OK, I’ve been away from here for a while, tending to teaching and other duties, including this new blog/Web site design, which is still not quite complete as of this date. I have not been hugely active in blogging on digital orality since last Fall. However, if all goes as planned, this blog is ab...
Continue reading ...Parker presents a few characteristics of Powerpoint that do not seem to be as unique as she suggests. She states that PowerPoint breaks with the usual idea of a software application as a tool (instead a car, suit of clothes, or plastic surgery?) in that you can take it with you, you are judged by i...
Continue reading ...Lev Manovich sites the five principles of New Media as Numerical Presentation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. It is the second category, modularity, with which I seem to take issue. Manovich calls modularity the "fractal structure of new media." This is to say that many exampl...
Continue reading ...After reading Manovich’s chapter on this topic, my concept of defining new media is a bit fuzzy. I can provide examples of new media tools and features, but of increasing worth is the ability to provide a list of characteristics of what is and what is not new media. Manovich addressed exactly thes...
Continue reading ...Barry, Ann Marie Seward. 1997. “Perception and Visual Common Sense.” Visual Intelligence. Albany: SUNY Press _________________ Here is the Q&A for this Barry article on Perception and Visual Common Sense: 1.On p. 66, Barry notes that "it is not enough to be 'visually literate.'" How doe...
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