MachineMachine /stream - tagged with print http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 “Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for communication: templates that guide, unavailing or not, concrete processes of human interaction, mass and interpersonal.”

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James Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society

The Shannon and Weaver Model - The Late Age of Print

 ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:21:08 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 “The Shannon and Weaver Model” http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2012/02/20/the-shannon-and-weaver-model//the-shannon-and-weaver-model-the-late-age-of-print “The Shannon and Weaver Model” by Ted Striphas: http://t.co/e8WireZf ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:51:16 -0700 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2012/02/20/the-shannon-and-weaver-model//the-shannon-and-weaver-model-the-late-age-of-print Life after Papyrus: The Swerve http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/17762040844/life-after-papyrus/los-angeles-review-of-books-life-after-papyrus Life after Papyrus: A review of Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" : http://t.co/Ck96u2WN #books #clinamen ]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:05:50 -0700 http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/17762040844/life-after-papyrus/los-angeles-review-of-books-life-after-papyrus E-books Can't Burn http://thebrowser.com/articles/e-books-cant-burn/e-books-cant-burn-best-of-the-moment-the-browser E-books Can't Burn: Could it be that ebooks bring us closer to the essence of the literary experience? @nybooks http://t.co/IMoUdFtP ]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:20 -0700 http://thebrowser.com/articles/e-books-cant-burn/e-books-cant-burn-best-of-the-moment-the-browser Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing? http://blog.oup.com/2011/07/content-free-prose/ There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact the opposite is true: thanks to computers, writing is thriving. More people are writing more than ever, and this new wave of everyone’s-an-author bodes well for the future of writing, even if not all that makes its way online is interesting or high in quality.

But two new digital developments, ebook spam and content farms, now threaten the survival of writing as we know it. ]]> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:46:50 -0700 http://blog.oup.com/2011/07/content-free-prose/ Content For Users on the Move http://www.printmag.com/Article/Content-for-Users-on-the-Move What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind that says more about when I came of age than about the content itself. When I think of books, my mind retrieves an image of my grandparents’ bookshelves, which I used to browse after school as a child. Records? I see the CD stacks of my teenage years, collected from local music shops and trading with friends. And somehow, thinking about movies still produces images of VHS tapes and memories… ]]> Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:35:42 -0700 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Content-for-Users-on-the-Move How to survive the age of distraction http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-to-survive-the-age-of-distraction-2301851.html The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It's being chewed by the e-book. It's being gored by the death of the bookshop and the library. And most importantly, the mental space it occupied is being eroded by the thousand Weapons of Mass Distraction that surround us all. It's hard to admit, but we all sense it: it is becoming almost physically harder to read books.

In his gorgeous little book The Lost Art of Reading – Why Books Matter… ]]> Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:21:36 -0700 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-to-survive-the-age-of-distraction-2301851.html How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and finest thinkers http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2011.07-media-divine-inspiration/1/ APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing that the late media sage still has the power to provoke and infuriate. Connoisseurs of Canadian television should track down a 1968 episode of a CBC program called The Summer Way, a highbrow cultural and political show that once featured a half-hour debate about technology between McLuhan and the novelist Norman Mailer.

Both freewheeling public intellectuals with a penchant for making wild statements, Mailer and McLuhan… ]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:16:25 -0700 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2011.07-media-divine-inspiration/1/ New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/104691 Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken up by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox who hacked together an English version in 1970. Lem, himself a fluent English speaker, was always scathing of the double translation. Something he believed added to the universal misunderstanding of his greatest work. After the relsease of two film versions of the… ]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:29:33 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/104691 Post-Artifact Books and Publishing http://craigmod.com/journal/post_artifact/ We will always debate:
the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display;
the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting;
location by page, location by paragraph.

But really, who cares? 3

Hunting surface analogs between the printed and the digital book is a dangerous honeypot. There is a compulsion to believe the magic of a book lies in its surface.

