funny how, even though we've gone very different ways in school, we ended up on a similar (digital) path. my master's thesis is all about digitization-- what it means that we're moving texts and literature from books onto computer screens.
can you write code? i can only THEORIZE about people coding and what it might mean for us as a culture. I tried to learn MySQL and php last year, but it didn't go very well.
This video was an assignment. The RRC stuff at the end was mandatory. I totally suck at code, but learning that there are increasingly easy ways to get around it. It ends up being like blogging*, hehe.
So what does it mean to move books to computer screens? I'm doing a (kind of) similar project.
*It seems that way. I'm not quite there yet though. We're learning about themes/templates this term.
Well, cognitively speaking, our minds do different things when we're looking at words on a computer screen, in a book, or when we're listening to them.
So, on some very basic levels, it actually makes us THINK differently.
I'm focusing more on what it's doing to publishing as an industry-- academic and popular.
Surprisingly (or maybe not), the computer age is actually making us a MORE literate culture than we were. A generation ago, or less, we got a lot of our info from TV and movies. Now people are reading and writing a lot more again, in digital form, and getting their info that way.
The flow of information staggers me. I feel easily distracted when the homework machine is also the "everybody i know" machine (fb, blogs, email), as well as chess and dinner recipes on youtube,=P. Tutorials are awesome. Also, it's too easy to say shit off the cuff and then have written a 4 page apology before the person checks their mail. hehehe.
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very nice! I like the edits, A+
Love it!!!
=D
This is so great!!
Well done.
Thanks! =D
A lot of info in 2 min! Very well done
unrelated....where do I click to post now??
right side of green bar at top. hover over to see what does what.
might need to sign in first to see buttons
awesome! is it a promo for red river?
funny how, even though we've gone very different ways in school, we ended up on a similar (digital) path. my master's thesis is all about digitization-- what it means that we're moving texts and literature from books onto computer screens.
can you write code? i can only THEORIZE about people coding and what it might mean for us as a culture. I tried to learn MySQL and php last year, but it didn't go very well.
This video was an assignment. The RRC stuff at the end was mandatory. I totally suck at code, but learning that there are increasingly easy ways to get around it. It ends up being like blogging*, hehe.
So what does it mean to move books to computer screens? I'm doing a (kind of) similar project.
*It seems that way. I'm not quite there yet though. We're learning about themes/templates this term.
Well, cognitively speaking, our minds do different things when we're looking at words on a computer screen, in a book, or when we're listening to them.
So, on some very basic levels, it actually makes us THINK differently.
I'm focusing more on what it's doing to publishing as an industry-- academic and popular.
Surprisingly (or maybe not), the computer age is actually making us a MORE literate culture than we were. A generation ago, or less, we got a lot of our info from TV and movies. Now people are reading and writing a lot more again, in digital form, and getting their info that way.
The flow of information staggers me. I feel easily distracted when the homework machine is also the "everybody i know" machine (fb, blogs, email), as well as chess and dinner recipes on youtube,=P. Tutorials are awesome. Also, it's too easy to say shit off the cuff and then have written a 4 page apology before the person checks their mail. hehehe.
J.W. did you figure out how to post?
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