A Better Pencil - Readers, Writers, and the Digitial Revolution

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 notionof 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 notionof 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.

Product details

• Authors: Baron, Dennis Baron, Dennis (Professor of English and Linguistics Baron, Dennis E. Baron, Baron Dennis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780195388442
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538844-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, COMPUTERS / General, Literacy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, HOUSE & HOME / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Sociolinguistics, Digital lifestyle, Communication Studies, Language: history & general works, Social and cultural history, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, Language: history and general works, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies