Scrolling Forward, Second Edition (eBook)

Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

David M. Levy (Autor)

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2016 | Second Edition
276 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-698-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document.Like Henry Petroskis The Pencil, David Levys Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age.We are surrounded daily by documents of all kindsletters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pagesyet 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 emerging documents. He demonstrates how todays technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventionssuch as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewritersin 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.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

David M. Levy has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University as well as a diploma in calligraphy and bookbinding. He was a researcher at Xerox PARC and is currently a professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. He is also the author of Mindful Tech. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2016
• Vorwort: Ruth Ozeki
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: ada byron • Ada Lovelace • african drum • african drumming • african talking • Alan Turing • Applications • Artificial Intelligence • bell labs • charles babbage send messages • Claude Shannon • college papers • College Students • communication skills • creating presentations • DES • designer's • Digital Revolution • Digital technologies • Digital World • douglas hofstadter • dream speech • electrical ology • emotional connections • english class • English Majors • face-to-face communication • face-to-face interaction • gibaldi • human relationships • Information Age • Information Content • Information science • Information Technology • Information Theory • Interface • interpersonal relationships • James Gleick • jungle drums • language association • life saver • mla handbook • mla style • Mobile Devices • modern language • mssr • Paro • Popular science • Presentation Zen • Quantum Physics • Research papers • robotic toys • Sherry Turkle • Social Media • Social Networks • Steve Jobs • talking drums • Tamagotchi • Text Messages • theoretical framework • Virtual World • WordPress • write papers • write research
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-698-9 / 1628726989
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-698-5 / 9781628726985