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Email

By Professor Randy Malamud
Series: Object Lessons
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Email by Professor Randy Malamud explores how this once-novel communication tool fundamentally altered our way of connecting. Tracing its rise since the mid-1990s, the book reveals how email reshaped our attention, intelligence, and daily interactions amidst the flood of digital noise. Part of the acclaimed Object Lessons series, it offers a beautifully designed and thought-provoking reflection on the hidden cultural impact of a seemingly ordinary technology.
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Ideal for readers interested in cultural studies, technology's societal effects, and communication history. Suitable for those who feel overwhelmed by digital life and seek a deeper understanding of email's pervasive influence.

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Sometime in the mid-1990s, we began, often with some trepidation, to enrol for a service that promised to connect us—electronically and efficiently—to our friends and lovers, our bosses and clients. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realise that email entails a more fundamental alteration in our communicative consciousness.

Randy Malamud's Email is written for anyone who feels their attention and their intelligence—not to mention their eyesight—being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather and meaningless internet flotsam.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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This engaging volume uses sharp prose and keen insight to present a compelling snapshot of collective experience around email, delighting social historians. Praised as a fast, funny, and compulsive read, Randy Malamud's work balances rhapsody and critique to offer a fresh perspective on our electronic inboxes. Times Higher Education and Mikita Brottman, Professor of Humanistic Studies, commend its innovative and slyly subversive approach.

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ISBN: 9781501341908

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 September 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 120.0mm

Height: 164.0mm

Weight: 171g

Pages: 184

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Arts & Culture Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Professor Randy Malamud Series: Object Lessons

About the Author

Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of ten books, including Reading Zoos (1998) and An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture (2012). He has written for HuffPost, Salon, Film Quarterly, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Los Angeles Times and has appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR.

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