Track Changes : : A Literary History of Word Processing / / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 22 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: It Is Known --; 1. Word Processing as a Literary Subject --; 2. Perfect --; 3. Around 1981 --; 4. North of Boston --; 5. Signposts --; 6. Typing on Glass --; 7. Unseen Hands --; 8. Think Tape --; 9. Reveal Codes --; 10. What Remains --; After Word Processing --; Author’s Note --; Notes --; Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674969469; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674969469?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.

Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?