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Autore: | Baron Dennis E |
Titolo: | A better pencil : readers, writers, and the digital revolution / / Dennis Baron |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina: | 302.2/244 |
Soggetto topico: | Writing - Materials and instruments - History |
Written communication - Technological innovations | |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2009. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface: Technologies of the Word; 1. Writing It Down; 2. TeknoFear; 3. Thoreau's Pencil; 4. National Handwriting Day; 5. Writing on Clay; 6. When WordStar Was King; 7. Trusting the Text; 8. Writing on Screen; 9. Everyone's an Author; 10. A Space of One's Own; 11. The Dark Side of the Web; 12. From Pencils to Pixels; Works Cited; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | '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 & how we deploy them to replicate the old ways of doing things while actively generating new modes of mass expression. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A better pencil |
ISBN: | 0-19-772123-0 |
1-282-32840-9 | |
9786612328404 | |
0-19-973677-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807144903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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