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How PowerPoint makes you stupid : the faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship that have taken over our thinking / Franck Frommer ; translated from the French by George Holoch.
- Title
- How PowerPoint makes you stupid : the faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship that have taken over our thinking / Franck Frommer ; translated from the French by George Holoch.
- Author
- Frommer, Franck.
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.
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- Description
- xvi, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Reveals that PowerPoint's celebrated ease and efficiency can actually lead to a disturbing transformation in human communication, with implications not only for individuals but also for the culture at large.
- Uniform Title
- Pensée Powerpoint. English
- Alternative Title
- Pensée Powerpoint.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Invention of a Universal Medium -- 2. Another Way of Working -- 3. Bullet-Point Rhetoric -- 4. From Obfuscation to Falsification -- 5.A Total Spectacle -- 6. The Power of Consultants -- 7. Universal Contamination -- 8. At School with PowerPoint?
- ISBN
- 9781595587022 (hardback)
- 1595587020 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2011033975
- OCLC
- 701019407
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library