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- 17:02, 20 January 2025 Mullaney 2017 (hist | edit) [22,955 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Mullaney, Thomas S. ''The Chinese Typewriter: A History.'' MIT Press, 2017. Mullaney - The Chinese Typewriter A History Introduction: There is No Alphabet Here There was a Chinese dao to match the Greek logos, one that functioned according to a two-part organizational system well known in China. In the first of these, Chinese characters are ordered according to the number of pen- or brushstrokes needed to compose them, an organizational scheme that had been a mainstay...")
- 19:25, 6 January 2025 Haigh and Ceruzzi 2021 (hist | edit) [104,738 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Haigh and Ceruzzi, ''A New History of Modern Computing'' (2021) == Becoming Universal: Introducing a New History of Computing == The wholesale shift of video and music reproduction to digital technologies likewise challenges us to integrate media history into the long his- tory of computing. Since the original book was written, the computer had become something new, which meant that the book also had to become something n… Yet this discussion is rarely grounded in...")
- 01:59, 17 December 2024 Schorb 2014 (hist | edit) [912 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Schorb, Reading Prisoners Interested in how literate practices show up in relation to prisons, e.g. gallows and confession literature, prison libraries, prisoner education and transformation. Library histories have claimed that education has always been entangled with prisons from their earliest days but this is not true. Wines and Dwight – 225-232 – reporting on secular instruction, literacy instruction, and rise of libraries in prisons (qtd in Schorb 131) See 13...")
- 01:59, 17 December 2024 Sweeney 2010 (hist | edit) [382 bytes] Wtrettien (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sweeney, Megan. ''Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons.'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. "explores how some women prisoners use the limited reading materials available to them in creative and important ways: to come to terms with their pasts, to negotiate their present experiences, and to reach toward different futures."")