Rubbing Readers the Wrong Way? Materiality and the Case of Ink Rub-Off

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These include Lisa Gitelman, “Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, the Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls,” in Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture, ed. Lauren Rabinovitz (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004); Paul M. Leonardi, “Digital Materiality? How Artifacts without Matter, Matter,” First Monday 15, no. 6 (2010), http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3036/2567; Daniel Miller, Materiality (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005); and T. J. Pinch and Richard Swedberg, Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).

Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks (New York: Routledge, 2013), 7; Jonathan Sterne, “What Do We Want?” “Materiality!” “When Do We Want It?” “Now!,” in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, ed. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014), 128. Also see Diana H. Coole and Samantha Frost, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).

Bruno Latour, “Technology Is Society Made Durable,” in A Sociology of Monsters? Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, Sociological Review Monograph, ed. John Law (London: Routledge, 1991), 103–131.

Thierry Bardini, Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2000); Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014); Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 1999); and Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 1999).

See, for example, N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Paul Dourish, Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001); Ken Hillis, Digital Sensations Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and Anna Munster, Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics (Dartmouth: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, 2006).

Finn Brunton and Gabriella Coleman, “Closer to the Metal,” in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, ed. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski and Kirsten A. Foot (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014), 77.

Mary Gray, quoted in C. W. Anderson and Juliette De Maeyer, “Introduction: Objects of Journalism and the News,” Journalism 16, no. 1 (2015): 3–9, 4.

Packer and Wiley, Communication Matters, 7.

Anderson and De Maeyer, “Introduction,” 6.

Ibid., 4.

Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, 6.

Ignacio Siles and Pablo Boczkowski, “At the Intersection of Content and Materiality: A Texto-Material Perspective on the Use of Media Technologies,” Communication Theory 22, no. 3 (2012): 227–249. Also see Sonia Livingstone, “On the Material and the Symbolic: Silverstone's Double Articulation of Research Traditions in New Media Studies,” New Media and Society 9, no. 1 (2007): 16–24.

Pablo J. Boczkowski, “The Material Turn in the Study of Journalism: Some Hopeful and Cautionary Remarks from an Early Explorer,” Journalism 16, no. 1 (2015): 65–68.

Pablo J. Bockzowski and Ignacio Siles, “Steps toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content,” in Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, ed. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014), 53–76.

Lisa Gitelman, “Materiality Has Always Been in Play: An Interview with N. Katherine Hayles,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 2 (2010), http://www.uiowa.edu/∼ijcs/mediation/hayles.htm.

Ibid.

Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007).

Doug Bates, “Seeking Ink Rub-Off Relief,” Eugene (OR) Register-Guard, March 15, 1987.

Eliza Leslie, Miss Leslie's Behavior Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; Introductions; Entree to Society; Shopping; Conduct in the Street; at Places of Amusement; in Traveling; at the Table, Either at Home, in Company, or at Hotels; Deportment in Gentlemen's Society; Lips; Complexion; Teeth; Hands, the Hair; Etc., Etc. (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1839).

Bates, “Seeking Ink Rub-Off.”

Albert Scardino, “A New Way to Print News,” New York Times, November 23, 1985.

Carl E. Lindstrom, The Fading American Newspaper (Garden City: Doubleday, 1960), 109.

Jody Powell, “The Real Dirty News: Rub-Off Creates Ink-Stained Wretches,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 30, 1986.

Eleanor Johnson Tracy, “At Last, a Clean Read,” Fortune Magazine, March 17, 1986, accessed September 1, 2014, http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/17/67261/index.htm.

Shelby Siems, “Newspapers Get on Board with Soybean Oil Inks,” Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1992, http://www.csmonitor.com/1992/0610/10132.html.

Richard Orr, “Versatile Soybeans May Turn Up in Print,” Chicago Tribune, August 29, 1987.

Scardino, “A New Way to Print,” 35.

Alex S. Jones, “The Media Business; The New Newspaper War: Flexo vs. Offset,” New York Times, July 24, 1989.

Tracy, “At Last, a Clean Read”; “Newest Newspaper Ink Won't Smudge on Fingers,” Spokesman-Review, March 3, 1986; Perry White, “Paper to Clean Up Act; Newer Ink Less Messy,” The Oklahoman, January 20, 1985; and David Climenhaga, “With Smudgeless Ink, You Could Read Your Paper with Your Clothes On,” Globe and Mail, April 16, 1986.

Powell, “The Real Dirty News.”

“All the Ink That's Fit to Print,” Newsweek, December 15, 1991, accessed September 15, 2014, http://www.newsweek.com/all-ink-thats-fit-print-200830.

“Out, Out, Damned Spot!” Time, December 16, 1991, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974444,00.html; Scardino, “A New Way to Print,” 35.

“All the Ink That's Fit to Print.”

Samuel F. Pickering, May Days (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988), 22.

Al Neuharth, “Can ‘Old’ Newspapers Remain Relevant?,” USA Today, September 14, 2012, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-09-13/anniversary-usatoday-al-neuharth/57777972/1.

Powell, “The Real Dirty News.”

Kevin G. Barnhurst, “The Great American Newspaper,” American Scholar 60 (Winter 1991): 106–112, 108.

Jerry Bertelson, “Ah, the Register…,” Des Moines (IA) Register, May 21, 2014, http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/05/22/instant-news-register/9401421/.

“Complaints and Comments,” Observer-Reporter (Washington, PA), August 13, 2007, http://www.o-ronline.net/weblog/grump/2007/08/complaints-and-comments.html.

Alan Janesch and Nichola Gutgold, “How Will Newspapers Survive in Internet Age?,” Morning Call (Allentown, PA), April 14, 2008, http://articles.mcall.com/2008-04-14/opinion/4049019_1_newspaper-junkies-newspaper-production-online-editions.

“#154 Reading an Actual Newspaper,” 1,000 Awesome Things, September 19, 2011, accessed October 1, 2014, http://1000awesomethings.com/2011/09/19/154-reading-an-actual-newspaper/.

Bockzowski and Siles, “Steps toward Cosmopolitanism,” 53–76.

Amber Roessner, “Revisiting a Cultural Approach to Media History,” American Journalism 30, no. 2 (2013): 263–267, 266.