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The Technology of Difference: ASCII, Hegemony, and the Internet

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Saturday night. My partner, Yuka, is translating Orphan at My Door by Canadian Children’s author Jean Little into Japanese2 (Little, 2001). Her plan is to translate it into a web-page diary in a format known as a blog (Cooper, 2001; Power, 2001). Blogging will allow her to maintain an on-line journal, where each entry is not just a static web page, but forms part of a chronologically ordered interactive database. A group of Japanese scholars, friends, and her editor will be able to follow the progress and make suggestions, and the finished product will be downloaded by the publisher and printed. A novel approach, to translate an orphan’s diary using an on-line diary-writing tool.

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Exchange, and is the encoding method by which most text-based information moves around the Internet.

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Nolan, J. (2005). The Technology of Difference: ASCII, Hegemony, and the Internet. In: Trifonas, P.P. (eds) Communities of Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981356_10

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