A Better Pencil by Dennis Baron
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.
A useful counter-argument to the gloomy techno-pessimists, * Henry Farrell, Times Higher Education *
Dennis Baron is Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195388442 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195388445 |
| Title | A Better Pencil |
| Author | Dennis Baron |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2009-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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