Boast Robin (17 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

hardcover. Condition: Good. EX LIBRARY BOOK.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: New. We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of our contemporary mobile-obsessed, information-heavy, media-saturated world, but it is usually regarded - if it is thought of at all - as something inaccessible, virtual or ephemeral, hidden deep within the workings of our computers, tablets and smartphones. It is surprising that, despite the profusion of books on the history of computers and computing, little has been written about what makes them possible. So what exactly is 'the digital'? Where did it come from? What do we actually know about it? Robin Boast tackles these fundamental questions in The Machine in the Ghost - and uncovers some very surprising answers.The book navigates the history of digitality, from the earliest use of digital encoding in a French telegraph invented in 1874, to the first electronic computers; the earliest uses within graphics and infor­mation systems in the 1950s; our interactions with computers through punch cards and program­ming languages; and the rise of digital media in the 1970s. Via these various, sometimes unanticipated historical routes, Boast reveals the foundations of digitality, our contemporary digital media, as something very real - the digital Machine in the virtual Ghost.…

Condition: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9781780237398,224pp.

Condition: New. The book navigates the history of digitality, from the earliest use of digital encoding in a French telegraph invented in 1874, to the first electronic computers. Num Pages: 23 black and white. BIC Classification: UD; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398. . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . …

Condition: New. The book navigates the history of digitality, from the earliest use of digital encoding in a French telegraph invented in 1874, to the first electronic computers. Num Pages: 23 black and white. BIC Classification: UD; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398. . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A museum exhibition catalogue of the photographic collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, spanning the 1860s-1930s - of interest to readers of historical anthropological photography and Cambridge museum collections. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, 2001; no later printings stated. Paperback booklet, illustrated with historical black-and-white photographs. Front cover: leogriff statue at Amarapura, Burma (I.H.N. Evans, 1924). Back cover: full-page "Portrait of Lizzie," a 1914 Rivers Collection quarter-plate glass negative from Simbo, Solomon Islands. Previous owner's inscription in pencil or light ink at the top left of the inside front cover (blank verso of the front wrapper). Very Good.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. [iv], 44 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, beige & white lettering to spine, xxxviii + (4) + 308pp, VG- (covers in fully adhesive plastic wrap, moderate to heavy creasing to spine & covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps).

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - We live in a digital age, buy and sell in a digital economy, and consume--oh do we consume--digital media. The digital lies at the heart of our contemporary, information-heavy, media-saturated lives, and although we may talk about the digital as a cultural phenomenon, the thing itself--digitality--is often hidden to us, a technology that someone else has invented and that lives buried inside our computers, tablets, and smartphones. In this book, Robin Boast follows the video streams and social media posts to their headwaters in order to ask: What, exactly, is the digital Boast tackles this fundamental question by exploring the origins of the digital and showing how digital technology works. He goes back to 1874, when a French telegraph engineer, Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, invented the first means of digital communication, the Baudot code. From this simple 5-bit code, Boast takes us to the first electronic computers, to the earliest uses of graphics and information systems in the 1950s, our interactions with computers through punch cards and programming languages, and the rise of digital media in the 1970s.Via various and sometimes unanticipated historical routes, he reveals the foundations of digitality and how it has flourished in today's explosion of technologies and the forms of communication and media they enable, making real the often intangible force that guides so much of our lives. …

Gebunden. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorRobin Boast is professor of cultural information science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published widely in the field of information and the culture of the digital. Klapp.

Hardback. Condition: New. We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of our contemporary mobile-obsessed, information-heavy, media-saturated world, but it is usually regarded - if it is thought of at all - as something inaccessible, virtual or ephemeral, hidden deep within the workings of our computers, tablets and smartphones. It is surprising that, despite the profusion of books on the history of computers and computing, little has been written about what makes them possible. So what exactly is 'the digital'? Where did it come from? What do we actually know about it? Robin Boast tackles these fundamental questions in The Machine in the Ghost - and uncovers some very surprising answers.The book navigates the history of digitality, from the earliest use of digital encoding in a French telegraph invented in 1874, to the first electronic computers; the earliest uses within graphics and infor­mation systems in the 1950s; our interactions with computers through punch cards and program­ming languages; and the rise of digital media in the 1970s. Via these various, sometimes unanticipated historical routes, Boast reveals the foundations of digitality, our contemporary digital media, as something very real - the digital Machine in the virtual Ghost.…