In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous...
Providing an analysis of the ways in which new media is experienced and studied, this book points toward similarities that underlie the cultural definition of records at the end of the 19th century, and the definition of documents at the end of the 20th.