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2. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination ( Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008 );
3. Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture ( Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006 ).
4. See Thomas Haigh, ‘Protocols for profit: Web and e-mail technologies as product and infrastructure’, in The Internet and American Business, ed. William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008 ), pp. 105–58.
5. See Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf (New York: Vintage, 1999), esp. his chapter ‘Studying studies’, pp. 100–28;