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Text and genre in reconstruction [electronic resource] : effects of digitalization on ideas, behaviours, products and institutions / edited by William McCarty.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : OpenBook Publishers, 2010Description: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations, chartsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781906924263
  • 1906924260
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Text and genre in reconstruction.DDC classification:
  • 303.4833 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.C66
Online resources:
Contents:
Never say always again : reflections on the numbers game / John Burrows -- Textual pathology / Peter Garrard -- The human presence in digital artefacts / Alan Galey -- Defining electronic editions : a historical and functional perspective / Edward Vanhoutte -- Electronic editions for everyone / Peter Robinson -- How literary works exist : implied, represented, and interpreted / Peter Shillingsburg -- Text as algorithm and as process / Paul Eggert -- "I read the news today, oh boy!" : newspaper publishing in the online world / Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland.
Summary: "In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse"--Publisher's description.
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Never say always again : reflections on the numbers game / John Burrows -- Textual pathology / Peter Garrard -- The human presence in digital artefacts / Alan Galey -- Defining electronic editions : a historical and functional perspective / Edward Vanhoutte -- Electronic editions for everyone / Peter Robinson -- How literary works exist : implied, represented, and interpreted / Peter Shillingsburg -- Text as algorithm and as process / Paul Eggert -- "I read the news today, oh boy!" : newspaper publishing in the online world / Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243).

"In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse"--Publisher's description.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Directory of Open Access Books, viewed June 7, 2012).

English.

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