Paper knowledge : toward a media history of documents /

"Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media th...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Gitelman, Lisa
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:	Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:	Communication and technology. Written communication > Social aspects. Communication and culture. Authors and readers. Comunicación y tecnología. Comunicación escrita > Aspectos sociales. Comunicación y cultura. Autores y lectores. Druckmedien. Dokument. Medientheorie.
Online Access:	Book review (H-Net)