Frank Thomas asks:


>I start to think about the fact that ICTs are well embedded in our
cultures of text and voice communications. ...

>Would someone on the list be so kind to point me to a good start for
reading, for books, articles, online texts, market research, I dont
know what ...


Lest she be forced to toot her own horn, the article Brenda Danet
recently cited:


<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Danet, Brenda. 1997. "Books, Letters,
Documents: the Changing Aesthetics of Texts in Late Print Culture."
<italic>Journal of Material Culture</italic> 2:5-38.


is a really nice thoughtful look at these questions. Naomi Baron's book
_From Alphabet to Email_  is also a good reference.


Nancy 
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