Shields Reading — Collage
This was the first time I’d read, or even thought about writing in, collage. It reminded me of a book of quotes, but then I read “355 – I hate quotations”, which I found funny He gave a lot of… Continue Reading
Readings
Interactive narratives
Upon reading the first extract from The End of Books — Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives I was instantly reminded of the Pottermore website launched by J.K. Rowling in 2011. The site provides an interactive way to experience… Continue Reading
Ted Nelson Reading Reflection
My first thought when reading the Ted Nelson extract is that hypertext is much better suited to an online platform than a book. It seems much more practical for a book to be presented in a sequential order, instead of… Continue Reading
Lawrence Lessig: Laws that choke creativity TED Talk
Having studied piracy and copyright last year as part of a communications subject, I was introduced to the work of Lawrence Lessig. I referred to Lessig’s book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and… Continue Reading
Is the internet making us unsocial?
After reading the extract from David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, I began to consider whether the web makes me more or less social. This question can be difficult to answer, considering I have… Continue Reading
Piracy and copyright
Following on from last week’s readings and discussion on copyright, I decided to do a little research into piracy and some opinions surrounding it, using Game of Thrones as an example. Quick facts: The term ‘piracy’ was first used in… Continue Reading