“Old media are not being displaced. Rather, their functions and status are shifted by the introduction of new technologies” (14). Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. OVC as a Medium As I’ve discussed in the passed, while my research on ...
Continue reading ...“A drug of ambiguous power may heal or poison.” - highly paraphrased Derrida O'Donnell, J. J. (2000). Avatars of the word: From papyrus to cyberspace: Harvard University Press. A point that O’Donnell raises early in this text is the public-vs-private setting of the pre-Gutenberg writer, who...
Continue reading ...McLuhan, M. (1968). The gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968. This text, obviously enough by title, largely addresses the effect of the Gutenberg press on both oral and chirograph communication. There is much to this that will be of use to me a...
Continue reading ...McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. In this chapter, McLuhan begins by noting that movies, which for the purposes of this post only certain aspects refer also to video, merges the mechanical and the organic in a spe...
Continue reading ...I am aware that I've been getting many new readers to this blog over the past few weeks and months. Furthermore, I realize that someone embarking on this blog anew might be at least somewhat lost, as if opening a text to the middle page and beginning to read. I frequently reference the "OVC" and the...
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