General Notes:
- Intent can be lost through context – eg. changing the tone of a sentence changes its meaning
- Frued – conscious vs. unconscious
- Semiotics – notion of a signifier and a signified – signifier = the body; signified = what it means
- “What do you buy at a butchers? A chop. What do you do at a green light? Stop.” – semiotics, tricking brain
- word gets meaning by the absence of other words which could have been used instead – why it’s the appropriate choice. Only means something by virtue of what it isn’t
- When you talk, can never be certain that receiver knows what you mean
- Language is driven by ‘slippage’ and difference
- Can never guarantee arrival or intent of a message
- Book doesn’t die with the author
- Treat readable things as having personalities – intent of author/creator is irrelevant, it’s how you read it
- Learning how to read against the intent of the text
Is blogging a form of narcissism?
- Creating an online persona/identity
- Narcissism = perfectionism?
- Egocentric = self-obsessed
- People liking your things on social media – obsessing over yourself through your profile, having your views confirmed, etc.
- Texts and emails can be interpreted wrong – sarcasm lost, or put on, etc.
- Lack of empathy online at times – lost through written text – impersonal
- Traditional notion of privacy is lost – not just online, but in everyday life – eg. you can overhear private phone conversations on the train or in public, people reading other’s text messages
- Have to assume that everything online is 100% public
- Data-trails we leave
- Everyone has the ‘right to be forgotten’- – privacy issue
- Facebook (and other social network sites) is a surveillance module – only need to know this stuff to target advertisements
- in terms of network literacy: need to know what you’re signing up for, what privacy is going to be breeched, etc.
1. Which is more important in making a great book, form or content?
- Book: the Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy Gentlemen – directly addresses reader – mid 1700s
- Form of a book generally has a strict structure, but author does have control over this
- Electronically, authors give up a lot of control over story order
- Soap opera – repeats points, narrative controlled by form
- Music is a from that also uses repetition – not giving up authorial control, but conform to from in how you tell a story
- Not necessarily a connection between digital and networked
