“Will new media writing replace the standard book/page? Judging by demographics and usage, hardly. Will e-books replace the book? Again, unless electronic paper really gets off the ground, hardly. A physical book is a personal object that carries the marks of its being-read, from owner to owner; there’s no indication that this will be replaced. With temporary print media, on the other hand – newspapers, magazines, handouts, etc., the opposite is true; offline newspaper readership is going down quickly, while online is rising. There is also the issue of authority/authorization; blogs are rapidly becoming news sources themselves.” (Sondheim, p.378-379)It is not the end of old technologies, merely a change in direction, a reconsidered approach to them. Considering the new technologies, they are becoming more and more ingrained in our lives. We no longer need to remember things, just Google it. Only the role of the new technologies in our creative lives needs to be flagged. We do not write for the machine, yet it is present in everything we do. We now have a trilogical approach to our work/play. We now have a screen mediated culture.
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
The End of Old Technology?
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A very interesting final project, Alessa. I'm wondering, though, why on the one hand you chose a blog format, but on the other hand presented it in a rather more linear fashion than a blog format would imply? With an introduction at the top and a list of references at the end, it borrows a lot from the trad essay structure. Rearview mirror?
Exactly. Four years of essay writing habits are hard to break.
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