How PowerPoint makes you stupid : the faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship that have taken over our thinking /
Frommer, Franck
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. - New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012. - xvi, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Invention of a Universal Medium --
Another Way of Working --
Bullet-Point Rhetoric --
From Obfuscation to Falsification --
A Total Spectacle --
The Power of Consultants --
Universal Contamination --
At School with PowerPoint?
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.
9781595587022 (hardback) 1595587020 (hardback)
Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file)--Social aspects.
Microsoft PowerPoint (Programa para computador) --Aspectos sociales
HM 851 / T932h 2012
005.5/8
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. - New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012. - xvi, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Invention of a Universal Medium --
Another Way of Working --
Bullet-Point Rhetoric --
From Obfuscation to Falsification --
A Total Spectacle --
The Power of Consultants --
Universal Contamination --
At School with PowerPoint?
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.
9781595587022 (hardback) 1595587020 (hardback)
Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file)--Social aspects.
Microsoft PowerPoint (Programa para computador) --Aspectos sociales
HM 851 / T932h 2012
005.5/8