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A better pencil : readers, writers, and the digital revolution / Dennis Baron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baron, Dennis E., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Writing--Materials and instruments--History.
- Writing.
- Written communication--Technological innovations.
- Written communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- '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 & how we deploy them to replicate the old ways of doing things while actively generating new modes of mass expression.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface: Technologies of the Word; 1. Writing It Down; 2. TeknoFear; 3. Thoreau's Pencil; 4. National Handwriting Day; 5. Writing on Clay; 6. When WordStar Was King; 7. Trusting the Text; 8. Writing on Screen; 9. Everyone's an Author; 10. A Space of One's Own; 11. The Dark Side of the Web; 12. From Pencils to Pixels; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772123-0
- 1-282-32840-9
- 9786612328404
- 0-19-973677-4
- OCLC:
- 489708739
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