A Better Pencil : Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
by
Dennis Baron
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195388445
ISBN-13
9780195388442
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 29th, 2009
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
528 grams
Dimensions
24.60 x 16.60 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Language: history & general workslinguisticsSociolinguisticsLiteracyCommunication studies
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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.
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.
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