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  title info:
    title: Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
  name:
    name part: Eve, Martin Paul
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: US-CA
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (436 pages) : 3 tables, 11 halftones.
  abstract: Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metaphors move through three life phases. Initially they are descriptive. Then they encounter a moment of fracture or rupture. Finally, they go on to have a prescriptive life of their own that conditions future possibilities for our text environments-even when the metaphors have become untethered from their original intent. Why is "whitespace" white? Was the digital page always a foregone conclusion? Over a series of theses, Eve addresses these and other questions in order to understand the moments when digital-textual metaphors break and to show us how it is that our textual softwares become locked into paradigms that no longer make sense. Contributing to book history, literary studies, new media studies, and material textual studies, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History provides generative insights into the metaphors that define our digital worlds.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- One Theses on the Metaphors of Digital- Textual History -- Two The Virtual Page Almost Never Existed -- Three Digital Whitespace Is the Seriality of Musical Silence -- Four Digital Text Is Geopolitically Structured -- Five Digital Text Is Multidimensional -- Six Windows Are Allegories of Political Liberalism -- Seven Libraries Are Assemblages of Recombinable Anxiety Fragments -- Eight Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost -- Nine Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Martin Paul Eve.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Metaphor
  subject:
    topic: Technology
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Text processing (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Word processing
  subject:
    topic: Informatique
    topic: Langage
  subject:
    topic: Métaphore
  subject:
    topic: Technologie
    topic: Langage
  subject:
    topic: Traitement de texte
  subject:
    topic: metaphor
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: book history.
  subject:
    topic: computing history.
  subject:
    topic: digital humanities.
  subject:
    topic: digital-material studies.
  subject:
    topic: metaphor.
  classification: P325.5.M47
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Stanford Text Technologies
  identifier: 9781503639393
  identifier: 1503639398
  identifier: 2024003651
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 240826
    record change date: 20241018184655.0
    record identifier: in00005507690
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng