Who Needs Books?

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-77212-124-7
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 116 g

Reihe: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.”

What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive internet turning readers into web-surfing automatons and books themselves into museum pieces? The bogeyman of technological change has haunted humans ever since Plato warned about the dangers of the written word, and every generation is convinced its youth will bring about the end of civilization. In Who Needs Books?, Coady suggests that, even though digital advances have long been associated with the erosion of literacy, recent technologies have not debased our culture as much as they have simply changed the way we read. Introduction by Paul Kennedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coady, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
The Monster at the End of this Book
Good Night, Sweet Prince (of Art Forms)
You Maniacs!
But What about the Children?
The End of Civilization as We Know It
Technoserfs
We Happy Few

Über Autor(innen)

Coady, Lynn
Lynn Coady is an award-wining author and journalist. Her first novel, Strange Heaven, was nominated for the Governor General's Award, and in 2011, her novel The Antagonist was shortlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, an award she won in 2013 for her short story collection Hellgoing. Coady lives in Toronto, where she writes for television.