Reading and Writing the Electronic Book
Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a gloss over the history of electronic books, including the social and technical forces that have shaped their development. The focus then shifts to reading and how we interact with what we read: basic issues such as legibility, annotation, and navigation are examined as aspects of reading that ebooks inherit from their print legacy. Because reading is fundamentally communicative, I also take a closer look at the sociality of reading: how we read in a group and how we share what we read. Studie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-031-01138-2
- EAN: 9783031011382
- Produktnummer: 39048848
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B19.1 cm x D1.5 cm 550 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 550
Über den Autor
Catherine C. Marshall is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley Laboratory after a stint in Microsoft's product divisions as part of the Advanced Reading Technologies Team. She was a long-time member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University. The author has delivered keynotes at WWW, Hypertext, Usenix FAST, CNI, VALA, ACH- ALLC, and a variety of other Computer Science and Library and Information Science venues. This lecture is a synthesis of many of these talks. Visit Marshall's webpage at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall for more information about her publications, blog, contact details, and how she is related to Elvis.
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