CyberPl@y - communicating online (Paperback)

The Internet is changing the way we communicate. As a ‘cross’ between letter-writing and conversation, email has altered traditional letter-writing conventions. Websites and chat rooms have made visual aspects of written communication of greater importance, arguably, than ever before. New communication codes continue to evolve with unprecedented speed.
This book explores playfulness and artfulness in digital writing and communication and anwers penetrating questions about this new medium. Under what conditions do old letter-writing norms continue to be important, even in email? Digital greetings are changing the way we celebrate special occasions and public holidays, but will they take the place of paper postcards and greeting cards? The author also looks at how new art forms, such as virtual theatre, ASCII art, and digital folk art on IRC, are flourishing, and how many people collect and display digital fonts on handsome Websites, or even design their own. Intended as a ‘time capsule’ documenting developments online in the mid- to late 1990s, when the Internet became a mass medium, this book treats the computer as an expressive instrument fostering new forms of creativity and popular culture.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Brenda Danet
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	436
ISBN-13:	978-1-85973-424-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > General Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-85973-424-3
Barcode:	9781859734247

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