Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of

In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, on the one hand, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, on the other hand to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices? As her work reveals, the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in much contemporary media theory.

List of Figures	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Letter
"The Concious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History	p. 27
"The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice	p. 51
"The ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis	p. 74
The Postcard
"The self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History	p. 93
"A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence	p. 112
Electronic Mail
A Brief History of Electronic Mail	p. 137
"In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 189
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 257
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