Dennis Baron

Better Pencil

Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective, describing how the digital revolution influences our reading and writing practices, and how the latest technologies differ from what came before.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780199914005
• ISBN-10: 0199914001
• Artikelnr.: 36125228

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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