The Book and the World Wide Web
Keywords:
Google books, internet, web communication, reference literature, computational reading, content management system, new media literature, cybertext, Spiller, TeoAbstract
The essay considers the effects of internet-based communication on the book as a carrier of a message. An examination of Teo Spiller’s “sonnet-like” web projects and of web archives such as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows which aspects of the book have changed or were improved in web-based communication forms, and which aspects are book-specific and thus retain their value in the Internet era.References
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