Ted Striphas

Ted Striphas is an American academic, professor and author of The Late Age of Print.

Career

Striphas received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] He is currently a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University-Bloomington.[2]

The Late Age of Print

The Late Age of Print is Striphas's best-known and best-selling work, published by Columbia University Press.[3] The book discusses technological innovations in printing and publishing, such as Google's book scanning and Amazon's Kindle.[4] In addition, The Late Age of Print discusses the inevitability of the Borders Bookstore bankruptcy and subsequent closure.[5] The book has received generally positive reviews from The Guardian and other sources.[6]

Striphas's blog continues discussion of the critical and technological issues raised in The Late Age of Print. The blog has received praise from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other sources.[7]

Awards

He received the 2010 Book of the Year Award from the National Communication Association's Critical Cultural Studies Division for The Late Age of Print.[1]

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References
  1. http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/faculty/striphas.shtml
  2. "Ted Striphas". indiana.edu.
  3. "Reading and Publishing in Print's Late Age: An Interview with Ted Striphas". Quarterly Conversation.
  4. "The Late Age of Print by Ted Striphas". Quarterly Conversation.
  5. "The Past and Future Histories of Books: An Interview with Ted Striphas". henryjenkins.org.
  6. Steven Poole. "Review: The Late Age of Print by Ted Striphas". the Guardian.
  7. "Home - Spark with Nora Young - CBC Radio". cbc.ca. 28 September 2015.
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