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From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library
Christian Vandendorpe
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In this study, Christian Vandendorpe examines how digital media and the Internet have changed the process of reading and writing, significantly altering our approaches toward research and reading, our assumptions about audience and response, and our theories of memory, legibility, and context. Reflecting on the full history of the written word, Vandendorpe provides a clear overview of how materiality makes a difference in the creation and interpretation of texts.
In this study, Christian Vandendorpe examines how digital media and the Internet have changed the process of reading and writing, significantly altering our approaches toward research and reading, our assumptions about audience and response, and our theories of memory, legibility, and context. Reflecting on the full history of the written word, Vandendorpe provides a clear overview of how materiality makes a difference in the creation and interpretation of texts.
Surveying the conventions of reading and writing that have appeared and disappeared in the Internet's wake, Vandendorpe considers various forms of organization, textual design, the use (and distrust) of illustrations, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076251
SKU
V9780252076251
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About Christian Vandendorpe
Christian Vandendorpe is professor of lettres françaises at the University of Ottawa. His publications include Les défis de la publication sur le web: hyperlectures, cybertextes et méta-éditions and other works. Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott live and translate in Montreal, Quebec.
Reviews for From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. "In forty pithy essays, the author considers technological innovations that have transformed writing, altering the activity of reading and the processing of texts, individually and collectively. . . . The book's fragmentary organization
the adroit syntheses can be read in any order
makes it exceptionally accessible ... for the born-digital generation. . . . ... Read more
the adroit syntheses can be read in any order
makes it exceptionally accessible ... for the born-digital generation. . . . ... Read more