New Books Network Podcast: „OK“

Das Buch von Michelle McSweeney wurde am 11.4.2023 im New Books Net­work Pod­cast vorgestellt:

„OK“ as a word accepts pro­pos­als, describes the world as sat­is­fac­to­ry (but not good), pro­vides con­ver­sa­tion­al momen­tum, or even agrees (or dis­agrees). OK as an object, how­ev­er, tells a sto­ry of how tech­nol­o­gy writes itself into lan­guage, per­ma­nent­ly alter­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion. OK (Blooms­bury, 2023), by Dr. Michelle McSweeney and pub­lished by Blooms­bury in 2023, explores this sto­ry

OK is a young word, less than 200 years old. It began as an acronym for “all cor­rect” when the steam-pow­ered print­ing press pushed news­pa­pers into the main­stream. Today it is spo­ken and writ­ten by near­ly every­one in the world. Draw­ing on lin­guis­tics, his­to­ry, and new media stud­ies, Michelle McSweeney traces OK from its birth in the Pen­ny Press­es through tele­phone lines, gram­mar books, and tele­vi­sion sig­nals into the dig­i­tal age.

This inter­view was con­duct­ed by Dr. Miran­da Melch­er whose doc­tor­al work focused on post-con­flict mil­i­tary inte­gra­tion, under­stand­ing treaty nego­ti­a­tion and imple­men­ta­tion in civ­il war con­texts, with qual­i­ta­tive analy­sis of the Angolan and Mozam­bi­can civ­il wars.

Wir haben das Buch als eBook im Bestand.