The Age of Distraction: Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy

by Robert Hassan

Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena. Reading and writing have functioned together in a particular way to build the world as we have known it for three thousand years. These interacting processes have now been transformed at their core and are building a different world, one where certainties of the previous era are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412843065
• ISBN13: 9781412843065
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"