Observation: Compares writing to music as a structure. Music is similar to text because both can be shown through visual notes. Uses a picture of two paths. A reader chooses her path through the book by being able to peak in the back of the book. Media lets you choose your path. They showed a comparison between printed text and digital text.
Infer: The reader has an advantage when reading.The group focuses on writing does not need to have a specific structure. Writing is now made to suit a person specific structure of writing. In todays world, linear method is obsolete in writing. Text no longer has limits. Dialogue is continuously improving with technology by being more interacting. In todays world, we have dialogues in Facebook, Twitter, Texting, Email, Print, etc. Before these new dialogues our comments were private and were hard to share. You would put your notes and comments on the empty spaces on the paper. Now with the internet you can easily just comment on the wall of Facebook, Blogs, Journals easily. The writer cannot only be the one to see it but the world is also an audience too.
Questions:
1. If we get to choose any path we want, want happens if we go the wrong way?
2. Why don't you think we should have a guide?
3. Aren't there too many paths in the world now that technology has been born?
4. Do we create all these different types of writing because we get bored with all the other ones?
5. Why do you think we are going back to visuals when in the early centuries they changed to print?
6. Do you think we should of just stayed with out linear method of writing?
7. Why does Bolter compare writing to music?
I like your question 1. I worry about this, too. If I am, as reader, picking the path, can't I make a mistake and get lost? It makes me feel anxious or insecure. What about the writer's intention? Doesn't that matter?
ReplyDelete5 - I think we are going back to visuals because we have found new and fresh ways of presenting them through new technology with graphics and video.
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1
ReplyDeleteI don't think that there really is a right or a wrong way. Maybe you are going a different way than what the writer intended or another reader, but writing and words aren't going to mean the same thing to everyone. The idea that the internet lets the viewer choose their own path through the endless amonts of links is just one part to the evolution of writing and technology.