Thomas J. Misa is the director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. The institute “makes primary source materials relating to the…
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Headrick’s When Information Came of Age shows that as the complexity of societies increases, it becomes more important to have accessible and easily understandable organization…
Leave a CommentOne of my first impressions of From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library was that the chapter layout does an excellent job of…
Leave a CommentVensa’s collection of edited essays examines the intersection of art and technology, with a focus on information storage and completion. She argues that artists must…
Leave a CommentThis is my first time reading Ong’s Orality and Literacy, in spite of his prevalence within the T&T coursework. Before I get into specifics, I…
Leave a Comment“We depend in a variety of ways on our knowledge of print in order to read and write hypertexts”. (Bolter, 2001, p. 45). Bolter’s Writing…
Leave a CommentMy generous feelings for the Economics of Attention have cooled after reading the second half of the book (and because of the conversation we had…
Leave a CommentTo start off this semester, we read the first four chapters of Dr. Richard Lanham’s The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age…
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