A Better Pencil
Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:29th Oct '09
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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 useful counter-argument to the gloomy techno-pessimists, * Henry Farrell, Times Higher Education *
ISBN: 9780195388442
Dimensions: 243mm x 165mm x 22mm
Weight: 527g
280 pages