Scrolling Foward : Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

Name: Scrolling Foward : Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
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ISBN: 9781559706483

ISBN-10: 1559706481

ISBN-13: 9781559706483

Edition: 2001

Authors: David M. Levy

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Like Henry Petroski's The Pencil, Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us. We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds, yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. In this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed. Potentially unsettling questions arise: What is the future of the book? What will happen to libraries, education, literature, journalism? What does all this mean for me, my world? Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement for the future. Placing documents in…

Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

David M. Levy is Associate Professor of Economics and Research Associate, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University.

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction: The Universe Is Expanding	p. 1
Meditation on a Receipt	p. 7
What Are Documents?	p. 21
Leaves of Grass	p. 39
The Dark Side of Documents	p. 59
Reach Out and Touch Someone	p. 78
Reading and Attention	p. 101
Libraries and the Anxiety of Order	p. 118
A Bit of Digital History	p. 137
An Immense Effort	p. 158
The Search for Stable Ground	p. 180
Scrolling Forward	p. 195
Notes	p. 203
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