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1 online resource (299 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Writing in the Material World; 1 The Technology Question; 2 Technology Studies; Part II: The Role of Technology in the Cognition of Literacy; 3 Reading On-Line; 4 Materiality and Thinking: The Effects of ComputerTechnology on Writers' Planning; 5 Text Sense and Writers' Materially Based Representations of Text; Part III: The Social and Cultural Construction of Literacy Tools; 6 Social Dynamics, or Scientific Truth, or Sheer HumanCussedness: Design Decisions in the Evolution of aUser Interface |
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7 Constructing Technology Through Discoursewith Ann GeorgePart IV: Conclusions and Future Inquiry; 8 Historicizing Technology; 9 Theorizing Technology; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the ""computer revolution"" and making far-reaching claims about the impact of computers on modern western culture. Implicit in many arguments about the revolutionary power of computers is the assumption that communication, language, and words are intimately tied to culture -- that the computer's transformation of communication means a transformation, a revolutionizing, of culture. Moving from a vague sense that wr |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136687556 |
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1136687556 |
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