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Nina Shen Rastogi's Book List Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994) Renowned literary critic Birkerts' examination of technology's effect on literature MORE: Amazon listing AGNI, a literary magazine edited by Birkerts Wen Stephenson's response to the book (from Atlantic Monthly) Tim O'Reilly, etc., O'Reilly Radar O'Reilly Radar is a collective blog that "watches the alpha geeks" in order to determine emerging technology trends. O'Reilly Media, Inc., is a leading computer book publisher that also organizes important tech conferences, including the one that launched the "Web 2.0" meme. This section of the blog is specifically about the publishing industry. MORE: Blog contributors/researchers Institute for the Future of the Book, if:book if:book is a blog written by members of the Institute for the Future of the Book, an innovative think tank in Brooklyn. Always thought-provoking, often pleasantly literary. Below are links to some of the Institute's recent projects. MORE: Flight Paths, a collaborative novel The Googlization of Everything, a networked non-fiction book CommentPress, an add-on for the WordPress blogging system that allows readers to post paragraph-by-paragraph comments in the margins of the text Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds., The New Media Reader (2003) A collection of essays about the history and theory of new media. MORE: Amazon listing Grand Text Auto, a collective blog written by the book's authors Geoffrey Nunberg, ed., The Future of the Book (1996) Anthology of papers from a seminal conference on the subject, convened by Umberto Eco and others about 13 years ago in Italy. MORE: Amazon listing Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000) This debut novel is often cited by theorists interested in po-po-mo, transmedia narrative. MORE: Amazon listing |
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