Nooks not Books -digital media

 Main Argument: My main argument for this essay is that books will become completely digitized in the future, no matter what kind of book causing a need of revision for the Darnton's Communication Circuit, editing out binders and printers, while changing shipping processes and supplies needed. Whether it be for record keeping, entertainment, or personal use, the book as a print model will cease to exist. As it is remediated, losing the physical aspect of reading, it will continue down the path of modern society, and books will then not only have digitized aspects, but new created material will start on the computer and change into the genre of electronic literature, causing in the late future, for digitized books to be more minimal, and electronic literature to become the new medium. Electronic literature will create a whole new aspect for reading making it more exciting through animation, sounds, and text movement. I argue this because with technology continuing to grow and continuing to become more interactive, electronic literature will become a more fun and integrated way of reading. It is part of our society to update and converge everyday items and the print world is now apart of the convergence cycle.

I specified my argument from printers will not exist anymore to that books will slowly but surely completely change its medium. Books instead will start out digitized with non-moving graphics and no sound, then start to change into the genre of electronic literature, creating mini-genres inside this mass genre for horror, comedy, fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, etc. The electronic literature aspect is in the long term future, but I do believe our books will slowly become more like "text movies" meaning that you are not only reading the book, you are watching and listening to its surroundings and animations added to create the mood as well.



I will use ideas from my sources about how this will happen and why this will happen. In Adams and Barker they speak about how Darnton's Communication Circuit focus's on the people aspect of the book rather than the book aspect of the book. They believe the shipper and binder should not be included and that publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception, and survival should be the continuous circuit. This will begin my paper, as this new way of writing the circuit started my idea on the Darnton's Communication Circuit.

With Karen Coyle's reading she explains that because of scanning improvements this has improved the idea of digitized books and digital online libraries as well as with Crowley's article in how modernism will cause an inevitable conversion from print media to digital media; these readings will help me focus on why books are becoming digital.

Paul Duguid will show the opposite side of the argument, that books are being said goodbye to too quickly. I will challenge his argument with the data I have found.

Finally Katherine Hayles's article will be of great importance because I believe that this is what will happen to books. They will become electronic literature, almost changing electronic literature from a genre of what it is now, to a format. A book won't be just something you read out in the sun on the beach. It'll be an adventure with animation, sound, moving text, etc. Something that puts you almost inside the moment as if you are the text itself.

Annotated Bibliography

Adams, Thomas R. and Nicolas Barker. "A New Model for the Study of the Book." A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. (1993): 43-62. Web. 29 Nov. 2010  (little confused on how to do this because i am following the MLA format journal article for an online database and do not have the search engine it was found in..)
In Adam and Barkers "New Model for the Study of the Book" they argue that Darnton's Communication Circuit focus's more on the people making the books then the books themselves. They said to revise the circuit the circuit should focus more on the book. So they believed the circuit should cancel the shipper and binder all together. Adam and Barkers believe the model should go in a continuous circuit of publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception and survival because Darnton's circuit nodes are more of outside things influenced by the book. This argument will help with my paper, because this is where I got my idea about books becoming digitized books then electronic literature all together, slowly but surely extincting the print world.


Coyle, Karen. "Mass Digitization of Books." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32.6 (2006): 641-645. Science Direct. Web. 29 Nov. 2010.
 In Karen Coyle's article she speaks of how digitization is occurring through many different media sites, such as Google, JSTOR, Microsoft and universities that are working with similar sites to create online library databases. She believes that digitized books are largely to due with improvements in scanning. This article will help me with explaining how these online libraries with digitized articles and books are an improvement from print sources.  

Crowley, David. "Doing Things Electronically." Canadian Journal of Communication 19.1 (1994): n.pag. Web. 30 Nov. 2010
David Crowley speaks about how technology has began to influence our thoughts of communication in a technological standard. David Crowley thesis is that there is a growth of communication through technology and that the role of media continues with the role of modernity. He explains like other things that have converged and are converging at this moment, such as from the telegraph to the telephone, print will too continually converge to electronic books.

 Darnton, Robert."Darton's Communication Circuit". The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995) 189. History Cooperative. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.
The Darton's Communication Circuit is the primary source of my argument. The Darton's Communication Circuit is a  continuous circle putting the author, publisher, printers, shippers, booksellers and readers all connected. Inside the flow chart is a venn diagram that connects the economic and social conjuncture of communication with political and legal sanctions and intellectual influences and publicity. As well as the readers are connected to the binder and the Printers are connected to the suppliers. This is the original communication circuit and I will be arguing about if their is a need for printers, suppliers booksellers and binders in the future.


Duguid, Paul. "The Past Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book." The Future of the Book. (1996): 494-505. Web. 29 Nov. 2010
In Paul Duguid's argument, he believes we are saying too quickly goodbye to the book when it should be here to stay for quite a long time. The book is more than just text on paper, its a safe keeper, record keeper, etc. He believes before we speak of serious alternatives for the book, we need to understand all aspects of it. This will be good for my paper cause it shows the other side of the argument, which I feel like is key in an argumentative paper.

