Month: August 2014
Symposium 6 Questions
Can technology progress independently of art and culture? What is the untapped potential of hypertext? Will we ever be satisfied with it? Have internet users lost a sense of privacy? Is bl... Read More
Writing and Technologies
Mia with notes from the Bolter readings, Rachel on what might it mean to realise that writing, just like a computer, is a deeply technological technology (couldn’t resist, sorry).... Read More
Hypertext and Stuff
Mia on the Landow with a nice observation that blogs aren’t really like blogs, for instance blogs are ‘backwards’, and unlike diaries are public. Tilly pauses on just one thing in th... Read More
Print and Networks
I use print literacy to understand network literacy because we are, literally, deeply print literate. So deep most of it is unconscious. Tilly has notes from the symposium about this.... Read More
The Internet’s Original Sin – The Atlantic
The Internet's Original Sin – The Atlantic. This is an article about advertising and the web. From it you will learn a lot about how advertising works online, but it is much more interestin... Read More
Networked Practices
This brief article is about Vine (an app we used to get media for interactive projects in a second year subject), what’s interesting for me is not the shortness (in an industrial age dominated ... Read More
Reading 06
We are continuing for a bit on the hypertext, but shifting from the writing side to some introductory material on its implications for narrative, and readers. While this reading is about hypertext, th... Read More