About the Author

Lisa Gitelman is Associate Professor and Director, Program in Media Studies, at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey B. Pingree) of New Media, 1740-1915 (MIT Press, 2003) and the author of Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines.

Reviews

"Gitelman's "Always Already New" artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced 'new media.' In this beautifully written book, she brings 'pastness' into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere."--Thom Swiss, interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of "New Media Poetics"

"Lisa Gitelman is a brilliant scholar.... [She] uses new historicist, philosophical, and technological observations to make a compelling case."-- M. E. DiPaulo, "Choice"

"Smart and engaging..... This book is an invitation to do media history in the archives; at the same time, it keeps reminding us that the archives ain't the archives anymore and that any historical account is dependent on the media forms it uses."-- John Nerone, "Journal of American History"

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& quot; Gitelman's Always Already New artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced 'new media.' In this beautifully written book, she brings 'pastness' into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere.& quot; -- Thom Swiss, interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of New Media Poetics

" Gitelman's "Always Already New" artfully reconfigures our critical thinking about the material, social, and institutional contexts that have produced 'new media.' In this beautifully written book, she brings 'pastness' into an enlightening conversation with our current, complex engagement with the digital datasphere." --Thom Swiss, interdisciplinary scholar, University of Minnesota, coeditor of "New Media Poetics"