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Scrolling forward: making sense of documents in the digital age

By David M , Levy

Book information

Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Year
2011
ISBN
9781611455595, 1611455596, 9781611459845, 1611459842
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1256366 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Digital communications--Social aspects;PSYCHOLOGY-

Description

We are surrounded by documents of all kinds, from receipts to letters, business memos to books, yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as out reading and writing habits are being questioned and transformed by new technologies ad practices. What is the future of the book? Is paper about to disappear? With the Internet and World Wide Web, what will happen to libraries, copyright and education? Starting with a simple deli lunch receipt, SCROLLING FORWARD examines documents of all kinds from the perspectives of culture, history, and technology in order to show how they can work and what they say about us and the values we carry into the new age.

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