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Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound
Lori Emerson
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Description for Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 232 pages, 41 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
Lori Emerson examines how interfaces-from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes-mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries. Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative ... Read more
Lori Emerson examines how interfaces-from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes-mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries. Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Electronic Mediations
Condition
New
Weight
297g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691265
SKU
V9780816691265
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About Lori Emerson
Lori Emerson is assistant professor of English, as well as the founder and director of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Reviews for Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound
Emerson's book is not only fascinating because of the richness of its close-readings or the thought-provoking frictions that it creates between historically, technologically, culturally, ideologically very diverse authors and practices. Its most appealing aspect is the political stance it takes towards its material. -Image (&) Narrative Reading Writing Interfaces draws our attention back to the materiality ... Read more