Paper Knowledge by Lisa Gitelman

 My search for a book began at Amazon.com where I started to search the words information, media, and technology. I found a couple books that other students in the discussion had already selected for their book, but I did come across this book, “Paper Knowledge,” and two other candidates that were, “Graphesis,” and, “Hypercities.” After searching these books in the databases of WorldCat, Google Books, and Library Thing, it was clear that the book, “Paper Knowledge,” by Lisa Gitelman was the book that was most relevant to what we have learned in class so far, and the information society in general. I w

as interested in this book because it seems that it kind of goes into a little bit of a history of the older technologies, like from the print culture we learned about, and how they are becoming irrelevant, and it also starts to introduce the newest technologies and how they are impacting the information society. After research, the other two candidates didn’t seem to relate to the class as much as Lisa Gitelman’s book. “Graphesis,” focused more on the graphics of the actual screen to which users are using to read and get info from, rather in books in today’s society. My first paper was about this kind of information buy this book seemed to focus more on the actual graphics and not the effects of our society using screens more today. “Hypercities,” mentions how cities are overlaid with networks and information in today’s society. Although the book says it doesn’t talk about mapping in the literal sense, it still seemed to be a little too much geography based and not as focused on the information society. Although, “Paper Knowledge,” was the least popular out of all the books on Library Thing, it still seemed the most interesting to me and relevant to the class.