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Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

Haas, Christina

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Business GeneralGeneral ReferenceWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 0805819940
ISBN13: 9780805819946
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 1995
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the computer revolution and making far-reaching claims about the impact of computers on modern western culture. Implicit in many arguments about the revolutionary power of computers is the assumption that communication, language, and words are intimately tied to culture -- that the computer's transformation of communication means a transformation, a revolutionizing, of culture. Moving from a vague sense that writing is profoundly different with different material and technological tools to an understanding of how such tools can and will change writing, writers, written forms, and writing's functions is not a simple matter. Further, the question of whether -- and how -- changes in individual writers' experiences with new technologies translate into large-scale, cultural revolutions remains unresolved. This book is about the relationship of writing to its technologies. It uses history, theory and empirical research to argue that the effects of computer technologies on literacy are complex, always incomplete, and far from unitary -- despite a great deal of popular and even scholarly discourse about the inevitability of the computer revolution. The author argues that just as computers impact on discourse, discourse itself impacts technology and explains how technology is used in educational settings and beyond.

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