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 Readers and Readings in the Electronic Age
How does one read on-screen? Does the change in the support of texts mean that the contents of texts will change as well? What are the texts that will still be called 'books' once they are made available through the unified medium of screens?
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Roger Chartier
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 What the Internet tells us about the Real Nature of the Book
The philosopher may wonder: what is a book? This is an ontological problem: the book is at once a physical and a mental entity.
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Roberto Casati
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 Skyreading and Skywriting for Researchers: A Post-Gutenberg Anomaly and How to Resolve it
In the Post-Gutenberg Galaxy, a profound dividing line will emerge between so-called ‘non-give-away work’ and so-called ‘give-away work’ such as scientific and scholarly research papers.
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Stevan Harnad
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 Transmitting, reacting, remembering: Journalism on the Internet
Internet is a new medium but not a new language. How does the language of journalism adapt and transform itself with this new medium?
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Bruno Patino
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 The Future of the Internet: A conversation with Theodore Zeldin
Internet does not change the world. It is our awareness of having new needs and goals that creates a new vision of the world, a vision that can help us understand what we want out of the Internet.
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Theodore Zeldin
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 Reading: The Digital Future
Various book supports will continue to coexist, while the range of expertise needed for the publishing of texts and the management of rights is already undergoing a radical transformation.
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Jason Epstein
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 Babel and the Vintage Selection: Libraries in the Digital Age
What is a library in the numerical age? In an institution which, traditionally, is devoted to the written word and to its memory, the advent of unstable and potentially infinite information could put in question the very nature of the library.
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Equipe BPI
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 Reading without Writing
This contribution to the symposium will reflect on the future of texts which will continue to be read but will no longer be written.
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Dan Sperber
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 New Architectures of Information
After having observed in our usability labs hundreds of users interacting with websites and other electronic media one fact is clear: users do not read more than four lines of text on the screen. We will try to explain why.
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Stefana Broadbent
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, Francesco Cara
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 Authors and Authority
What is the role of the expert and of the intellectual at a time when information is accessible to virtually everyone? Do intellectuals play the role of a ‘Web-filter’?
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Umberto Eco
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