The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, by Birkerts
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Speaking as "an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle," Birkerts argues with passion and dismay that modern electronic communication and information technologies have brought our culture to "what promises to be a total metamorphosis.... What is roaring by, destined for imminent historical oblivion, is the whole familiar tradition of the book."
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Inf. Soc.
دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995