TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lanham,Richard A.
TI  - The electronic word: democracy, technology, and the arts 
SN  - 9780226469126 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QA76.9.C66 L363 1993eb
U1  - 303.48/34 22
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Ordinateurs et civilisation
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Social Aspects
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Computers
KW  - gtt
KW  - Maatschappij
KW  - Elektronische informatie
KW  - Datenverarbeitung
KW  - swd
KW  - Schriftliche Kommunikation
KW  - Demokratisierung
KW  - Society
KW  - Effects of
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Electronic Word: Literary Study and the Digital Revolution; 2. Digital Rhetoric and the Digital Arts; 3. Twenty Years After: Digital Decorum and Bi-stable Allusions; 4. The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum; 5. Electronic Textbooks and University Structures; 6. Strange Lands, Strange Languages, and Useful Miracles; 7. The "Q" Question; 8. Elegies for the Book; 9. Operating Systems, Attention Structures, and the Edge of Chaos; 10. Conversation with a Curmudgeon; Index
N2  - The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses
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