Forwarded on behalf of Open Book Publishers:
... news of a new publication: "Text and Genre in Reconstruction. Effects of Digitalization
on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions", edited by Willard
McCarty.
The book is available in paperback (£13.95), hardback (£23.95), and
digital pdf (£4.95) editions. It is also accessible online for free. It
may be accessed by following this link to our website:
www.openbookpublishers.com/product.php/64
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.
Text and Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the
humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone
interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in the
digital age.
Kind regards,
Georgina
Contents
Introduction, Willard McCarty
1. Never Say Always Again: Reflections on the Numbers Game, John Burrows
2. Cybertextuality by the Numbers, Ian Lancashire
3. Textual Pathology, Peter Garrard
4. The Human Presence in Digital Artefacts, Alan Galey
5. Defining Electronic Editions: A Historical and Functional Perspective
Edward Vanhoutte
6. Electronic Editions for Everyone, Peter Robinson
7. How Literary Works Exist: Implied, Represented, and Interpreted, Peter
Shillingsburg
8. Text as Algorithm and as Process, Paul Eggert
9. 'I Read the News Today, Oh Boy!': Newspaper Publishing in the Online
World, Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland
References
No. of pages: 256
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Georgina Hill
Marketing Manager
Open Book Publishers
www.openbookpublishers.com
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