Literature and the Arts

How have books been challenged in the late 20th century?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/have-books-been-challenged-late-20th-century-115803.html" >How have books been challenged in the late 20th century?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

During the latter part of the 20th cent. the standing of the book as an information source was challenged by other media including television, computers, and on-line databases.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about book from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition at Encyclopedia.com.

Similar questions: What alternative sources of information have threatened the authority of the book medium? What media have arisen to challenge books' dominance in the 20th century? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century...
Magazine article from: Social Education ...Struggle: 20th Century Practice...Horizons Books, 2005 The...s recent book, Waging...brings to his latest book an impressive...He has been called...application. His books have been translated...authority is challenged, sanctions...
Replicating Ourselves In the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education ...What has 20th century meant for...University, the late Dr. Marguerite...American women have long been underrepresented...century, we have moved from...Still, the 20th century has been a period in...published as a book, is rifled...Sisterspace and ...
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History ...early in the century, when other...articles and books addressed...band or a later Rolling Stones...treatments have focused on...that has been "demedicalized" in the 20th century, [3] but...breakdown has been characteristically...more often challenged power ...
THE FUTURE.(hegemony in 20th and 21st centuries)
Magazine article from: Commonweal ...hegemony will be challenged In talking about...system will have changed in fundamental...will both be challenged. The nature...Look back a century. In 1900 the...best-selling book in 1910, The...exploits. But I have surely made...fourteen years later were to destroy...All ...
Recalling daring female scientist who challenged father of DNA.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ...There have been many unsung...cancer, might have remained one...half of the 20th century that what...bestselling book "The Double...scientist - as her latest biographer...and might have been pretty if...Aaron Klug (later himself a...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.