The Internet has drastically altered the concept of publishing and the meaning of the word "document." The new medium has influenced the existence of an entire list of new publication formats, such as CD-ROM, commercial online databases, e-mail, FTP, and HTTP. Issues of authorship and chronology are discussed as the "whoness" and "whenness" of documents and publications. Publishing is now possible by accident, and to publish something is an instantaneous and effortless reality for anyone with access to the Internet. Gitelman's emphasis here is on positioning publishing on the Web as an event in "a continual, continuous present mat relies more on dates of access and experiences of 'WELCOME' than on any date of publication" (p. 145). Ways of saving culture as data, new media's purpose as reconstructive instruments of the "postindustrial and postmodem" (p. 155), and the advent of the electronic document call into question once again the everpresentness of media in the establishment of "order." While the question of media's role in the larger world order is not addressed in the book, Gitleman puts forth her account of how me history of media is very much involved in the "emerging 'order' of public life and public memory" (p. 155).