McCarty, Willard, 1945- editor. text Electronic books. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers, 2010. eng "In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse"--Publisher's description. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243). Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-04-29). Computers and civilization. Electronic publications. Computers and civilization. Computing and information technology. Electronic publications. Ethical and social aspects of IT Mod Ethical and social aspects of IT. Humanities. Information technology: general issues Mod Information technology: general issues. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--General. Language. linguistics. Computers Cybertext Digital text Digitization Electronic editions Identity Information technology Linguistics Newspapers Online journalism Publishing Text and genre in reconstruction. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019452801 URN:ISBN:9781906924263 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International