Publics and Publishing in transition
Welcome to ARTS2090 for 2012
Welcome! You’ll find lots of ways into interesting material on the history, theory and contemporary state of publishing on this site. We use contemporary media to learn about contemporary media. We’ve tweaked the course since last year to make sure it’s keeping up with the times. There is a full course guide with live links. [...]
Akhnaton and writing/abstraction/religion
Yesterday, in my overly large overview of the history of publishing, I skipped through a story about the ancient Egyptians, religion and writing. Some of this came out in a rather confusing way. Indeed I got a very basic point wrong (mixing up the names of the god and the Pharoah). However, since some of [...]
Noosphere
This is a kind of visualization by Tatiana Plakhova … more a visualization of a concept of data, than data itself. You can find more on it here. “Noosphere“—the idea that there is a kind of atmosphere of human thought that evolves, especially with technlogy—was developed (from the work of Bergson, Vernadsky and others before [...]
Linked Open Data
A nice video that quickly and clearly explains why linked data might be a good idea and how you might be able to join in with your own data.
Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu
Still kind of mindblowing really—
Ted Nelson speaking in Sydney this Wednesday
Ted Nelson, one of the most interesting people in the history of personal computing, is speaking at Sydney University this week. His topic: “The Computer World Could Be Completely Different“. He is a radical thinker about publishing, to say the least. Quote from his web site: “Before the personal computer, and before the Web, there [...]
Arcade Fire Interactive
If you’ve never seen this Arcade Fire interactive from a little while back, it’s really interesting, in itself, and as an example of highly innovative publishing and marketing. You need to view it in the Chrome browser though … also a specific and unusual constitution of a public through publishing that is even subtler than [...]
Elizabeth Eisenstein on Printing and Disruption
Elizabeth Eisenstein is arguably the best known scholar on printing and its social impacts. Here is some video of her talking about print/text and disruption.
Spiral and Spokes Model for the Process of Research
This is a great post on Glen Fuller’s blog about the basics of research as it occurs. He takes up Bob Hodge’s excellent spiral and spokes model, which tells us we are always in a (non-linear) middle of our research. Well worth looking at.
Domino Project and “Poke the Box”
I’m not sure what I think about all this … but this is all about transforming publishing, and the Domino Project is in league with Amazon, not to mention Seth Goden, who’s a bit of a publishing guru for some people. And there’s a free download for those who want to get their own project [...]
Your Blog and Your Tutor’s Email Address
Many apologies if there is some confusion. Obviously you can’t send the web address (URL) for your blog (as the course outline requires you to) to your tutor if you don’t yet have their email! This is fine. Your tutor will give you this email address in the tutorials in Week Two. You can send [...]
Andrew’s ARTS2090 links
- Knowledge – Inside Search – GoogleTags: Google arts2090 arts3091 […]
- Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg's BibleTags: gutenberg 209030912013 printing arts2090 […]
- The State Of 3D Printing Is Beyond What Sci-Fi… | Bit RebelsTags: 3dprinting arts2090 […]
- Is 3D printing the key to Utopia? | Technology | The ObserverTags: 3dprinting arts2090 […]
- Climate RealityTags: climatechange reality climatechangeaction arts2090 […]
- The 23 Things: The 23 ThingsTags: arts2090 arts3091 digitalhumanities educationresearchnetwork internet 209030912013 […]
- How the internet can read your mind | Dr Shock MD PhDTags: internet mindreading arts3091 arts2090 privacy […]
- Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World's Best Information Designers | Brain PickingsTags: infographics visualization arts2090 […]
- “Things Happen” – Watch The Video | Connect the DotsTags: climatechange arts2090 visualization […]
- Read the Printed WordTags: printed arts2090 publishing […]