Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents explores the history and significance of documents as media. Lisa Gitelman examines paper’s role in storing, transmitting, and organizing knowledge, offering a focused study of documentary practices and the ways information takes material form.
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Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents is a study of documents and their role as media.
Lisa Gitelman considers how paper supports the storage and transmission of knowledge.
The book approaches documents through a media-historical perspective, focusing on their material and communicative functions.
Its subject connects documentary practices with broader questions about how information is organized, preserved, and shared.
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