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"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph to unfamiliar curiosities such as the physiognotrace and the zograscope. Moving beyond the story of technological innovation, the book considers emergent media as sites of ongoing cultural exchange. It considers how habits and structures of communication can frame a collective sense of public and private and how they inform our apprehensions of the "real.""--Jacket

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I Intellectual Histories of the Information Age -- Imperial Attractions: Benjamin Franklin's New Experiments of 1751 -- From Heat Engines to Digital Printouts: Machine Models of the Body from the Victorian Era to the Human Genome Project -- The Erasure and Construction of History for the Information Age: Positivism and Its Critics -- PART II Visual Culture, Subjectivity, and the Education of the Senses -- More than the Movies: A History of Somatic Visual Culture through Hale's Tours, imax, and Motion Simulation Rides -- Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the United States -- The Convergence of the Pentagon and Hollywood: The Next Generation of Military Training Simulations -- PART III Materiality, Time, and the Reproduction of Sound and Motion -- Helmholtz, Edison, and Sound History -- Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, The Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls -- Still/Moving: Digital Imaging and Medical Hermeneutics -- PART IV Digital Aesthetics, Social Texts, and Art Objects -- Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Subjects: Metaphoric Networks in New Media -- Electronic Literature: Discourses, Communities, Traditions -- Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index