FotB manifesto
Digital discovery, research, and connectivity augment the relationships between books. These resources are similar to traditional human resources that
construct meaning and new content between print materials. The senario in which digital resources supplant print resources has not occurred. The explanation for the overlaps including “inside the book” engines is that the digital resources integrate and therefore can mimic all the reading modes. But their superiority, beyond the technological achievement of simultaneously screening verbal, written and print modes into a readable matrix, is overrated. For one thing the richness of expression of the visual/verbal mode is not approached, the conceptual exercise of the written mode is not fully required and the permanence and systematic accumulation of the print mode are not achieved. Digital research is still an accessory of the parent reading modes.
Writing Space, the 3rd edition
I am still trying to find one sentence in the 2nd edition that is similar to any sentence in the 1st. This is an extreme hypertextual experience. I wish to get back to some precepts of the 1st edition but cannot find them in the 2nd.
“If computers do embody intelligence, then they do so just as printed books and manuscripts have done.”
Jay Bolter appears to have shifted from this premise of the 1st edition (1991) only because the increasing connectivity that has emerged by the 2nd edition (2001) appeared too expansive and responsive not to consider it a superceding mode.
The future of the book position here is that the book is refashioning cyberspace not the other way around. Connectivity and electronic search is infilling meanings between printed books. The achievement of connectivity only provides a composite screening of all reading modes. It merges reading modes of orality, writing and print but only augments these parent modes.
***” and that is exactly what we are going to do.”
The truth is the power to change this country is in your hands, not in mine. You have the power to take back the democratic party, give us new leadership so we can beat these republicans again. You have the power to take back our country so that the flag of the United States is no longer the sole property of John Ashcroft and Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell, it belongs to every single one of us again. And together we have the power to take the White House back in 2004.”
We continue to work to motivate caucus participation here in Iowa. Howard Dean will make his last campaign visit to Iowa one week from Monday right here in Coralville. He must then move on to campaign in other states. He will return to Iowa again as President because we are going to elect him ourselves.