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Author Lanham, Richard A

Title The electronic word : democracy, technology, and the arts / Richard A. Lanham
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Electronic Word: Literary Study and the Digital Revolution; 2. Digital Rhetoric and the Digital Arts; 3. Twenty Years After: Digital Decorum and Bi-stable Allusions; 4. The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum; 5. Electronic Textbooks and University Structures; 6. Strange Lands, Strange Languages, and Useful Miracles; 7. The "Q" Question; 8. Elegies for the Book; 9. Operating Systems, Attention Structures, and the Edge of Chaos; 10. Conversation with a Curmudgeon; Index
Summary The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses
Analysis Society Effects of Computers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Computers and civilization.
COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects -- General.
Computers and civilization
Datenverarbeitung
Schriftliche Kommunikation
Demokratisierung
Computers.
Maatschappij.
Elektronische informatie.
Form Electronic book
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