Markus Krajewski: 5 books

Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper...

Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that,...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture. We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...

A cutting†‘edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?†‹ Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp,...

Mit Lesen, Schreiben, Denken zur erfolgreichen Abschlussarbeit Dieses Buch bietet eine Anleitung zum Verfassen einer wissenschaftlichen Abschlussarbeit, sei es eine grundständige Bachelor-, eine fortgeschrittene Master- oder eine materialintensivere Doktorarbeit. Es ist geschrieben für Personen,...