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.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
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.
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.
Friday, October 8, 2010
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.
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.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Piracy...is anything truly ever said by anyone?
In both the articles of The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book and Thomas's article we see that piracy has always been a problem. In the Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book the author explains that back in the day it was roughly 90 to 1 on stolen text material. Thats an extremely high number. Thomas's reading was mostly about the 13th century and talked about the reproductions of material where when they would write a book, re-write it, because in the 13th century they didn't have printers, names could be changed on the author, having multiple others for one story. They as well kind of changed the stories of the book at times and what the outcome was. This is all cheating though nowadays.
Now my argument is that it is not the same back in the day with the consequences that occur, but I do agree people do the same time of stuff as they did back in the day. Now when it comes to consequences, back in the day you could not be kicked out of school or even arrested as you can today ( if the fine is big enough ) . This piracy definitely brings me back to music piracy and movie piracy - I mean they are technically writers - but I feel like that this is another difference because this form of piracy can get you into jail and rack up fines like crazy...anyways...back to the main point...so the consequences are very different nowadays because If I were to plagiarize and got caught by a teacher I would fail the paper, maybe be kicked out of the class, and kicked out of the college. If I were to be caught by the website, book, paper, etc I took it from, thats copyright infringement aka i'm getting sued up the ass. The consequences are severe nowadays.
However, I do agree that people still do the same things as they did back in the day. People that pirate stolen text all the time and make it as there own, its wrong and most get caught; however, lots don't and get away with stealing someones hard work (cough cough Vanilla Ice..)- he got caught though. People also change a few words in the paragraph and expect that to now be there work...uh nope not the case. Most people however think so and basically just copy the text. If not cited then this is plagiarism a form of piracy.
I think the moral of this subject is just not to do it...
Now my argument is that it is not the same back in the day with the consequences that occur, but I do agree people do the same time of stuff as they did back in the day. Now when it comes to consequences, back in the day you could not be kicked out of school or even arrested as you can today ( if the fine is big enough ) . This piracy definitely brings me back to music piracy and movie piracy - I mean they are technically writers - but I feel like that this is another difference because this form of piracy can get you into jail and rack up fines like crazy...anyways...back to the main point...so the consequences are very different nowadays because If I were to plagiarize and got caught by a teacher I would fail the paper, maybe be kicked out of the class, and kicked out of the college. If I were to be caught by the website, book, paper, etc I took it from, thats copyright infringement aka i'm getting sued up the ass. The consequences are severe nowadays.
However, I do agree that people still do the same things as they did back in the day. People that pirate stolen text all the time and make it as there own, its wrong and most get caught; however, lots don't and get away with stealing someones hard work (cough cough Vanilla Ice..)- he got caught though. People also change a few words in the paragraph and expect that to now be there work...uh nope not the case. Most people however think so and basically just copy the text. If not cited then this is plagiarism a form of piracy.
I think the moral of this subject is just not to do it...
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