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Revision as of 14:17, 5 February 2018
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)
- Chartier
- 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