"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--
"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--
Karin Wagner is Professor in Art History and Visual Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Researching photography, digital culture, design, and visual communication, she has published articles in Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Visual Communication, Museum & Society, and Archival Science.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction 1 2 Computer Pictures Before Computer Graphics: The Practice of ASCII Art 27 3 Domesticated Aliens: Machine-Readable Typefaces in Popular Culture and Beyond 75 4 The Multisensory Dot Matrix Printer 117 5 Type Hate and the Discourse of Comic Sans 161 6 Common Themes and Concluding Remarks 199 Notes 209 Index 243
Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction 1 2 Computer Pictures Before Computer Graphics: The Practice of ASCII Art 27 3 Domesticated Aliens: Machine-Readable Typefaces in Popular Culture and Beyond 75 4 The Multisensory Dot Matrix Printer 117 5 Type Hate and the Discourse of Comic Sans 161 6 Common Themes and Concluding Remarks 199 Notes 209 Index 243
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