Media as Historical Subjects Lisa Gitelman

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Reference¶

Gitelman, Lisa. 2006. “Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects,” (MIT Press).

Introduction¶

• Media history will cover the inventors and machines, social practices, development of ideas
• Media in this sense is a very broad term that identifies technologies,

Conclusion¶

• Media history is formed through what people in the disciplinary practice are spending their time doing
  • What questions are important to asking?
  • or worth asking at all
• History that has to do with the history of the WWW (World Wide Web)
  • as well as applications of the web
  • this history includes the people, methods and technologies necessary
• Example used showing how teaching has changed with technology (slides from blackboard)

Thoughts: Teaching and Technology