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Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.

Track Changes : A Literary History of Word Processing / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. - 1 online resource (368 p.) : 22 halftones

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.

ISBN: 9780674969469

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674969469 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Technological innovations.
Word processing--History.
Writing--Technological innovations.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General.

LC Class. No.: Z52.4 / .K57 2016eb

Dewey Class. No.: 005.52