OK (Object Lessons)

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things."OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK as an object, however, tells a story of how technology writes itself into language, permanently altering communication. OK is a young word, less than 200 years old. It began as an acronym for “all correct” when the steam-powered printing press pushed newspapers into the mainstream. Today it is spoken and written by nearly everyone in the world. Drawing on linguistics, history, and new media studies, Michelle McSweeney traces OK from its birth in the Penny Presses through telephone lines, grammar books, and television signals into the digital age.Nearly ubiquitous and often overlooked, OK illustrates the never-ending dance between language, technology, and culture, and offers lessons for our own techno-historical moment.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Copyright:

1850

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

144 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781501367199

Related ISBNs:

9781501367182

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

01/11/23

Copyrighted By:

laws, when a new book arrived from Europe, it could be reprinted in the United States without paying any royalties. Though this loophole was closed by the end of the

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy

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Bookshare Staff

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