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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction. Reading the Little Database
  9. 1. Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com
  10. Interlude 1. EXE TXT
  11. 2. Distributing Services: Periodical Preservation and Eclipse
  12. Interlude 2. L≠A≠N≠G≠U≠A≠G≠E
  13. 3. Live Vinyl MP3: Echo Chambers among the Little Databases
  14. Interlude 3. Also This: No Title
  15. 4. Dropping the Frame: From Film to Database
  16. Interlude 4. Flash Artifacts
  17. Epilogue. The EPC: On the Persistence of Obsolescent Networks
  18. Acknowledgments.zip
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. Series List Continued (2 of 2)
  22. Author Biography

Electronic Mediations

Series Editors: N. Katherine Hayles, Peter Krapp, Rita Raley, and Samuel Weber

Founding Editor: Mark Poster

  1. The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats

    Daniel Scott Snelson

  2. Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation

    Marina Hassapopoulou

  3. The Digital and Its Discontents

    Aden Evens

  4. The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value

    Seb Franklin

  5. Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America

    Clare Birchall

  6. Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common

    Harmony Bench

  7. Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games

    Alenda Y. Chang

  8. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art

    James J. Hodge

  9. Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed

    Fenwick McKelvey

  10. What Is Information?

    Peter Janich, Eric Hayot, and Lea Pao

  11. Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar

    Justin Joque

  12. Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

    Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux

  13. The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction

    Hugo Gernsback, edited by Grant Wythoff

  14. The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, and Tamar Tembeck, Editors

  15. Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction

    Timothy J. Welsh

  16. Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet

    Jennifer Gabrys

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and the UCLA Library.

Excerpts from “The Defective Record” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909–1939, copyright 1938 by New Directions, reprinted by permission of New Directions and Carcanet Press. Excerpts from Stan VanDerBeek, Poemfield #2, copyright 1971 Estate of Stan VanDerBeek.

A portion of chapter 1 was previously published in a different form in “EXE TXT: Textwarez & Deformance,” in Code und Konzept: Literatur und das Digitale, ed. Hannes Bajohr (Berlin: Frohmann), copyright 2016 by Daniel Scott Snelson. A portion of chapter 3 was previously published in a different form in “Live Vinyl MP3: Mutant Sounds, PennSound, UbuWeb, SpokenWeb,” Amodern 4: The Poetry Series, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, copyright 2015 by Daniel Scott Snelson. A portion of chapter 4 was previously published in “Incredible Machines: Following People Like Us into the Database,” Avant, June 4, 2014.

Copyright 2025 Daniel Scott Snelson. The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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