How PowerPoint makes you stupid : the faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship that have taken over our thinking / Franck Frommer ; translated from the French by George Holoch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frommer, Franck.

Contributor:

Holoch, George.

Standardized Title:

Pensée Powerpoint. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file)--Social aspects.

Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With over 500 million users worldwide, Microsoft's PowerPoint software has become the ubiquitous tool for nearly all forms of public presentation?in schools, government agencies, the military, and, of course, offices everywhere. In this revealing and powerfully argued book, author Franck Frommer shows us that PowerPoint's celebrated ease and efficiency actually mask a profoundly disturbing but little-understood transformation in human communication.Using fascinating examples (including the most famous PowerPoint presentation of all: Colin Powell's indictment of Iraq before the Uni

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The Invention of a Universal Medium; 2: Another Way of Working; 3: Bullet-Point Rhetoric; 4: From Obfuscation to Falsification; 5: A Total Spectacle; 6: The Power of Consultants; 7: Universal Contamination; 8: At School with Power Point?; Conclusion: The Hidden Perversity of a Software Program; Notes; INDEX

Notes:

"First published as La pensee PowerPoint : Enquete sur ce logiciel qui rend stupide by La Decouverte, Paris, 2010"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613792259

9781281863676

128186367X

9781595587534

1595587535

OCLC:

774274293