Numbered Lives - Life and Death in Quantum Media Wernimont Jacqueline Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Dartmouth CollegePevná vazba
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.Anglo-American culture has used media…
Specifikacia Numbered Lives - Life and Death in Quantum Media Wernimont Jacqueline Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Dartmouth CollegePevná vazba
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book, Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist media history that maps connections not only