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 …

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs
to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files …

1. See Pingree and Gitelman (2003) for more on this perspective.“Identity crisis” is Altman's
(2004) wording, while “transition” is the term favored at MIT and The MIT Press. See Uricchio …

James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century
newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period …

The scholarly field of the digital humanities has recently expanded and integrated its
fundamental concepts, historical coverage, relationship to social experience, scale of …

Rethinking Art's Histories aims to open out art history from its most basic structures by
foregrounding work that challenges the conventional periodisation and geographical …

Digital and textual objects are coming under a new kind of scrutiny as scholars are
becoming more interested in physical artifacts and their relation to their social and cultural …

This essay emerges from the recent debates in editorial theory and, on the practical level,
from a project for producing electronic scholarly editions. It reflects on the nature of text …

This article explores the relationship between the forms of representation and the modes of
production of African online writing, rendering visible an appreciation of the digital contexts …

Digital developments have extended the range of text objects we can reproduce and
investigate critically. Should all future texts be produced in digital or online form, or does …