The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox

By John Freeman

Book Overview

The award-winning editor of Granta magazine examines the astonishing growth of email - and how it is affecting people's lives, not always for the better. Drawing extensively on the research of linguists, behavioural scientists, cultural critics and philosophers, Freeman examines the way email is taking a mounting toll both on language and on social behaviour. He enters a plea for communication which is slower, more nuanced and - above all - more sociable.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416576738
• ISBN13: 9781416576730
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Dated

Published in 2009, this is more useful as a look back on the history of communication since clay tablets. Phone texting has probably made some of this info a bit dated.