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    Nina Shen Rastogi
    Editor and writer
    Brooklyn, NY 09.22.010
    Selected Work
    Revolution 3.0: Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
    by Nina Shen Rastogi
    In their introduction to The Book History Reader, David Finkselstein and Alistair McCleery write: "The history of human communication can be interpreted as comprising three major revolutions: in the movements from orality to literacy, from the written text to the printed text, and from print to computer-generated content."

    We're currently living in the middle--or perhaps more accurately, the early stages--of this third revolution. My portfolio will attempt to track some of the ways in which technology is changing two of the most basic human activities of the past four centuries: reading and writing.
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  • THE BASICS
    Feature Story: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Lust (PopMatters)
    News Story: Why Does China Care About Tibet? (Slate)
    Profile: Keeping the Line Between the Past and the Present (PopMatters)
    Criticism: East Meets Kvetch (Nextbook)
    nsr236 at nyu dot edu

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