Writing Space

Reviews / Votes

Comments on the first edition:
"Bolter has provided a superbly clear, thorough, and theoretically sophisticated discussion of the computer as a medium for writing, as contextualized within the history of writing."
-Journal of Communication

Comments on the first edition:
"This is a notable book, essential to a balanced understanding of the role played by the computer in the development of literature and thought in our time."
-American Scientist

Comments on the first edition:
"What makes this a fascinating study is the way in which the author throughout compares and contrasts electronic writing and its tacit presuppositions with the values and strategies of earlier writing technologies."
-Religious Studies Review

"The second edition of Writing Space will serve as a touchstone text for readers who haven't read the first edition and perhaps would be most useful in undergraduate or graduate classes that focus on the historical context of hypertext studies."
-Technical Communication Quarterly

Praise for the first edition:
"This book combines a deep understanding of technology and of the history of literature and culture, making it unique in depth, breadth, understanding--and therefore, unique in its importance to all of us, be we humanist, technologist, or just everyday reader."
-Donald Norman
University of California at San Diego; author, The Design of Everyday Things

Praise for the first edition:
"It may well be that Writing Space does for electronic writing what Gutenberg did for print."
-Brian Eno
in Art Forum