ISBN:
9781503604513
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Series Statement:
Stanford text technologies
Series Statement:
Stanford Text Technologies Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.209
Keywords:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General.-bisacsh
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems.-bisacsh
;
Communication-Technological innovations
;
Communication-Social aspects
;
Communication-History
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems ; bisacsh
;
Communication ; Technological innovations
;
Communication ; Social aspects
;
Communication ; History
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General ; bisacsh
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, form, materiality, and reception are crucial to our interpretations of culture, history, and society.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- Introduction to TEXT -- Finding and Defining TEXT -- Describing TEXT -- What Is the Study of Text Technologies? -- How to Use This Book -- Overview of This Book -- Principal Concepts -- Intentionality -- Materiality -- Functionality -- Cultural Value/Aura -- Secondary Concepts -- Sedimentation -- Authority -- Production, Transmission, Consumption -- Censorship -- Copyright -- Consortia -- Cryptography -- PART II: HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK -- Timelines -- Historical Technologies -- Writing on Stone -- Chauvet Cave Paintings -- Babylonian Clay Tablets -- The Cyrus Cylinder -- The Florida Ostraka -- Behistun Monument -- The Rosetta Stone -- Roman Inscription -- Japanese Tsunami Stones -- Breamore Church -- Signs -- Graffiti -- Writing on Cellulose -- Papyrus -- Paper -- Wax Tablets -- Seals -- Writing on Animal Skin -- Parchment and Vellum -- The Hereford Mappa Mundi -- The Scroll -- The Codex -- Tattoos -- Form and Function -- Manuscript Culture -- A Bible -- A Book of Hours -- An Antiphonal -- Voynich Manuscript -- Jacobite Manuscript Poetry -- Bookbinding -- Woodcuts and Block Printing -- The Gutenberg Bible -- William Caxton and Early Modern Printing -- Protestant Bibles -- Shakespeare's Works -- Lithography -- Minard's Carte Figurative -- Chromolithography -- Reading for Everyone -- Newspapers -- Magazines -- The Spectator -- Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language -- Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie -- Charles Dickens's Writing -- Readers and Reading -- The Marsh Library -- Duke Humfrey's Library -- The British Library -- Sound and Image -- The Zoetrope -- Film -- Television -- Radio -- Digital Technologies -- BBSs and the Well -- HTML, CSS, and RSS -- Web 2.0 -- Touchscreen Tablets -- Proprietary Content Streams.
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