Henry Lowood

Biographic Data

ID161858
NAMEHenry Lowood
GIVEN NAMESHenry
FAMILY NAMELowood
SIGNATURELOWOOD H
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
ORCID0000-0003-4360-5360
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX3

  • Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon

    Henry Lowood, Raiford GuinsBOOKDebugging Game History2016

    Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games

  • Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito

    Henry LowoodARTICLETechnology and Culture2016

    Reviewed by: Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito Henry Lowood (bio) Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory. By Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 297. $35. Historians of technology may not be called on to solve the problem of long-term digital preservation, but the solution (or lack thereof) surely will have an impact on their work. Historians of compu…

  • How I Ever Got to Teach a Course on McLuhan is Totally Amazing

    Open AccessHenry LowoodARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2014

  • The Machinima Reader

    Henry Lowood, Michael NitscheBOOKThe machinima reader2011

    The first critical overview of an emerging field, with contributions from both scholars and artist-practitioners. Over the last decade, machinima—the use of computer game engines to create movies—has emerged as a vibrant area in digital culture. Machinima as a filmmaking tool grew from the bottom up, driven by enthusiasts who taught themselves to deploy technologies from computer games to create animated films quickly and cheaply. The Machinima R…

  • Perfect Capture: Three Takes on Replay, Machinima and the History of Virtual Worlds

    Open AccessHenry LowoodARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2011

    The interactive, immersive and performative aspects of digital games and virtual worlds take the challenges faced by media archivists, curators and historians beyond software preservation to problems that demand new documentation and preservation strategies. The social and performative aspects of online worlds are forcing repositories to develop new strategies for preservation. Of the utmost importance is to preserve and archive practices and per…

  • A ‘Different Technical Approach’? Introduction to the Special Issue on Machinima

    Open AccessHenry LowoodARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2011

  • Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge (review)

    Open AccessHenry LowoodARTICLETechnology and Culture2008

    Reviewed by: Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge Henry Lowood (bio) Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge. By Jean-Noël Jeanneney , trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007 Pp. xvi+92. $18. On 7 October 2004, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held a press conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair to reveal their company's new service, called Google Print. Since the beginning of the new millennium,…

  • Guest Editors' Introduction

    Open AccessTanya Krzywinska, Henry LowoodARTICLEGames and Culture2006Cited by: 3

  • Storyline, Dance/Music, or PvP: Game Movies and Community Players in World of Warcraft

    Open AccessHenry LowoodARTICLEGames and Culture2006Cited by: 3References: 1

    Player-created game movies have been an outlet for creative expression by World of Warcraft (WoW) players since the beta version of the game. The proliferation of players, clans, Web sites, and community forums for creating, consuming, and commenting on WoW movies is remarkable. Linking multiplayer game communities and the making of animated movies is not unprecedented. It has been a characteristic of machinima for more than a decade. In this art…

  • Game Studies Now, History of Science Then

    Open AccessHenry LowoodARTICLEGames and Culture2006Cited by: 4References: 3

    This article compares the growth of history of science as a discipline to the situation faced by game studies today. What can researchers learn from the elevation of the history of science to an established discipline and profession that might help scholars understand the situation of game studies? And why are game studies today being talked about in ways similar to the rhetoric that accompanied the history of science in the 1960s and 1970s? The …

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1999)

    Henry LowoodARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

  • Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (review)

    Henry LowoodARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star shed new light on a variety of classification systems and practices. The thrust of this eclectic and wide-ranging study is twofold: (1) classification is a ubiquitous [End Page 392] human activity; and (2) the ramifications of classification both as part of the information infrastructure and as a social practice affecting human lives deserve much greater attention than they have previous…

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1998)

    Henry LowoodARTICLETechnology and Culture2000

    The following compilation is the thirty-sixth annual bibliography of current publications in the history of technology. Previous bibliographies in this series have appeared in Technology and Culture since 1964. The reader is also referred to the fifth publication of the SHOT Monograph Series, Eugene S. Ferguson's Bibliography of the History of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.: SHOT and MIT Press, 1968)

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1996-1997)

    Henry LowoodARTICLETechnology and Culture1999

    Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1996–1997) The following compilation is the thirty-fifth annual bibliography of current publications in the history of technology. Previous bibliographies in this series have appeared in Technology and Culture since 1964. The reader is also referred to the fifth publication of the SHOT Monograph Series, Eugene S. Ferguson’s Bibliography of the History of Technology (Cambridge, Mass., 1968). This …

  • Milestones in Colour Printing, 1457-1859 . Bamber Gascoigne

    Henry LowoodARTICLEIsis1998

  • The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War

    Henry Lowood, Dennis PiszkiewiczARTICLEGerman Studies Review1997

    Dreams and Illusions When Space Travel was Science Fiction The P. T. Barnum of Rockets The Baron's Son and the Soldier The Birth of the Third Reich and the Death of Conscience Rockets for the Reich Rocket City: The Secret Base at Peenemuende War Ascending Casualties of the Blitzkrieg The Architects of Destruction: The Men Who Built Armaments and Auschwitz The First Spaceship and the Fuehrer's Dream The Missile Arsenal: Demonstrations for Leaders …

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1995)

    Henry Lowood, Stephen H Cutcliffe et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

    Henry Lowood, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, , Patrick Harshbarger, Roger Launius, Ian Winship, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1995), Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, Supplement: Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1995) (1997), pp. 1-167

  • Die Illusion der Wunderwaffen: Die Rolle der Dusenflugzeuge und Flugabwehrraketen in der Rustungspolitik des Dritten Reiches

    Henry Lowood, Ralf SchabelARTICLEGerman Studies Review1996

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1994)

    Henry Lowood, Stephen H Cutcliffe et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

    Henry Lowood, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, , Roger Launius, Ian Winship, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1994), Technology and Culture, Vol. 37, Supplement: Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1994) (1996), pp. 1-183

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1993)

    Henry Lowood, Stephen H Cutcliffe et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    Henry Lowood, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, , Roger Launius, Ian Winship, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1993), Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, Supplement: Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1993) (1995), pp. 1-146

  • Patriotism, Profit, and the Promotion of Science in the German Enlightenment: The Economic and Scientific Societies, 1760-1815

    Mary Lindemann, Henry Lowood et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1994

  • Literary Technology and Typographic Culture: The Instrument of Print in Early Modern Science

    Henry Lowood, Henry E Lowood et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Science1994Cited by: 3References: 3

    Authors and printers together created the New Book of Nature—the printed literature of science—in early modern Europe. Careful attention has been given in recent years to the development of literary and rhetorical techniques in science. This article proposes that these developments were linked to printing technology and the typographic culture that produced the early printed book of science. We focus on several cases in which the roles of author …

  • Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1992)

    Henry Lowood, Judith Adams et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    Henry Lowood, Judith A. Adams, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, , Ian Winship, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1992), Technology and Culture, Vol. 35, Supplement: Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1992) (1994), pp. 1-150

  • Books and Manuscripts of the Bakken . Judith A. Overmier, John Edward Senior

    Henry LowoodARTICLEIsis1993

  • Enlightenment Crossings: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses; Anthropological

    Henry Lowood, G S RousseauARTICLEThe American Historical Review1993Cited by: 1