A Better Pencil

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1. - TeknoFear2. - Thoreau's Pencil3. - National Handwriting Day4. - Writing on Clay5. - When WordStar Was King6. - Trusting the Text7. - Writing on Screen8. - Everyone's an Author9. - A Space of One's Own10. - The Dark Side of the Web11. - From Pixels to Pencils

AUTORE

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

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780195388442
• Dimensioni: 152 x 22.9 x 236 mm Ø 530 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 280