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Review in Technology and Culture 53.1

February 24, 2012 – 5:59 am

Bernadette Longo’s review of From A to <A> appears in Technology and Culture 53.1:

The editors of this collection assert that it addresses a gap in software studies concerning “the relationship between software and markup” (p. xvi). Although I did not find many connections to this theme, I did find a thread of argument about how web design reflects, and functions in, our physical world. I think these contributions will be valuable to others who think about relations between technology and culture.

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Review in Kairos 16.2

January 15, 2012 – 1:33 pm

Kevin Brock has written a detailed review in Kairos 16.2, including short pieces about every essay in From A to <A>:

This collection of texts on the histories, technical capabilities, and broader cultural concerns of specific HTML tags/keywords, edited by Bradley Dilger and Jeff Rice, provides a set of much-needed and insightful inquiries into the impacts upon web communication that influence so much of our understanding of what hypertext is and what it can do. … [The book] hints at a tremendous amount of potential for continued discourse across multiple scholarly and professional disciplines. Like the dynamic, continually-evolving code examined by the contributors, this potential is not casuistic but remains open and virtual.

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Review in Media International Australia… 140

December 29, 2011 – 12:58 pm

Craig Haight has penned a review of From A to <A> in Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, in the August 2011 issue:

There are many examples of how simple code changes (such as a preference for one·HTML tag. over another) created ripples throughout the layered relationships between content and users. These are lessons vital to understanding contemporary online cultures. … The best entries provide excellent historical background that anyone using the web should read…

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Review in CCC 63.2

December 14, 2011 – 12:49 pm

Kristine Blair includes From A to <A> in her review essay, “New Media Affordances and the Connected Life“, published in the December 2011 issue of CCC:

From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup is theoretically and rhetorically situated in the history of technology … The collection is organized around various aspects of HTML tagging, from <head> to <alt> to <body> to <img> and others, with the contributors serving as “rhetorical coaches” who move beyond the clinical technological description of the various markup terms to establish interdisciplinary connections among rhetorical and critical theory, writing pedagogy, philosophy, media, and design.

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Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award

May 21, 2011 – 10:11 am

Jeff and I are very pleased to announce that From A to <A> was selected for the Computers and Composition 2010 Distinguished Book Award. We are grateful to the C&C editors and reviewers, and quite honored to count From A to <A> among the previous award winners.

Congratulations to our contributors–obviously, the strength of the collection is their essays!

And once again, thank you to Douglas Armato, Danielle Kasprzak, and everyone at the University of Minnesota Press for agreeing to publish From A to <A>, then ushering the book into print very smoothly.

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In print

December 11, 2010 – 10:23 am

Good news: Jeff and I have received our advanced copies of From A to <A>, and the book is in stock at Amazon as well.

From A to <A> is here

Obviously, Jeff and I are very pleased. We are grateful to our contributors for their fantastic essays, and to the University of Minnesota Press, for a very smooth publishing process.

Now to sell a few copies! We’d love to hear from anyone writing a review or thinking about adopting the text for a course.

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Indexing

October 1, 2010 – 2:25 pm

We sent the index off to the typesetter. Here it is rendered as a word cloud:

From A to <A> word cloud

We’re getting closer now…

(crossposted from cbd.)

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