Richard A. Lanham, The Electronic Word: Democracy,
Technology, and the Arts (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1993).
An eloquent argument that IT, rather than undermining
humanistic studies, holds out the best hope for its
revitalization. DS
Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of
Narrative in Cyberspace (New York: Free Press, 1997).
Explores forms of narrativity in the past and as they are
now being reshaped by IT. DS
Dennis A. Trinkle, ed., Writing, Teaching, and Researching
History in the Electronic Age: Historians and Computers
(Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998).
Essays -- ranging from the philosophical to the very
practical -- presented at a 1997 Cincinnati symposium on
history and computing (including a chapter by me). DS
