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Computing As Writing

Computing As Writing

Computing As Writing
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Computing As Writing Paperback - 2015

by Punday, Daniel,

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  • Title Computing As Writing
  • Author Punday, Daniel,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
  • Publication date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 23958492
  • ISBN 9780816697021 / 0816697027
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature and society, Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014043042
  • Dewey Decimal Code 802.85
  • Quantity available 3

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From the publisher

This book examines the common metaphor that equates computing and writing, tracing it from the naming of devices ("notebook" computers) through the design of user interfaces (the "desktop") to how we describe the work of programmers ("writing" code). Computing as Writing ponders both the implications and contradictions of the metaphor.

During the past decade, analysis of digital media honed its focus on particular hardware and software platforms. Daniel Punday argues that scholars should, instead, embrace both the power and the fuzziness of the writing metaphor as it relates to computing--which isn't simply a set of techniques or a collection of technologies but also an idea that resonates throughout contemporary culture. He addresses a wide array of subjects, including film representations of computing (Desk Set, The Social Network), Neal Stephenson's famous open source manifesto, J. K. Rowling's legal battle with a fan site, the sorting of digital libraries, subscription services like Netflix, and the Apple versus Google debate over openness in computing.

Punday shows how contemporary authors are caught between traditional notions of writerly authority and computing's emphasis on doing things with writing. What does it mean to be a writer today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Should we change how we teach writing? Punday's answers to these questions and others are original and refreshing, and push the study of digital media in productive new directions.


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  • Choice, 09/01/2016, Page 0

About the author

Daniel Punday is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet. He is the author of several books, including Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction and Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology.


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