56, 11 August 2025 diff hist +127 Main Page →Digital Humanities
- 15:5515:55, 11 August 2025 diff hist +7,640 N Brake 2001 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..." current
- 15:5415:54, 11 August 2025 diff hist +119 Main Page →Book History
18 June 2025
- 09:0809:08, 18 June 2025 diff hist +5 Logotypes →Tobitt combination types current
17 June 2025
- 08:5108:51, 17 June 2025 diff hist +1,818 Logotypes →Tobitt combination types
16 June 2025
- 07:3607:36, 16 June 2025 diff hist +21,246 N Jepsen 2000 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..." current
14 June 2025
- 14:4014:40, 14 June 2025 diff hist +2,270 Logotypes →Beniowski
- 14:3914:39, 14 June 2025 diff hist +786 Logotypes →The History and Advantages of Combination Type (1861)
- 13:5313:53, 14 June 2025 diff hist +1,477 Logotypes →Beniowski
- 13:5313:53, 14 June 2025 diff hist −1,419 Logotypes →Tobitt combination types
- 13:5213:52, 14 June 2025 diff hist +1,420 Logotypes →Beniowski
13 June 2025
- 18:0518:05, 13 June 2025 diff hist +1,538 Logotypes →Beniowski
- 15:1115:11, 13 June 2025 diff hist +6,156 Logotypes →Beniowski
2 June 2025
- 13:4513:45, 2 June 2025 diff hist +170 N Park, Jankowski and Jones 2011 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."
27 May 2025
16 May 2025
- 20:5720:57, 16 May 2025 diff hist +6,601 N Marvin 1990 Created page with "Marvin, ''When Old Technologies Were New'' If our own experience is unique in detail, its structure is characteristically modern. It starts with the invention of the telegraph, the first of the electrical communications machines, as significant a break with the past as print- ing before it. In a historical sense, the computer is no more than an instantaneous telegraph with a prodigious memory, and all the com- munications inventions in between have simply been elaborati..." current
- 20:5620:56, 16 May 2025 diff hist +3,530 Headrick 2000 No edit summary current
- 20:5520:55, 16 May 2025 diff hist +4,240 N Duguid 2015 Created page with "Duguid, "The Ageing of Information" …in the eighteenth century information deserves to be read as a keyword in discussions about relations between mind and world and between indi- vidual and state. Paradoxically, I conclude that reading information in eighteenth-century context reveals a trajectory similar to ideas of ‘‘informa- tion’’ in the twentieth—from youthful enthusiasm to aged suspicion and circumspection—thus making Foucauldian and Habermasian ana..." current
- 20:5320:53, 16 May 2025 diff hist +151 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 20:5220:52, 16 May 2025 diff hist +163 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 20:5120:51, 16 May 2025 diff hist +849 Main Page →Bibliography
- 20:5120:51, 16 May 2025 diff hist −847 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 20:5120:51, 16 May 2025 diff hist +241 Headrick 2000 No edit summary
- 20:4920:49, 16 May 2025 diff hist +362 N Headrick 2000 Created page with "Headrick, ''When Information Came of Age'' There have always been numerate people, for merchants and bureaucrats had been keeping accounts since ancient times. What was new in the Age of Reason and Revolution was the idea that numbers could be used to analyze something other than money, such as population, health and illness, nature, or even divine Providence"
- 20:4820:48, 16 May 2025 diff hist +10,682 N Beniger 1986 Created page with "Beniger, James. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard UP, 1986. Human society seems rather to evolve largely through changes so gradual as to be all but imperceptible, at least compared to the generational cycles of the individuals through whose lives they unfold. Second, contemporaries of major societal transformations are frequently distracted by events and trends more dramatic in immediate impact but less las..."
- 20:4720:47, 16 May 2025 diff hist +162 Main Page →History of Computing
- 20:4520:45, 16 May 2025 diff hist +58 Telegraphy No edit summary