The tyranny of e-mail
Subtitle: the four-thousand-year journey to your inbox
By: John Freeman.
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781416576730
Subjects: Electronic mail systems -- Social aspects; Electronic mail systems; Business communication; Interpersonal communication
Description: Freeman takes an entertaining look at the nature of correspondence through the ages, considers the consequences of email overload, and enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Words in motion; title: The invention of now; title: All together now; title: This is your brain on e-mail; title: Dawn of the machines; title: Manifesto for a slow communication movement; title: Don't send.