The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts by Richard A.
Lanham, U
of Chicago Press, 1993. Yes, written before the Web took off, but a
brilliant
analysis of the implications of telecommunications and digital
technology for
education and culture.
M. Freeman
Eva Ekeblad wrote:
> At 08.34 -0600 98-11-13, Kevin Leander wrote:
> >Speaking of space, I think this collective self-representation of a
> >classroom, with participants raising hands, sitting in the back, etc., is
> >pretty darned interesting.
>
> Yah, it's like we need those auditorium spaces as a reference point for
> understanding what connects the xmca share of what pops up on this reading/
> /writing space, the surface of the screen. I've just read Jay David
> Bolter's *Writing Space. The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of
> Writing* from 1991. Which was ALSO pretty darned interesting, both beacuse
> of the way he treats "writing space" and because it, already, had this
> *dated* feel. The Web wasn't around yet when Bolter was enthusing about
> hypertext.
>
> cheers
> Eva
>
> PS The Bolter book is on Erlbaum