Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions.

ISBN 10: 1906924244 / ISBN 13: 9781906924249

Published by Open Book Publishers, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions.
• Publisher: Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906924244
• ISBN 13: 9781906924249
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse. Text and Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in the digital age.

About the Author

Willard McCarty is a  reader in Humanities Computing, King's College London, and founding editor of the online seminar "Humanist,"