A Better Pencil

Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution

Dennis Baron (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538844-2 (ISBN)

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A Better Pencil examines the digital revolution in light of the history of writing technology. Baron looks at how we love, fear, actually use our writing machines-not just computers but typewriters, pencils, and clay tablets-how we deploy them to replicate the old ways of doing things while actively generating new modes of mass expression; how we learn to trust new technology and the new and strange sorts of texts that it produces; hwo we expand the notion of who can write and who can't; and how we free our readers and writers while at the same time trying to regulate their activities.

Dennis Baron is Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Preface: Technologies of the Word ; Introduction ; 1. TeknoFear ; 2. Thoreau's Pencil ; 3. National Handwriting Day ; 4. Writing on Clay ; 5. When WordStar Was King ; 6. Trusting the Text ; 7. Writing on Screen ; 8. Everyone's an Author ; 9. A Space of One's Own ; 10. The Dark Side of the Web ; 11. From Pixels to Pencils ; Works Cited

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2009
Zusatzinfo	numerous halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 243 mm
Gewicht	527 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-538844-5 / 0195388445
ISBN-13	978-0-19-538844-2 / 9780195388442
Zustand	Neuware