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Reading Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Johanna Drucker
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Interface, we think, is the screen, the display, the portal into the online world or computer. The GUI (Graphical User Inter-face), with its menu bars and navigational buttons, is so familiar that we tend to overlook the “gooeyness” of it—the mutable, mediating activity—and take interface for a thing, static, stable, and fixed. Or we take it as a representation of computational processes, a convenient translation of what is “really going on” inside. Neither could be further from actuality.

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 128 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 213 - 220
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Copyright © 2013 by The Modern Language Association of America

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