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Shrinking the World

Shrinking the World

The 4000-Year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives

by John Freeman
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/10/2009

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The first email was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011 there will be 3.2 billion users.
The flood of messages is ceaseless. As the toll of email mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation, and separating us from each other in the lonely battle with the inbox, Freeman enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.
Drawing on the research of linguists, scientists, critics and philosophers, Freeman's history of correspondence reveals how changing methods of communication have eroded the great distances between us. He shows how the telegram, newspapers, synchronised time and railway networks have changed everything from the nature of military intelligence to the messages we write to loved ones.
From carrier pigeon to computer mouse, this fascinating and engaging history of how we communicate will make you view your inbox in a whole new light.


ISBN:
9781921520945
9781921520945
Category:
Communication studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-10-2009
Publisher:
Text Publishing Company
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x20mm
Weight:
0.34kg
John Freeman

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor of the Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and The Tyranny of E-mail, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology of new writing about inequality in the U.S. today.

Maps, his debut collection of poems, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he is Writer in Residence at New York University.

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