In reality, the book worth considering consists only of relationships. Relationships between ideas and recipients. Between writer and reader. Between readers and other readers… ]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:50:47 -0700 http://craigmod.com/journal/post_artifact/ Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3340 While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the technological, social, behavioural, and neuroscientific impacts that the Internet is having on the practice of reading. A particular focus is given to the reading behaviour of emerging university students, especially within Canada and the United States. A brief overview is provided of the recent transformation of academic libraries into providers of online digital text in addition to printed books and other materials, before looking at research on college students’… ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:36:26 -0700 http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3340 Technology Of Writing http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2733 Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources ]]> Wed, 11 May 2011 11:03:29 -0700 http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2733 When the King Saved God http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/05/hitchens-201105 Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England” itself was becoming more of a nation-state and less an offshore dependency of Europe, an extraordinary committee of clergymen and scholars completed the task of rendering the Old and New Testaments into English, and claimed that the result was the “Authorized” or “King James” version. This was a fairly conservative attempt to stabilize the Crown and the kingdom, heal the breach between competing English and Scottish Christian sects, and bind… ]]> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:57:36 -0700 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/05/hitchens-201105 The Font of the Hand http://canopycanopycanopy.com/11/the_font_of_the_hand JUST AS IN OUR DAY a fervid minority denounces the digitization of literary experience, fifteenth-century literati responded to their own depredations. In 1492, Johannes Trithemius, Abbot of Sponheim, wrote De Laude Scriptorum, "In Praise of Scribes,” a polemic addressed to Gerlach, Abbot of Deutz. Trithemius’s intention was to uphold scribal preeminence while denouncing the temptations of the emerging press: “The printed book is made of paper and, like paper, will quickly disappear. But the scribe working with parchment ensures lasting remembrance for himself and for his text.” Trithemius asserted that movable type was no substitute for solitary transcription, as the… ]]> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:23:39 -0700 http://canopycanopycanopy.com/11/the_font_of_the_hand The Library in the New Age http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will become of research libraries in the face of technological marvels such as Google?

How to make sense of it all? I have no answer to that problem, but I can suggest an approach to it: look at the history of the ways information has been communicated. Simplifying things radically, you could say that there have been four fundamental changes in information technology since… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:03:34 -0700 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 400 years of the King James Bible http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7171739.ece The King James Bible is a book that attracts superlatives. To David Norton it is “the most important book in English religion and culture”, to Gordon Campbell “the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world” and “the most enduring embodiment of Scripture in the English language”. To Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett it is simply the Bible translation that defines Bible translations: “All other versions still exist, as it were, in its shadow. It has shaped, formed and moulded the language with which the others must speak”.

No one present at the birth of the KJB, least… ]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:43:31 -0700 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7171739.ece Do writers need paper? http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/10/books-electronic-publishing/ Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium too. Music, film, newspapers, blogs, videogames—it’s the nature of a digital society that all these come at us in parallel, through the same channels, consumed simultaneously or in seamless sequence. ]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:05:00 -0700 http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/10/books-electronic-publishing/ Night Waves: Is the Book Dead? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v4s8v/Night_Waves_Is_the_Book_Dead/ Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that tackles the vexed question: Is the book dead? As e-books outsell hardbacks for the first time is reading itself facing a future that is empowered or impoverished?

The venue is Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland, which famously occupies a former railway station. Onstage with Philip will be guests writer David Almond, author of the prize-winning novel Skellig, Chris Meade of the Institute for the Future of the… ]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:10:00 -0700 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v4s8v/Night_Waves_Is_the_Book_Dead/ Cover story http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/08/29/cover_story/?page=full In the beginning, before there was such a thing as a Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg laid out his rows of metal type and brushed them with ink and, using the mechanism that would change the world, produced an ordinary little schoolbook. It was probably an edition of a fourth-century grammar text by Aelius Donatus, some 28 pages long. Only a few fragments of the printed sheets survive, because no one thought the book was worth keeping.

"Now had he kept to that, doing grammars...it probably would all have been well,” said Andrew Pettegree, a professor of modern… ]]> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:16:00 -0700 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/08/29/cover_story/?page=full first issue of rattle journal http://rattlejournal.org.uk/issue-one-contents/

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first issue of rattle journal

I have an article in the first issue of rattle journal, available now

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