Hayles, Katherine. "Electronic Literature: What is it?" Electronic Literature (2007) 1-22. Electronic Literature Organization. Web. 30 Nov. 2010
In Katherine Hayles first chapter of Electronic Literature she speaks about how the Electronic Literature Organization explains the Electronic Literature is literature that was originally meant to be read from a computer and originated on a computer, rather than books being digitized. This article will help me because I believe in the future that we will start creating electronic literature than printing books and also making them digitized.  The article speaks about how literature will utilize the electronic literature world and  how graphics, text, and sounds are changing with the change of literature to electronic literature.

KINDLES & THE NEW WORLD

As I read through readings something kept coming up throughout the weeks; electronic literature. This genre is a whole new form of how we might continue to do things. I believe that electronic literature will in the future completely eliminate written literature and everything will just be a click away.

The new argument I'd like to make, would be the libraries and any paper will cease to exist in the future. Not only for the "saving paper" movement, even though electricity uses and destroys natural resources as well at the moment,  but for the easier access. I wouldn't even be surprised if later in the future all classes became online..
Which might actually be a better topic for me to discuss...I dunno please leave comments on what might be a more interesting topic!

anyways I think the electronic world is getting extremely interesting. I went from having no electronics besides easy calculators in elementary school, to starting to use the internet/websites for middle and high school classes, and now in college it is a lot more online class work and online class sites. I feel like this interesting thing of print text could be brought to a more specific argument of this...

These are all random thoughts...so ya...haha..

Printers no more.

For my proposal, I would like to extend my argument that printers will not be needed any more and literature will be read through internet devices/online books rather than through printed materials. I would not say I would be using the online gaming reference side of this with our reading and characters, as much as previous readings including the Darnton's Communication Circuit.

I am taking this from really understanding this side, and getting praise from Julie about it. I think a large part of our readings have integrated this subject into their articles, as well as that this is our future so I feel like its an important topic to discuss. With our world today, technology is becoming more important, and in fact, when speaking to a classmate she told me that throughout her years working at a library, they have definitely seen a lower interest in people checking out books, compared to using the internet.

Throughout our readings, especially during weeks 11, 10, and 2, we speak about how literature is changing its medium. Overall, this topic is one I think I can create a strong argument for. The argument being that Electronic Literature will completely take over Print in the future.

Good meaning bad or bad meaning good?

As we have learned, many writers, such as Aristotle, believed that when print occurred the words and stories lost feeling and we became lazy as story tellers and as students. In the readings from Electronic Literature by N. Katherine Hayes she speaks about how people have used technology to tell a story with words, in creating 3-D designs as well as how technology is ingrained into our minds nowadays and how all books are now technically digital, with this in mind as well as after watching "Bust Down Your Doors" by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, do you believe that technology is ruining the print industry, like Aristotle believed print ruined story-telling? Please explain, and use an example besides Bust Down Your Doors.

In the articles Katherine Hayes explains authors that use 3D animation with their words with an expensive projectile system at some colleges. Like in David Knoebel's "Heart Pole" where he has a curcular globe of words, and two rings spinning in 90 degrees having to do with the story of the narrators mother singing him to sleep and the moment between waking up and sleeping. Or like in Screen, where David uses three CAVE walls and while the narrators are reading them, the words start falling off the "walls" and the readers can't put the words back as fast as they are falling down.All finally ending on the ground.

This is my example of how technology has enhanced print media. Print media can now be interpreted in different ways. Not in acting but in a more symbolic sense. If I watched a scene like this occur in front of me, the words would not only be telling me a story but would be showing me a story. The feeling of Screen would be intense, and stressful as I tried to read the words before they fell on the ground. Sound that can be added, like in Bust Down Your Doors, change in pace of words showing, where they are shown, or where they fall add an extreme drama to them.

So I believe that technology is helping portray written words in a more poetic way. If I'm reading a text and it has soft somber music with it, I'll find it peaceful. If I'm reading text and they are flashing in all over the page, I will feel intense. Technology will help us and let us go far in life with written text and changing it to feelings through action, it is our new form of story telling. Instead of us using our hands, voice, and facial expressions we are using font size, digital sound, pictures, swooping, sliding, rotating, flashing, etc text, and more. We are changing, and to me upgrading.

Suppliers and Printers won't be needed in the future!

In Adam and Barkers "New Model for the Study of the Book" they argue that Darnton's Communication Circuit focus's more on the people making the books then the books themselves. They said to revise the circuit the circuit should focus more on the book. So they believed the circuit should cancel the shipper and binder all together. Adam and Barkers believe the model should go in a continuous circuit of publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception and survival because Darnton's circuit nodes are more of outside things influenced by the book.

I would like to focus on the connection of the printer and suppliers.  Under Darnton's printer node compositors, pressmen, and warehousemen are starting to change. Our technology is going digital, through ipads, kindles, computers, etc. With these new technologies, like the kindle, we are losing the need for warehouse men, at least in the category of actually making the books. We are now using warehousemen to make things like kindles, where you can hold multiple books and purchase books via the kindle rather than having to go to a bookstore, choose between a hard copy and a paperback and prices. In our technology culture I wouldn't be surprised that if in several years they start doing textbooks this way for school children. This would cut off printers all together and the connection with suppliers.

