A Better Pencil

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Dennis Baron

页数:278

出版时间:2009-09-24

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780195388442

图书标签:技术媒介研究therePeopleAnthropology

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.