This week’s reading by Jay David Bolter discusses The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing. Amongst many things, Bolter addresses the changes we have faced from hand writing to the printing press, and from the printing press to the computer. In the beginning of the piece he describes writing as a technology for collective […]

Sitting in a tutorial, a very interesting question came up from a fellow media student. While we were all brainstorming questions he asked us ‘what is the validity of the internet?’ I know that we are all very trusting of things we read on the net but should we be? When we were learning and […]