Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace

James J. O'Donnell

The written word has been a central bearer of culture since antiquity. However, its position is now being challenged by the powerful media of electronic communication. In this book James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. O'Donnell reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: the transition from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, from copied manuscript to print. His portrayals of these analogous epochal moments suggest that our steps into cyberspace are not as radical as we may think. Observing how technologies of the world have affected the shaping of culture in the past, and how technological transformation has been managed, we regain models that can help us navigate the electronic transformation now underway. Concluding with a focus on the need to rethink the modern university, O'Donnell specifically addresses learning and teaching in the humanities, proposing ways to seek the greatest benefit from electronic technologies while steering clear of their potential pitfalls.

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  • Preface Introduction: The Scholar in His Study 1. Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato 2. From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text 3. From the Codex Page to the Homepage Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading 4. The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea? 5. The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations 6. Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways 7. The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work? 8. What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only) 9. Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace Bibliographic Notes Index

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書名 Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace
著作者等 O'Donnell, James Joseph
O'Donnell James J.
出版元 Harvard University Press
刊行年月 2000, c1998
ページ数 xii, 210 p.
大きさ 21 cm
ISBN 067400194X
NCID BB16321387
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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