Mihai Nadin’s The Civilization of Illiteracy is a wide-ranging study of how literacy, language, and communication are changing in the age of digital media. Nadin argues that the dominance of the written word is giving way to new forms of expression.
The book examines the cultural and economic consequences of this shift across many fields. It is a substantial work of media theory reflecting on the future of reading and writing. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. Download the free EPUB of this provocative study of literacy in the digital age.