Letters, Postcards, Email Technologies of

In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History
"The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice
"The ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis
"The Self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History
"A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence
A Brief History of Electronic Mail
"In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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