Sign Here: Handwriting in the Age of New Media
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Will handwriting survive the evolution of digital media? Sign Here explores the changing role of manual writing in a world of e-mail, text messaging, and other digital technology. In a series of fascinating essays, media scholars examine the changing concepts of originality, authenticity, and uniqueness—both culturally and legally—as digital media continue to rapidly expand.
Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction:IntroductionJosé van Dijck and Sonja Neef Section One: Authentic Copies Authentic Events:The Diaries of Anne Frank and the Alleged Diaries of Adolf Hitler The Authority of Drawing:Hand, Authenticity, and AuthorshipMichael Wetzel Authenticity and Objectivity in Scientific Communication:Implications of Digital MediaJohn Mackenzie Owen Authenticity in Bits and BytesHannelore Dekeyser Section Two: Re-Mediating Handwriting Signature Identity Content:Handwriting in an Age of Digital RemediationRichard Grusin Writing the Self:Of Diaries and WeblogsJosé van Dijck Hands on the Document:Arnold Dreyblatt's T ArchiveArnold Dreyblatt and Jeffrey Wallen Faithfully Submitted:The Logic of the Signature in Marcel Proust's A la recherche Mieke Bal (Hand)writing Film History:Saul Bass Draws Martin Scorsese in a Title Sequence and Writes his Name UnderneathRembert Hüser Section Three: Handwriting and (Dis-) Embodiment Writing on Archiving MachinesEric Ketelaar Blood Samples and Fingerprint Files:Blood as Artificial Matter, Artistic Material, and Means of Signature Thomas Fechner-Smarsly Writing Over the Body, Writing With the BodyOn Shirin Neshat's Women of AllahSeriesBegüm Özden Firat Perfor/m/ative Writing:Tattoo, Mark, SignatureSonja Neef ContributorsIllustration AcknowledgementIndex
