Changing our textual minds : towards a digital order of knowledge / Adriaan Van Der Weel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weel, Adriaan van der.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic information resources--Social aspects.

Electronic information resources.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

vii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester Univ. Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Text has always boon the chief vehicle for the inscription and dissemination of knowledge and culture. Centuries of reading and writing practice have made us homo typoqraphicus. Our entire way of disseminating knowledge and culture is firmly based on print culture. As more and more of our textual communication moves into the digital realm we have reached a crucial moment in the history of textual transmission.

In many respects digital text looks deceptively like print. Bui beneath the surface of the screen, digital textualily obeys very different rules from printed text. The digital textual universe offers a wealth of new and exciting possibilities - but it also sets new rules for the writer's and reader's engagemen with text. The need to come to grips with the shift to digital textuality in the early twenty-first century will literally change our minds.

Changing our textual minds analyses the continuities and discontinuities in textual transmission as we move from a print paradigm into an increasingly digital world. It conceptualises the epochal transition from analogue to digital, both in factual terms and in terms of its social significance. Book jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719085550

0719085551

OCLC:

701811103