Foreword
By Sue Thomas
I’ve been working with writing and computers for over 20 years, and all that time I’ve been trying to figure out what this new technology really means. I’ve watched the computer evolve from a glorified typewriter to an incredible portal for the imagination in which writing is both multimodal and interactive. Through the lens of computers and the Web I have seen text take second place to image, sound, and video. I have seen writers and readers begin to view themselves not as isolated individuals but as members of a connected collaborative community. For 10 years I led such a group, the trAce Online Writing Community, which at its peak around the turn of the millennium had around 5,000 members in over 30 countries across ...
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