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Zusatztext A useful counter-argument to the gloomy techno-pessimists, Informationen zum Autor Dennis Baron is Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
