{"id":1381,"date":"2009-10-21T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:22:24","slug":"the-abuses-of-literacy-oct-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/21\/the-abuses-of-literacy-oct-22\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Abuses of Literacy&#8221; &#8211; Oct 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Ted Striphas (University of Indiana, Department of Communication and Culture) will be visiting the UI campus next week.&nbsp; He will present a public lecture titled &#8220;The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle and the Right to Read&#8221; at 4 pm on October 22nd in Adler E105.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Striphas will also meet with a graduate seminar to discuss his book, <em>The Late Age of Print<\/em>, on October 23 from 9:30 am-12:00 p.m. in 106 BCSB.&nbsp; If you would like to attend the seminar, please feel free to drop in for part or all of the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to read all or parts of his book, it is available for download for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelateageofprint.org\/download\/\">http:\/\/www.thelateageofprint.org\/download\/<\/a> .&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Striphas&#8217; visit is co-sponsored by the Departments of American Studies,Communication Studies, English, Journalism and Mass Communication, as well as the Center for the Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ted Striphas (University of Indiana, Department of Communication and Culture) will be visiting the UI campus next week.&nbsp; He will present a public lecture titled &#8220;The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle and the Right to Read&#8221; at 4 pm on October 22nd in Adler E105. Professor Striphas will also meet with a graduate seminar<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/21\/the-abuses-of-literacy-oct-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;&#8220;The Abuses of Literacy&#8221; &#8211; Oct 22&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}