Ted Striphas

Ted Striphas is an American academic, professor and bestselling author. He is most famous for his bestselling book The Late Age of Print.

Life

He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1]

Career

He is currently a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University-Bloomington.[2]

Works

The Late Age of Print

The Late Age of Print is Striphas's best-known and best-selling work, published by Columbia University Press.[3] The book discusses technological innovations in printing and publishing, such as Google's book scanning and Amazon's Kindle.[4] In addition, The Late Age of Print discusses the inevitability of the Borders Bookstore bankruptcy and subsequent closure.[5] The book has received generally positive reviews from The Guardian and other sources.[6]

The Late Age of Print: Beyond the Book

Striphas's blog continues discussion of the critical and technological issues raised in The Late Age of Print. The blog has received praise from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other sources.[7]

Awards

He received the 2010 Book of the Year Award from the National Communication Association's Critical Cultural Studies Division for the The Late Age of Print.[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/faculty/striphas.shtml
  2. ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~bookworm/
  3. ↑ http://quarterlyconversation.com/reading-and-publishing-in-prints-late-age-an-interview-with-ted-striphas
  4. ↑ http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-late-age-of-print-by-ted-striphas-review
  5. ↑ http://henryjenkins.org/2012/03/the_late_age_of_print_an_inter.html
  6. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jun/13/ted-striphas-review
  7. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2011/10/07/full-interview-ted-striphas-on-algorithmic-culture/
  8. ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/faculty/striphas.shtml

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