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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeff Scheible |
ISBN: | 9780816695737 0816695733 9780816695744 0816695741 |
OCLC Number: | 1156742627 |
Description: | ix, 160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: textual shift and the cultural logic of punctuation -- Connecting the dots: periodizing the digital -- Within, aside, and too much: on parentheticality across media -- # logic -- Coda: canceling the semiotic square. |
Responsibility: | Jeff Scheible. |
Abstract:
Emoticons matter: Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives - using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices across the digital age. Jeff Scheible argues argues that pronounced shifts in textual practices have occurred with the growing overlap of crucial spheres of language and visual culture, that is as screen technologies have proliferated and come to form the interface of our everyday existence. Specifically, he demonstrates that punctuation and typographical marks have provided us with a rare opportunity to harness these shifts and make sense of our new environment. He does so through key films and media phenomena of the twenty-first century, from the popular and familiar to the avant-garde and the obscure. -- from back cover.
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"Jeff Scheible argues that when writing-and all of culture-is undergoing radical change through the overwhelming adoption of networked and programmable media, it is possible to detect and analyze these changes in the encompassing details, in the cultural logic of punctuation, for example. This book is highly engaging. Scheible's arguments are compelling and provocative."-John Cayley, Brown University Read more...
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