Archive for the 'Readings' Category
Oct
13
Week 11 reading.
October 13, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Galloway talks about the internet and the control that came with it. The reading is filled with a lot of complex terms. (BENEFITS OF PUTTING STRATEGY BEHIND ONLINE MARKETING FOR BUSINESS, taken from SpecialEyesGroup)
Oct
7
Narrative Vs Database
October 7, 2014 | Leave a Comment
The reading by Manovich talks about the difference of Narrative form and Database form. Narative form, which can be found in print and movies, belongs to the modern age. Whilst the Database form ( a structured form of data and is organised for a quick retrieval in computer) belongs to the post-modern age .
Oct
2
10th Symposium… Essay and Long tail.
October 2, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Can’t believe its week 10 already, just two more week to go! This week symposium Adrian and the rest of the tutor discussed how to make the final essay. They advised us to do in the reverse cone instead of the usual cone. Normally we use the ‘normal cone’ where we started the essay broadly […]
Sep
19
Watts and Networks
September 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment
One of this week reading is by Duncan Watts. Watts discussed how networks can be seen as a particular systems and explain how we as the audience could understand the behavior of individual component as well its collective behavior changes. The idea reaffirms that relationship between parts is more important and far more crucial that […]
Sep
10
Ugh Technical Determinism …
September 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment
In class today we were split to three groups to discuss about the reading by Murphie and Potts. Though we mainly just discussed the first two page, already there were a lot of theory and perception from so many different people. Though i’ve learned it before in my previous semester, I’ve found it interesting and […]
Sep
7
Books to E-books
September 7, 2014 | Leave a Comment
The Douglass reading for this week is long but interesting. He mainly talks how the future of books might be replaced by the hypertext book and be more interactive. (The Death of the Book by Ben Ehrenreich by A litquake tumblr) I believe that that is already starting. I’m an avid reader so I always keep […]
Aug
25
More Hypertexts and A web is not PRIVATE!
August 25, 2014 | Leave a Comment
One of the main reading for week 5 is by Landow who mention that how hypertext first started off for print dissemination to hang annotation and commentary. This is what we do nowadays when we write blogs or a web, we put the reference list or certain information in writing in the form of hypertext, rather […]
Aug
19
Literacy in writing or printing?
August 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment
One of the reading for this week by Bolter, talks about the difference in writing by hand and writing by machine/printing. He mention that we lose a part of our identity when we type rather than when we write, here he discussed how some of our personal nature is somewhat lost in the ever growing […]
Aug
18
Hypertext
August 18, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Nelson talks on ‘Hypertext’ as something which is non-sequential writing which means that the text written will not only stay in one place and talks about one thing, instead it will branch out and allow the readers to have a choice just like so many other things in the world do that to us too […]
Aug
15
What the Future Holds
August 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment
This weeks reading from As We May Think talks about the future machine, technology, and knowledge. The author Dr. Vannevar Bush, being a great doctor is very interested to the development of science and therefore the future machine that will help science growth, he discussed how technology has changed and how it continuously developed and […]