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Assignment Two - Stalking Rheingold
As I read through the postings, it was interesting how many times the thinking of certain thinkers emerged, such as Lessig, Bruns and Rheingold. Below are two word clouds using entries from the New...
View ArticleBooks Without Paper and Libraries Without Walls
Of the readings, three are the jumping off point for this posting. Bobbi Newman writes that people need libraries to take on the task of helping them become transliterate (" Libraries and Transliteracy...
View ArticleTransliteracy, information literacy, and librarians
Following a link trail from one of this week's readings led me to blogger and librarian Wilk's "philosophical library blog" Sense and Reference, where I found the very interesting Reorganizing Literacy...
View ArticleEbook Trends: Info Pro Perspectives
Given this week's lecture notes and readings, I thought you'd all find this of interest: <p><other/> </p>Video streaming by...
View ArticleSlactivism comment
This posting may be out of synch with our class discussions but I came across this blog today and it offers comment on slacktivism – the accusation that social media really does not effect change...
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Narrative Interventions in Photography
[Art by Simryn Gill, Photograph by Jonathan Teghtmeyer][Art by Carrie Mae Weems, Photograph by Jonathan Teghtmeyer]I had the opportunity the week before last to visit the Getty Center in Los Angeles,...
View ArticleWeek 11: Libraries and Transliteracy, Questions from Bobbi Newman
One of the questions I am repeatedly asked about transliteracy is - what are the set of skills for transliteracy? I understand where the asker is coming from - in a world where we base to much on...
View ArticleScreen reading versus paper
Yesterday at work I was discussing the issue of note taking in the classroom with a colleague. Very few of our students seem to take notes; some claim to use their smart phone and others will bring a...
View ArticleWeek 12: Writers and Publishing
What does it mean to publish in the web 2.0 world?Some key terms we will discuss during this session:digital storytellingaffordancesnew media platformsaudienceopen sourceprint on...
View ArticleWeek 12: Guest Lecture from Kate Pullinger
Is Literature Evolving? Kate PullingerPublishing is changing rapidly, and writing, reading and bookselling are changing with it, as is the book itself: there is no escaping this fact. While writers are...
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Does machinery inhibit artistic culture?
In 1927, at a time when new media like the radio, telephone and motion pictures were still novel and the television was just being invented, Aldous Huxley wrote an article in Harper’s magazine on ‘the...
View ArticleAssignment 3 - Remix Culture: Tensions in Vidding
“Vidders” make “vids” also known as fan videos or “fanvids” which are unauthorized videos using clips from TV shows or movies, set to a song. Surprisingly, vidding was first started in 1975 when a fan...
View ArticleFrom expert to anyone: the shift from encyclopedia to Wikipedia, and how it...
Assignment 3 – Question 3When Encyclopedia Britannica announced in March that it would no longer produce a print version, the organization promised in a blog post that the encyclopedia would live on,...
View ArticleWhen Publishing Changes, So Does Society: Medical Practice and Patient...
Assignment Three - Judith DyckThe introduction of the Gutenberg printing press amplified the “amount and variety of what was available and accessible to readers” (Nutton, 2005, p. 426). This increased...
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NMN Assignment 3: The Evolution of Publishing
NMN Assignment 3: The Evolution of Publishing, a set on Flickr.Traditional publishing methods are costly and force publishers to critically evaluate each submission to see if it is worth printing in...
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Assignment 3 - I'm my own publisher
I’m my own publisher Aldous Huxley, 1930. “In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit...
View ArticleImpact of publishing on education
Expanding my transliteracy skills has been a bonus in this class, albeit a frustrating one at times. But as a teacher, it is imperative that I do this - as my assignment clearly concludes in its review...
View ArticleAssignment 3 - Remix or Plagiarim?
In 2010, seventeen year old Helene Hegemann captured the hearts and minds of her fellow Germans with her debut novel, Axolotl Roadkill. Hegemann already showed promise at an early age: She debuted her...
View Article“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine” – REM, 2006
"[C]ivilization has been dominated at different stages by various media of communication such as clay, papyrus, parchment, and paper produced first from rags and then from wood. Each medium has its...
View ArticleAssignment 3 - Transliteracy, Time, Etc.,
It's a little ironic that a trans-illiterate like me -- I bring a basic inability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media, or, at least, I can't trying to do so hit a...
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Values of a Networked World
In last spring’s 502 Group Transactions course, one of the assignments was to write a book review of Scott Klosofsky’s 2011 text, A Manager’s Guide to Social Media. It was one of three books that...
View ArticleResearch on texting
Just saw this report - three Canadian Universities, including Simon Fraser, Ottawa and Montreal think texting is making us more creative....
View ArticleWeek 13: Review and Conclusions
Week 13: Review and ConclusionsNarratives can be published in various online ways: VoicethreadsSkypeBlogsWikisSocial Bookmarks/FolksonomyDiigoEvernoteFlickrNetvibesTwitterE-mailGoogle...
View ArticleSynthesis?
I usually like to take some time at the end of a course and attempt some synthesis for my own purposes - to aid retention, and so that I have a hope of answering the "So, what was that thing you were...
View ArticleRight Content, Right Medium
Throughout the term, we have been discussing literacy and transliteracy revolving around the question of how we have changed the way we consume and produce content in an era of advancing communications...
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