{"id":385,"date":"2009-09-14T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/14\/texts-are-material-artifacts-that-take-many-forms\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:23:01","slug":"texts-are-material-artifacts-that-take-many-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/14\/texts-are-material-artifacts-that-take-many-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Texts are Material Artifacts that Take Many Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kawaface\/272570799\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/82\/272570799_5c457e371c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kawaface\/272570799\/\">wwquotetattoo<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/kawaface\/\">kawaface<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Like technology, the word <em>text <\/em>is difficult define as its meaning is altered depending upon context and form of communication. I found the definition of text provided by Florida State University, a good starting point to understanding the relationship between of text and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexts are material artifacts that take many different forms: cave paintings, tattoos, stone tablets, clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, manuscript books, musical scores, maps, printed books, engravings, newspapers, photographs, films, DVDs, computers. Every kind of text is produced by a special technology, but all those technologies share a simple purpose: they were designed to supplement the fragile human mind by providing a more durable artificial memory system. Those technologically preserved and transmitted memories are the foundation of all human culture\u201d<br \/>\n(Emmerson et al., 2009, para. 1).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to finding this definition I had never given much thought to tattoos as text. Emmerson et al. (2009) refer to technologies that produce text as \u201cdurable artificial memory system[s]\u201d. Many people get tattoos as a permanent reminder of a special memory or person or a meaningful image, saying or word. Though I know many cultures use tattooing in traditional rituals, I had not considered the deeper implication of human skin as a vehicle for preserving and communicating information and memories. I choose the accompanying photo as it depicts tattoos of a person\u2019s family names as well as a Walt Whitman quote &#8211; meaningful to the person whose skin it is preserved on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emmerson, R., Gontarski, S.E., Taylor, G., Walters, L., &amp; Wiegand, W.A. (2009). <em>Pathways to excellence: History of text technologies (HOTT) from cave paintings to personal computers<\/em>. Retrieved September 13, 2009, from <a href=\"http:\/\/pathways.fsu.edu\/faculty\/hott\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pathways.fsu.edu\/faculty\/hott\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wwquotetattoo, originally uploaded by kawaface. Like technology, the word text is difficult define as its meaning is altered depending upon context and form of communication. I found the definition of text provided by Florida State University, a good starting point to understanding the relationship between of text and technologies. \u201cTexts are material artifacts that take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972],"tags":[989,5255,5335,6810],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-definition","tag-meaning","tag-tattoo","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}