Galloway, Alexander R. Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization. The MIT Press, 2006. Print. This reading was so dense! So instead of me trying to summarise the theories of decentralisation and protocol and it’s relation to the world wide web… Continue Reading
…Is there one?? UPDATE: The reading didn’t load for me until today… I think maybe it was posted last night? Anyway, point is I have not had enough time to read it. So, from skimming the reading, what I… Continue Reading
Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print. I didn’t like this reading. It’s not that it didn’t make sense or that it was difficult to follow, I’m just not quite sure what… Continue Reading
Murphie, Andrew, and John Potts. Culture and Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print. ‘Theoretical Frameworks’ extract (PDF) This reading focussed largely on the idea of technological determinism, a concept which has recently been covered in Communication Histories and Technologies and hence… Continue Reading
Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books — Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. I thought that this reading gave a really good introduction to the idea of hypertext, as although this is… Continue Reading
Extracts from: Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. This reading covered a lot… and I mean a lot. Then again, perhaps it only seemed like a lot because… Continue Reading
Nelson, Theodor Holm. Literary Machines 91.1: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow’s Intellectual Revolution, And Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom. Sausalito: Mindful Press, 1992. Print. I found the reading… Continue Reading
Reading One: (Miles, Adrian. “Network Literacy: The New Path to Knowledge.” Screen Education Autumn.45 (2007): 24–30) In this reading, the concept of network literacy is explained through: a) relating ‘network literacy’ to ‘book literacy,’ something more conceptually easy to grasp… Continue Reading
The readings for this week discussed copyright laws in Australia and their relation to our blog content. With that in mind, I will not be attaching any pictures, documents, sound clips or the like to this post, mostly out of… Continue Reading
A response to this reading: For the reading, we were asked to come up with some questions before the next symposium. So, here it is. 1) How can we – as students – know what ‘voice’ to use in our… Continue Reading