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* The importance of the physicality of printed paper | * The importance of the physicality of printed paper | ||
* POD sees paper taking on attributes of digital media: instant, updatable, customizable | * POD sees paper taking on attributes of digital media: instant, updatable, customizable | ||
==chapter 4: The end of paper: can anything actually replace the printed page?== | |||
* "Rhetoric"/"propaganda mantra" (p.83) of e-publishers urges us to abandon space-consuming books, as mass digitization (Project Gutenberg, Google Books) becomes a reality. | |||
* Drawbacks of ebooks: clumsy hardware and proprietorial software culture (e.g. Kindle DRM, tracking, remote deletion etc) (p.88) | |||
* The return to "good old" book/magazine layout as the best interface, inserting multimedia rather than re-inventing whole design (e.g. iPad editions) (p.92-93) | |||
* Devices are emerging to display newspapers onscreen, AND to print out digital files - "to bring virtual, real-time content 'offscreen'" (p.97) | |||
* Various serious/experimental ways of distributing files: .pdf torrents, book scanning software... | |||
* Digital can learn from paper's long design history. Paper can learn from digital's atomization of content. (p.117) | |||
Revision as of 13:24, 23 October 2012
chapter 1
chapter 2: A History of Alternative Publishing Reflecting the Evolution of Print
- 20th century avant-garde/s re-imagined the book/magazine but didn't do away with it as a paradigm
- Dadaists, Futurists, Surrealists & Fluxus challenged how publications were composed & distributed
- Cheap new printing technology (mimeograph, Xerox) facilitated DIY publishing in 60s-80s
- Mail Art anticipated networked publishing of the WWW
- Digital content added to print media in 90s as 'bonus content' (e.g. free floppy disc with magazine)
- by 2000 print zines have been overtaken by blogs
- Fluxus artist Dick Higgins' prediction of 'intermedia' now a reality
chapter 3: The Mutation of Paper: Material Paper in Immaterial Times
- Printed newspapers dying, or adapting to new distribution models (e.g. Evening Standard: free, funded by ads)
- Need for periodicals to shift their focus to providing 'best of' summaries of yesterday's news
- The situation of online news: aggregation and 'atomising content' into user-curated feeds
- The emergence of 'predictive news' in the 24hr news environment, and artworks responding to it
- The importance of the physicality of printed paper
- POD sees paper taking on attributes of digital media: instant, updatable, customizable
chapter 4: The end of paper: can anything actually replace the printed page?
- "Rhetoric"/"propaganda mantra" (p.83) of e-publishers urges us to abandon space-consuming books, as mass digitization (Project Gutenberg, Google Books) becomes a reality.
- Drawbacks of ebooks: clumsy hardware and proprietorial software culture (e.g. Kindle DRM, tracking, remote deletion etc) (p.88)
- The return to "good old" book/magazine layout as the best interface, inserting multimedia rather than re-inventing whole design (e.g. iPad editions) (p.92-93)
- Devices are emerging to display newspapers onscreen, AND to print out digital files - "to bring virtual, real-time content 'offscreen'" (p.97)
- Various serious/experimental ways of distributing files: .pdf torrents, book scanning software...
- Digital can learn from paper's long design history. Paper can learn from digital's atomization of content. (p.117)