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Letters, Postcards, Email : Technologies of Presence.

Moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Milne, Esther
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Letter; 1 "The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History; 2 "The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice; 3 "The ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis; Part II The Postcard; 4 "The self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History; 5 "A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence; Part III Electronic Mail.
  • 6 A Brief History of Electronic Mail7 "In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.