Launch of New Yale University Press Book on Technology Writing
by admin | September 16, 2009 | events, publications | Comments Off
The ISP is co-sponsoring an exciting panel on September 30 to celebrate the launch of a new Yale University Press book called The Best Technology Writing 2009. The panel will feature Steven Johnson (author of The Invention of Air; and Everything Bad is Good For You), Jack Balkin (Professor of Law, Yale Law School), danah boyd (Social Media Researcher, Microsoft Research New England; Fellow, Berkman Center Harvard); Julian Dibbell (Contributing Editor, Wired, author of Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot) and will be moderated by Michael Warner (Seymour Knox Professor and Chair of English, Yale).
The event will take place on September 30 at 4:00 p.m. in Linsley Chittenden Auditorium at 63 High Street in New Haven and will be followed by a reception and book-signing, also in Linsley Chittenden Hall.
From the Yale University Press announcement: “In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing. Whether it is Nicholas Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, Dana Goodyear chronicling the rise of the cellphone novel, Andrew Sullivan explaining the rewards of blogging, Dalton Conley lamenting the sprawling nature of work in the information age, or Clay Shirky marveling at the “cognitive surplus” unleashed by the decline of the TV sitcom, this new generation does not waste time speculating about the future. Its attitude seems to be: Who needs the future? The present is plenty interesting on its own.”
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