Description: Further DetailsTitle: Computing as WritingCondition: NewISBN-10: 0816697027EAN: 9780816697021ISBN: 9780816697021Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/15/2015Description: This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices (“notebook” computers) through the design of user interfaces (the “desktop”) to how we describe the work of programmers (“writing” code). Computing as Writing ponders both the implications and contradictions of the metaphor. During the past decade, analysis of digital media honed its focus on particular hardware and software platforms. Daniel Punday argues that scholars should, instead, embrace both the power and the fuzziness of the writing metaphor as it relates to computing—which isn’t simply a set of techniques or a collection of technologies but also an idea that resonates throughout contemporary culture. He addresses a wide array of subjects, including film representations of computing (Desk Set, The Social Network), Neal Stephenson’s famous open source manifesto, J. K. Rowling’s legal battle with a fan site, the sorting of digital libraries, subscription services like Netflix, and the Apple versus Google debate over openness in computing. Punday shows how contemporary authors are caught between traditional notions of writerly authority and computing’s emphasis on doing things with writing. What does it mean to be a writer today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Should we change how we teach writing? Punday’s answers to these questions and others are original and refreshing, and push the study of digital media in productive new directions.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 25mmAuthor: Daniel PundayGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Society & Culture, Literary Criticism, Computing & InternetType: TextbookRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Computing as Writing
Title: Computing as Writing
ISBN-10: 0816697027
EAN: 9780816697021
ISBN: 9780816697021
Release Date: 12/15/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Computing & Internet
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Computing As Writing
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Information Theory, Social Aspects, Authorship, Media Studies, General, Digital Media / General, Rhetoric, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Daniel Punday
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
