Scrolling Forward - 9781628723274
Un libro in lingua di Levy David M. Ozeki Ruth (FRW) edito da Arcade Pub, 2016
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A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document.
Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David M. Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and as we move into the digital age.
We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds?letters and credit-card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages?yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices.
An expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of documents that are emerging. He demonstrates how today’s technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventions?such as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewriters?in shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past..
Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David M. Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and as we move into the digital age.
We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds?letters and credit-card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages?yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices.
An expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of documents that are emerging. He demonstrates how today’s technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventions?such as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewriters?in shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past..
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Scrolling Forward
- Sottotitolo: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Levy David M. Ozeki Ruth (FRW)
- Editore: Arcade Pub
- Collana: Arcade Pub (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 05 Gennaio '16
- Genere: LANGUAGE ARTS and DISCIPLINES
- Pagine: 223
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 0
- EAN-13: 9781628723274