Benetech has recently released several enhancements to its Bookshare library program, including a suite of free reading apps for web, iOS, Android, and Alexa and the addition of five thousand human-narrated audiobooks. Bookshare is available individuals who have a qualifying reading or perceptual disability, a visual impairment, or a physical disability that affects their ability to read printed works. Membership is free to qualified US students and $50 a year for US adults. For more information, visit www.bookshare.org External.
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Course Description: This course explores the anxiety, exhaustion, and unease brought on by information technologies. We will trace emotional responses to technological change, from the shock of the printing press to the malaise of the present "information economy." How did new text technologies reshape language and society? Who is permitted access to certain kinds of information and why? We will take a hands-on approach to these questions by pairing literature that addresses the anxieties of technology, like the scifi linguistics of Arrival and the postapocalyptic Shakespeare of Station Eleven, with book history and digital humanities techniques designed to manage information. Students will learn how books are made, how search algorithms work, and how to analyze text with code. 2ff7e9595c
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