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Track Changes : A Literary History of Word Processing / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : 22 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674969469
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.52 23
LOC classification:
  • Z52.4 .K57 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: It Is Known -- 1. Word Processing as a Literary Subject -- 2. Perfect -- 3. Around 1981 -- 4. North of Boston -- 5. Signposts -- 6. Typing on Glass -- 7. Unseen Hands -- 8. Think Tape -- 9. Reveal Codes -- 10. What Remains -- After Word Processing -- Author’s Note -- Notes -- Credits -- Index
Summary: Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674969469

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: It Is Known -- 1. Word Processing as a Literary Subject -- 2. Perfect -- 3. Around 1981 -- 4. North of Boston -- 5. Signposts -- 6. Typing on Glass -- 7. Unseen Hands -- 8. Think Tape -- 9. Reveal Codes -- 10. What Remains -- After Word Processing -- Author’s Note -- Notes -- Credits -- Index

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Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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