"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph…
An analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as the subjects of history, using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.