6. The Descriptive Code

Electronic text markup languages are the systems used by web designers for annotating texts in terms of form and syntax. Markup gives instructions Continue reading →

5. Text as Data

If you haven’t heard of the Google Books Ngram Viewer, I highly suggest you check it out.  As expressed by Continue reading →

4. Text on the Web

“Our culture wants both to multiply its media and to erase all traces of mediation: ideally it wants to erase Continue reading →

3. Text Adaptation

According to John Berger’s essay, Ways of Seeing, the way we see includes looking- an act of choice, and is Continue reading →

2. The Relationship Between Reader and Writer

Despite my last claim that reading is a one-way form of communication, many scholars will agree that there is in Continue reading →

1. Paratexts

“But the text is rarely presented in an unadorned state, unreinforced and unaccompanied by a certain number of verbal or Continue reading →