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Transferred Illusions

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Transferred Illusions book

Digital Technology and the Forms of Print

Transferred Illusions

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Transferred Illusions book

Digital Technology and the Forms of Print
ByMarilyn Deegan, Kathryn Sutherland
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 24 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550190
Pages 218 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315550190
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature, Reference & Information Science
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Deegan, M., Sutherland, K. (2009). Transferred Illusions. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550190

This is a study of the forms and institutions of print - newspapers, books, scholarly editions, publishing, libraries - as they relate to and are changed by emergent digital forms and institutions. In the early 1990s hypertext was briefly hailed as a liberating writing tool for non-linear creation. Fast forward no more than a decade, and we are reading old books from screens. It is, however, the newspaper, for around two hundred years print's most powerful mass vehicle, whose economy persuasively shapes its electronic remediation through huge digitization initiatives, dominated by a handful of centralizing service providers, funded and wrapped round by online advertising. The error is to assume a culture of total replacement. The Internet is just another information space, sharing characteristics that have always defined such spaces - wonderfully effective and unstable, loaded with valuable resources and misinformation; that is, both good and bad. This is why it is important that writers, critics, publishers and librarians - in modern parlance, the knowledge providers - be critically engaged in shaping and regulating cyberspace, and not merely the passive instruments or unreflecting users of the digital tools in our hands.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|28 pages

After Print?

chapter 2|30 pages

A Future and a Past for Newsprint

chapter 3|30 pages

The Cultural Work of Editing

chapter 4|30 pages

New Modes of Publishing

chapter 5|36 pages

The Universal Library

chapter 6|28 pages

Durable Futures

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