Ebook336 pages20 hours
Scrolling Forward, Second Edition: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
By David M. Levy and Ruth Ozeki
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document.
Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age.
We are surrounded daily by documents of all kindsletters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pagesyet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices.
An expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of emerging documents. He demonstrates how today’s technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventionssuch as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewritersin shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age.
We are surrounded daily by documents of all kindsletters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pagesyet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices.
An expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of emerging documents. He demonstrates how today’s technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventionssuch as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewritersin shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Read more from David M. Levy
Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Scrolling Forward, Second Edition
Related ebooks
Ashes to Ink: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJustin Chin: Selected Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaria Campbell: Essays On Her Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Notebooks: A Writer's Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlways Brave, Sometimes Kind: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thin Line Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Be the Poet Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stilt Jack Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Melting Season Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCompanion to an Untold Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Street Belongs to Us Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEverything Affects Everyone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComing into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMeatspace Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Becoming: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Away With This Inverted World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of The Sellout Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGo Away Birds Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gray Is the New Black Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Since When Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMexican Journal Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cairn: New & Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBook of This Place: The Land, Art, and Spirituality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadow Distance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Drum Tower Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rhizome: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Fate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Computers For You
CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-701 Study Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mastering ChatGPT: 21 Prompts Templates for Effortless Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Procreate for Beginners: Introduction to Procreate for Drawing and Illustrating on the iPad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Create Cpn Numbers the Right way: A Step by Step Guide to Creating cpn Numbers Legally Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Designer's Web Handbook: What You Need to Know to Create for the Web Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The ChatGPT Millionaire Handbook: Make Money Online With the Power of AI Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCreating Online Courses with ChatGPT | A Step-by-Step Guide with Prompt Templates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Practical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Learning the Chess Openings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5ChatGPT Ultimate User Guide - How to Make Money Online Faster and More Precise Using AI Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeople Skills for Analytical Thinkers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5CompTIA Security+ Practice Questions Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 4: Inspiration from the Best Web Design Trends, Themes and Styles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ultimate Guide to Mastering Command Blocks!: Minecraft Keys to Unlocking Secret Commands Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Remote/WebCam Notarization : Basic Understanding Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ridiculously Simple Guide to Google Docs: A Practical Guide to Cloud-Based Word Processing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElon Musk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5CompTIA IT Fundamentals (ITF+) Study Guide: Exam FC0-U61 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaster Builder Roblox: The Essential Guide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Scrolling Forward, Second Edition
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Scrolling Forward, Second Edition - David M. Levy
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1