Modes of writing in a digital age: The good, the bad and the unknown

an article by Anne Mangen (University of Stavanger Norway) published in First Monday Volume 23 Number 10 (October 2018)

Abstract

With digitization, our modes of writing change and we go from writing by putting pen to paper, to typing on a variety of screens.

In educational as well as in leisurely settings, writing by hand is increasingly marginalized, and may in a foreseeable future be abandoned altogether.

Summarizing some of the research comparing handwriting and typewriting, this article aims to shed light on some salient features handwriting and keyboard writing, and to discuss what may be the implications of the ongoing marginalizing or even abandonment of handwriting — in a short- and long-term perspective.

Full text (HTML)

---