Rewriting history: the information age and the knowable past
Does history any longer have meaning in the information age? Baudrillard has described history as ‘our lost referential, that is to say our myth’. History seems to slip away in the precession of simulacra accompanying mass media and digital computing: ever-present if inauthentic versions of the past...
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Palgrave MacMillan
2011
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3819/1/TREDINNICK-ChapterFinal.pdf |