User:Alexander Roidl/bookscanning

transformative processes

• transforming knowledge
• creating new file
• creating new »content«
• new possibilities of processing (OCR, analysis…)
• revealing information layers (printing technique)
• turning an analog medium into a digital file
  • change of object, color, pages, reading flow
  • Kantian model of the book (object, that’s sellable & knowledge)
• display is changing

• reproducing the reproduced (Walter Benjamin -> next level)

light-sensitive color

• print with light-sensitive color

-> see nothing / image when scanned or -> see the text when scanned, but it disappears after scanning

scanning as a tool

• creating graphics / visuals out of scanned pages

-> draw an image from a scanned book pages -> AI? drawing images / abstract / concrete / emotion

• missuse -> new unexpected results

big data

• generating new data

(endless data generation)

bubbles

• we live within a given framework
• selection of texts leads to an opinion
• filter
• idea: chatbot trained only from scanned book pages
• sherry turkle?

Research

Transformative processes.

When scanning books what happens?

• Transforming knowledge
• creating new file
• creating new »content«
• new possibilities of processing (OCR, analysis…)
  • revealing informationlayers (printing technique)
• turning an analog medium into a digital file
• display is changing

Access to…

• digitale books
• analog books
• who has access / who hasn't and why?
• how easy is access (com. digital / analog)

Adding/Deleting/Altering information of existing books

• (piracy - connected to anonymous )

How digitisation is changing the view on sexism/feminism

• books become searchable and more connected

Sources

The Mass Digitization of Books: http://www.kcoyle.net/jal-32-6.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Chartier

Discussion on Googles Book Scanning http://www.firstmonday.org/article/view/2101/2037

NYT article on Google’s bookscanning & bookscanning in general http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html

(Video) What is a book by Roger Chartier http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/b7ff39a973534d4c9583fcd935ee2c581d

Article on Roger Chartier and the past & Future of books http://www.booksandideas.net/The-Book-Its-Past-Its-Future.html