The Electronic Word

Published in 1993. To long ago to be pertinent to the digital world twenty some-odd years later? Or worth checking out? It's in the library, so at least a trip across campus. QA76.9.C66 L363 1994, Brownsville Stacks. Theory tends to be more durable than technology. So, possibilities.  

 

Richard A. Lanham

302 pages | 4 halftones, 2 line drawings | 6 x 9 | © 1993

The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.