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..
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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.
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.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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.
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.
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