The Lost Generation?: A
Media Archaeology of the
E-Book, 1929–2006
Simon Rowberry
University of Stirling
sr56@stir.ac.uk @sprowberry

Four media archaeological
excavations
1. Imaginary
2. Photographic
3. Continuous paper
4. Hacking

1. Imaginary

Motorola
1996

Star Trek:
TNG 1996

Haruki Tsuchiya 1992

Emilio A. Fernandez 1989

David P.
Rubincam 1979

2. Photographic

Bush 1945

Brown
1929

Microform c.1850

3. Continuous
Paper

4. Hacking

The Lost Generation?: A
Media Archaeology of the
E-Book, 1929–2006
Simon Rowberry
University of Stirling
sr56@stir.ac.uk @sprowberry