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How the Page Matters
Bonnie Mak
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Description for How the Page Matters
Paperback. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written information. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 9. Weight in Grams: 334.
From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written information.
Mak examines the fifteenth-century Latin text Controversia de nobilitate in three forms: as a manuscript, a printed work, and a digital edition. Transcending boundaries of time and language, How the Page Matters connects technology with tradition using innovative new media theories. While historicizing contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Studies in Book & Print Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442615359
SKU
V9781442615359
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Ref
99-1
About Bonnie Mak
Bonnie Mak is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Program for Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois.
Reviews for How the Page Matters
‘Mak’s monograph is an important reminder of the rich tradition of intellectual and artistic achievement recorded and disseminated within the discrete borders of the page… Rather than a passive carrier of information, the page matters as a lively and active participant in a conversation between author, designer, and reader.’
Julie Holcomb
Information & Culture, October 2012
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Julie Holcomb
Information & Culture, October 2012
‘How ... Read more