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 between past and present-day "quantum media" but between media tracking and long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues, counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin -- one that has always been used to render statistics of life and death more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our digital culture and inheritance. -- Provided by publisher

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Jacqueline Wernimont

AAAI Press

Media origins, Cambridge, Mass, London, United States, 2018

Media origins, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2018

MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, US, 2019

Jan 01, 2019

Source title: Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (Media Origins)

Указ.: с. 211-221
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Introduction : Methods For This History Of Quantum Media -- Part I. Counting Death. Counting The Dead -- We Don't Do Body Counts -- Part Ii. Counting Life. Every Step You Take -- From Surveying Land To Surveying Man -- Conclusion : Matrix Methods For Media. Jacqueline Wernimont. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 165-210) And Index.

Жаклин Вернимонт-антирасистский, феминистский ученый, работающий в направлении большей справедливости в цифровых культурах. Она пишет о долгой истории средств массовой информации и технологий – особенно тех, которые считаются и поминаются-и запутанности с архивами и... Ещё Читать

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