The suppliers such as paper, ink, type and labor will not be needed. All that will be needed are electronic writings of the book. Paper will almost be non-existent, which I guess will be good for the environmental activists? I don't know, but I believe that this all will completely happened and has definitely started too. So once this does happen and our books become electronic completely, these nodes will be non-existent and the model will need to revised yet again.

This is shorter than usual...but I think I got my point across.

The pledge changes so much for the pledge of allegiance...

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

The Pledge of Allegiance as read above is the most current pledge students in public schools, fans of sports games, and political events say when facing a flag with their hand on their heart. SADLY, I actually had to look up the correct words to the pledge and after looking them up on a random site, I found a whole new approach to this blog.

When I was younger, from about kindergarten through 5th grade, I always believed that it said "one nation, under God, INVISIBLE, with liberty and justice for all." So this completely made sense to me, because God is invisible to us (us believers anyways). I just assumed it was going on about what God was. For this example, if invisible was the word instead of indivisible, or unable to divide, then the meaning would change for students to a more religious meaning.

As well as, to go off on this that because God is in the Pledge of Allegiance the saying already has a religious feel to it. I would not be surprised that if in a few generations from mine that the Pledge is changed yet again, due to the rapid revolution of the evolution theory, causing less people to be strong believers in Christianity.

To continue on this in http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm webpage, it has a article called The Pledge of Allegiance-A Short History. This is where I got the Pledge from and then I began to read the article...it explained interesting aspects that totally relate to Crain explanation of how one word can change an entire meaning of something, such as A is for apple not for Abraham (more christianic value) - yes I think I just made up the word Christianic... anyways...

In this article it speaks about how the Pledge has changed throughout the years. The original Pledge was created by Francis Bellamy. It was " I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. He was a major activist for equality but was afraid that putting equality into the Pledge would cause superintendents in education to not consider it during the flag raising ceremony  and flag salute because women were not considered equal, nor were Africa-Americans. (I also believe any ethnicity was not considered equal to Caucasian correct?). If equality was in the pledge of allegiance this might have molded our childrens minds into believing that everyone should be equal...this would have made a huge step into making everyone have equal rights if it had occurred so early back in 1892.

So kind of like how Crain speaks about the Tom Thumb's Play-Book about how we need to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak to basically mold their minds into learning our language, the Pledge is like molding the children to understand the fundamental foundation our country believes in.. So children learn I pledge allegiance to the flag (meaning the flag must be important to our country), of the United States of America (the country they live in) and to the Republic for which it stands (Who the flag is for ), one nation (us), under God (he must be the superior one), Indivisible (The US is unstoppable), with liberty and justice for all (everyone should be nice and fair to everyone.) Just with that context alone it shows that words are key to anyone.

Some pro-life advocates recite the pledge the same except add, born and unborn to the end of the pledge while some liberals add with equality to between indivisible and liberty. Both of these changes could complete alter what goes on in my head. While equality would not alter in my head as much because we are equal now in the United States (technically), the born and unborn part would change my mind if it had been embedded at such a young age as well as for me to continuously say it for 180 days for 13 years of my life...while i am pro-choice I believe that if I had been put into this situation it might have changed my thoughts.

Oh hey thats way closer than it looked!

In both texts they spoke about maps. In Harley he spoke about how maps are deliberately altered, mostly for strategy while in Farman he spoke about Google Earth and how people can actually put in pictures as well as that country aerial maps can be taken off (Japan wanted this). This is more for privacy issues since its real pictures on whatever is going on a that moment..

So with the first PHYSICAL change of a map, I had no idea what to write about or an example that would work...then I got to thinking. As I worked at a Radio station this summer, we went to TONS of events, parades, fairs, etc. Each event had a map of some sort to show where we were located or where things were going on. Some booths looked bigger than others on the map, even though all the booths were the same size. I believe this is deliberate distortion. The more popular the company, or the more the company paid, it seemed the bigger the deal they were on the map. Even if two stage concerts were the same size, if one had a more popular artist, then that concert stage was bigger. This brought people more towards that booth, cause as most would think the bigger the booth or stage the more popular it must be! I think that is pretty straight forward on distortion.

Now when I think about digital maps...I think about my beloved iPhone <3...love this thing....anyways, the iPhone has a beloved feature called Maps! This is a GPS system so this is a common use besides just on the iPhone. Now the GPS system and Maps app on the iPhone finds where you are and takes you where you need to be. I think this is us definitely taking advantage of the social networking tools. If I miss a turn then I just re-route myself, GPS does it by itself.... It is a blessing and I think that physical maps are just going out of  business due to this new technology. If there has been a change, such as of location of a business or a change in traffic/closed roads, I can get past that through this technology. They can show me different routes to still get to the same location.

I definitely think maps will always be used, but with our technology they will definitely be used in a more high-tech way.