We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from Part II - Expressions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2023
This chapter reflects on the changes in written communication associated with digital technology using some of the perspectives developed in earlier chapters. In particular, it focuses on differences in materiality and changes in display and design. When considering digital communication, there is plenty of evidence that writing is in ascendency, and that there is increased diversification in what we write and how we write it. New questions about who finds a voice and how we evaluate what is written have arisen. In times of post-truth, populism, political and religious extremism, writing can still be dangerous but it can also work to unite and consolidate, as it has done in the recent pandemic. If writing plays such a significant role in our social and cultural life, using it wisely is crucially important.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
