Esther Milne

Letters, Postcards, Email

Technologies of Presence

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Produktbeschreibung

In this original study, Milne 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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415993289
• ISBN-10: 0415993288
• Artikelnr.: 23570311

Autorenporträt

Esther Milne is Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 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 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 6: A Brief History of Electronic Mail 7: "In my
sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group
Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index