A Better Pencil
Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 October 2009
- Number of Volumes BB
- ISBN 9780195388442
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 152x236x22 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Long description:
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 useful counter-argument to the gloomy techno-pessimists,
Table of Contents:
Preface: Technologies of the Word
Introduction
TeknoFear
Thoreau's Pencil
National Handwriting Day
Writing on Clay
When WordStar Was King
Trusting the Text
Writing on Screen
Everyone's an Author
A Space of One's Own
The Dark Side of the Web
From Pixels to Pencils
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