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The Introduction provides an overview of the ideas and issues explored in the book. The impact of online and digital technologies on the publishing industry, on journalism, and on creative writing, is considered. A brief history of writing is provided for context, along with a survey of recent scholarship on the cultural effects of the internet with specific reference to writing. Potts introduces this volume on the future of writing with some general observations on the prospects of writing and reading in the internet age.
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Notes
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, p. 215.
Pierre Levy, ‘Toward Superlanguage’, in ISEA 94 Catalogue. Helsinki: University of Art and Design, 1994, p. 14.
Mark Amerika, ‘What in the World Wide Web Is Happening to Writing?’, 2000, cited in Andrew Murphie and John Potts, Culture and Technology. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, p. 73.
Steven Roger Fisher, A History of Writing. London: Reaktion Books, 2001, pp. 11–12.
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Nietzsche’s aphorism is cited by Friedrich Kittler in Gramophone, Film Typewriter. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999, p. 200.
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows. London: Atlantic Books, 2010, p. 129.
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Potts, J. (2014). Introduction. In: Potts, J. (eds) The Future of Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440402_1
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