question
Why do paper journalers never even mention screen journalers and why do screen journalers never mention paper journalers? It never even occurs to either party. When the paper journaler mentions “on-line” journals the assumption is
images of paper journals.
A definition of the inherent threshold between paper and screen is lurking here.
familiar navigation, inherent art
old future persists
“Loss of the book medium, loss of its credibility and usefulness, is possible. Due to an increasingly specific electronic query the text delivery systems must react on-demand at the page, paragraph or word level with precise extracts. Reader attention is then paced to fragments and webs of information. Request of a complete book unit is considered unnecessary. In this environment the paradox of book preservation is retaining formal conceptual works for fleeting, fragmentary access! The mismatch of book delivery units and electronic queries challenges the book medium.” February, 2001
(more on the leaf master)
story of the book
Let’s consider the attractor prospects of three themes; (1.) the making of books, (2.) the art and future of the book and (3.) the history of diverse book cultures.
(1.) The making of books includes the crafts and technologies of papermaking, writing and printing and bookbinding. These are the museum-like genres of presentation and include very dynamic activities such as paper sheet forming by hand or the miraculous eleven second mechanical cycle of the Linotype.
(2.) The art and future of the book crosses the boundaries of traditional graphic arts and computer arts and crosses between the book as utilitarian device and the book as art. Likewise, the technologies span from origami to electronic ink. Of particular interest is the role of the print book in future libraries and book stores and the interaction of electronic reading devices with the persistent paper book
(3.) The history of diverse book cultures includes studies such as the sociology and history of reading behaviors. Such abstractions have some vivid episodes in the history of our region such as those of early Mormonism, or the Pietists of the Amanas or adventures reflected in homesteaders guides and journals. This growing field of book studies provides insight and perspective to the current churn of media distribution and delivery technologies.
(FotB and
Iowa Book Works are on a municipal task force to propose the
STORIES exposition of Literacy, Literature and Language; an I-80 tourist attractor development.)
new age reading
The publishers’ device of including a CD in a printed book or URLs in a print bibliography have been bodily rejected by the print media. What enrichments have been problematic to screen presentation? Here we can see the problems that proliferation of channels brought to television, inducing a viewer behavior that disrupted sustained programming. The computer screen in essence has naturally induced a deconstructive reading behavior exemplified by dispersive linking and cultivating counter skills of deselection and inattention.
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