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OK (Paperback)
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OK (Paperback)
Series: Object Lessons
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Loot Price R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "OK" as a word accepts
proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good),
provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK
as an object, however, tells a story of how technology writes
itself into language, permanently altering communication. OK is a
young word, less than 200 years old. It began as an acronym for
"all correct" when the steam-powered printing press pushed
newspapers into the mainstream. Today it is spoken and written by
nearly everyone in the world. Drawing on linguistics, history, and
new media studies, Michelle McSweeney traces OK from its birth in
the Penny Presses through telephone lines, grammar books, and
television signals into the digital age. Nearly ubiquitous and
often overlooked, OK illustrates the never-ending dance between
language, technology, and culture, and offers lessons for our own
techno-historical moment. Object Lessons is published in
partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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