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Intro We are witnessing the end of one paradigm of writing and the emergence of another. The older one corresponds with the generation of writers roughly 40 and over. This generation of writers and readers was raised in the last phase of print culture and enjoyed an immersion in a completely different linguistic environment. Verbal communication was still profoundly affected by the protocols of print, such that it was possible for the culture as a whole to maintain a belief in the subordinate status of images and the spoken word, and the primacy of the printed, written word. To the new generation, the verbal arts are one among a variety of media in a multi-media environment, and the written word is now seen as the authentic product of both the computer and print. This changes the status of the book, and the assumptions we bring to the texts we inscribe within it. This text is an exploration of these changes.
Headings The computer and the book The book as multi-media space, a transcript of a spoken performance
Screen and book The authorial effect Verbal expression after the book Gabbers and gurus
Writing, orality, speech What remains of the book and the author
Writing is functional What characterizes new writing Literature is now a genre The author as a brand
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