Text and genre in reconstruction [electronic resource] : effects of digitalization on Ideas, behaviours, products and institutions / [edited by] Willard McCarty.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction by Willard McCarty -- 1. Never Say Always Again: Reflections on the Numbers Game John Burrows -- 2. Cybertextuality by the Numbers / Ian Lancashire -- 3. Textual Pathology / Peter Garrard -- 4. The Human Presence in Digital Artefacts / Alan Galey -- 5. Defining Electronic Editions: A Historical and Functional Perspective / Edward Vanhoutte -- 6. Electronic Editions for Everyone / Peter Robinson -- 7. How Literary Works Exist: Implied, Represented, and Interpreted / Peter Shillingsburg -- 8. Text as Algorithm and as Process / Paul Eggert -- 9. 'I Read the News Today, Oh Boy!': Newspaper Publishing in the Online World / Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland -- References.

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"In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse. Text and Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in the digital age."--Publisher's website.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.