Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope

by Jeffrey Bilbro

The industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how a previous era was shaped by the assumptions print technology engendered may enable us to recognize more clearly how our verbal habits and practices are formed and deformed by our enmeshment in digital technologies.

When powerful new verbal media...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481319825
• ISBN13: 9781481319829
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.7"