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• Mnemonics
  .... Today’s archive exists in the library or the personal computer, not in the depths of a well-ordered mind. ...d in the authority of the spoken word, and strove to represent and control the historically black-boxed functioning of human memory.
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• Teddy Ruxpin
  ...e]”), Teddy Ruxpin is an attempt at reconciling the estrangement between the sound and body of sonic recording (Gitelman, 173). [[Image:Teddy_Ruxpin.jpg ...orms, including Mother Goose and “Grubby,” a mythical caterpillar from the Ruxpin stories.''
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• Scopitone
  ...oped out of a "visual jukebox" called a Scopitone which was fashionable in the early 1960's. ...pop music in both France and the United States, the two main purveyors of the genre.
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• Liveness
  ...(of an event, performance, etc.) of being heard, watched, or broadcast at the time of occurrence.''</div> ...liveness (consider self check-out lines and the ease of ordering things on the internet), it is constructed, performance-oriented activities that are most
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• Polymath
  ...r Renaissance man was an expert at everything. He (as few women were given the chance to be educated to this degree) had total world knowledge and made di ...cused than the polymathic idea. This depth of knowledge has also destroyed the romantic notion of a cultural or literary [[canon]] by both extending and i
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• Broadcasting
  ...and self-promoting RCA's The Story of Television provides a background on the technical development of television broadcasting. (1956)]]] ...s from early United States naval reference to the "broadcast" of orders to the fleet (Hillard 3).
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• Textual Closure (Formal)
  ...ratextual frame such as the book cover, and its text cannot be modified on the discursive level of its original inscription. ...ncreasingly denaturalizing entrenched formal and textual assumptions about the printed word as it has evolved over it’s 500 year history since Gutenberg
  19 KB (2,914 words) - 10:32, 24 November 2010
• Colossus Computer
  ...ined secret for over 30 years. Unlike the majority of technological media, the Colossus Computer was built with a singular purpose in mind, achieved its g ...t of German code, is a position not seen easily today. Perhaps this is why the Colossus can be easily forgotten, but deserves acknowledgement and remembra
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• Mix tape
  ...it is, though, I know I'm getting a slice of someone's life. Cassettes are the only format that can give you that.'' ...herently personal, either kept for oneself, or given to a friend or lover. The term "mixtape", however, also had special meaning in hip hop culture, in wh
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• Stained Glass Window
  ...holastic philosophy of the thirteenth century and probably earlier. It was the most highly prized of medieval visual qualities. (Reyntiens 1990, 20)</bloc ...rteenth centuries and draw primarily from French ecclesial architecture of the time.
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• Sony Walkman
  [[File:Walkman-1979.gif|200px|thumb|right|The first Walkman model, TPS L2 released in 1978]] ...estingly, it was both design and marketing that seemed to most notably set the Walkman apart from previous iterations of personnel listening equipment.
  25 KB (3,817 words) - 13:33, 15 November 2010
• Bertillon System
  ...aces.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Classification guideline for facial features in the Bertillon system]] ...that believe that they have not said anything at all if they have not said the word ‘body’ a hundred times.” –Friedrich Kittler (2010, 148)
  32 KB (4,834 words) - 15:55, 15 November 2010
• Limewire
  ...n monthly users who downloaded over three billion songs per month. Through the years over 160 updated versions of LimeWire were released, most of which on ...troduced the "browse host" feature. This allowed the user to view all of the shared files on other user's computers, so that one could download several
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• Language of Flowers
  ...y, myth, reality, uses, and remediations of The Language of Flowers during the Victorian era in France, England and America. ...messages were supposedly derived from words that rhymed with the names of the objects. (Seaton 62)
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• Drive-In Theater
  ...ese theaters decreased greatly during the latter part of the 20th century, the drive-ins act collectively as a unique and significant artifact of America [[Image:First.jpg|350px|thumb|left|A photo of one of the first drive-in's built by Richard M. Hollingshead in Camden (eastcamdenword
  23 KB (3,776 words) - 16:21, 15 December 2010
• Passenger Dirigible
  ...the present as a form of brand presence and advertising, most notably with the Goodyear Corporation. ...saster of 1937, killing 35 people and effectively destroying confidence in the airship as a viable form of transportation.
  32 KB (5,101 words) - 19:56, 19 December 2010
• Dirty Media
  ...nerations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." –Marx, ''The Eighteenth Brumaire'' ...oduction. It will soon be obsolete, ready to be burned in order to harvest the precious metals inside. It will soon turn into toxic dust. This is a dossie
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• Postmortem Photography
  ...ally faded in popularity (both in America and Europe) in the early part of the 20th century. ...hers. Like portraiture, it was at first accomplished almost exclusively by the daguerreotype process.
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• Paperdolls
  ...painted in color. Others were printed in black and white, to be colored by the buyer. “(Ibid, 63) ...n the colorful and pristine condition that delighted young collectors when the dolls made their debut.” (Johnson, 2010: 20)
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