The space of electronic writing is both the computer screen ... and the electronic memory.... Our culture has chosen to fashion these technologies into a writing space that is animated, visually complex, and malleable in the hands of both writer and reader. In the late age of print, however, writers and readers still often conceive of text as located in the space of a printed book, and they conceive of the electronic writing space as a refashioning of the older space of print. (Bolter, 2001 13)

Bolter asks how the shift in writing technologies reshapes the spaces we consider to be spaces of writing. How does culture resist such shifts?

   

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