A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, And The Digital Revolution
by Dennis Baron /
2009 / English / PDF
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A Better Pencil examines the digital revolution in light of the history of writing technology. Baron looks at how we love, fear, actually use our writing machines-not just computers but typewriters, pencils, and clay tablets-how we deploy them to replicate the old ways of doing things while actively generating new modes of mass expression how we learn to trust new technology and the new and strange sorts of texts that it produces hwo we expand the notion of who can write and who can't and how we free our readers and writers while at the same time trying to regulate their activities.
