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Tag Archives: Bolter
Final Project: Social Semiotic Theory of Multimodality
To publish my project, I explored with the blogging tool Serendipity. Please visit my space here, where you will find my theoretical paper, my concept map, and a few other resources related to my topic. The story of how I installed … Continue reading
Posted in Major Project, Technology
Tagged Bolter, culture, Kress, literacy, social, technology, theory
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The Development of the Electronic Book
***This is a second draft of this commentary. I frustratingly lost my first one after it was done and this is my attempt to reconstitute it from memory! The Kindle, the Nook, the Bebook. These are but three examples of … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary 3
Tagged Bolter, ebook, ereader, hypertext, remediation of print
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A Commentary on Bolter’s Chapter ” The Breakout of the Visual”
In the chapter called “The Breakout of the Visual”, Bolter (2001) continues to speak about the process of remediation, specifically about the current power struggle between visual media and text. Bolter describes a battle between word and image over which … Continue reading
From Handwriting to Typewriting
“It is probable that longhand will persist-at least until inventions have made the typewriter as easy to carry as a pen or pencil and within financial reach of all.” Alice E. Benbow, 1925 (as cited in Templin, 1960, p. 164) … Continue reading
Posted in Research Paper
Tagged Bolter, Chandler, communication, handwriting, Ong, text, tools, typewriting, writing, written word
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The Rise of Cinema
Theatre had been popular for thousands of years before the advent of film. No doubt theatre had a profound influence on the film industry but photography had a major influence as well. The magic lantern from the sixteenth century was … Continue reading
The Shift from Scroll to Codex to Print
Shifts in communication mediums throughout history have affected how people interact with each other and text. This commentary will discuss how the transitions from scroll to codex to print affected reading, writing and communication. Communication remained largely oral in ancient … Continue reading
Technology as Social Need
“Wherever we start in such a chain of cause and effect, we can identify an interaction between technical qualities and social constructions – an interaction so intimate that it is hard to see where the technical ends and the social … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Bolter, Kurzweil, need, social, technological determinism, technological singularity
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Commentary 3 – Web 2.0: Creating New Students and New Educators
Schools are equipped with computers and wifi, and students are coming to school as experts in these new technologies (Alexander, 2008). As students become more expert at web 2.0 tools such as blogging, social … Continue reading →