A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Hardback)
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Short Description for A Better Pencil 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 stran...
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 29 October 2009
- Format: Hardback 278 pages
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- Categories: Language: History & General Works | Linguistics | Literacy | Communication Studies | Popular Culture | Impact Of Science & Technology On Society | History Of Engineering & Technology
- ISBN 13: 9780195388442 ISBN 10: 0195388445
- Sales rank: 397,394
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Full description for A Better Pencil
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.
