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Sherry Turkle, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”
This article suffers from many of the classic flaws in discriminatory and invalidating thinking about computers/the computing generation that I’ve explored in other annotations, but I think some of them are successfully answered by Gardner & Davis and others. Turkle … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11 generation, annotation, app generation, avatars, computers, digital generation, digital immigrants, digital natives, generation me, how computers change the way we think, interface, millennial generation, powerpoint, privacy, sherry turkle, simulations, text, thinking, word processing
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Matthew Kirschenbaum, “How has technology changed writing and literature?”
On some awful video software, Kirschenbaum traces the history of the introduction of computers into writers’ practices of composing and editing mostly works of what would be considered “literature”–fiction, screenplays, etc. Word processing software met with some resistance, was considered … Continue reading
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Tagged annotation, composition, digital tools, history, matthew kirschenbaum, technology, text, track changes, word processing, writing
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