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THE UNBOUND BOOK - MAY 20th 2011
- before reading the book > reading/literacy as a craft
- the e-book is more than just a representation of text in a new medium
- the battle of books, the battle of the book business
- last comments are from : JOOST KIRCZ
SESSION 1 : what is a book?
- author -> text -> book -> reader -> receiver
- public readings > no text or book. the reader takes on the author's voice
- film : Farenheit 451
Arianne B.
- e-book publishing - how do you compete with a publisher like Apple?
- e-books are more ecologicaly friendly (Google uses lots of energy) (this is cutting corners...)
- having research about tech takes time. making laws takes time.
- "the digital revolution is not headed towards where we were told it was heading" (where is this? isn't this what we want?)
- "no one is interested in hearing the effects of this revolution"
- "digital immigrants are more proficient in performing a search than their kids, the digital natives" (???)
- Nicholas Carr : pulling quotes way out of context? (The Atlantic)
- Which proprety of physical books should be kept in thinking of digital books?
- "Multimedia should dissapear from / The editing of books should not be allowed"
- "Paper is durable, cheap, etc."
- Irreplacable properties : books are extensions of our memory. Apparently this is not feasible by digital books.
- "Smell, taste, form, etc."
Alan Liu : This is not a book
- "The end of the end of the book" Essay
- Collex / Open Journal Systems / PReE
- books are not books - they always need to be compared?
- books and e-books - 'long, permanent form of attention, permanent standard, authoritative'
- mbooks - media books - created and understood as media, not as a book
- "Books and scrolls : navigating the bible" Essay
- The bible was very hypertextual, irregular, non-linear and interactive (for any service, need bookmarks to move to different places)
- "When was linearity?" Essay
- digital book = metaphor for physical book - physical book is a metaphor for a book
- "Strange rain" iPad app
- what's important : not the future of books, but the future of long form attentions
- to do so, new methodological methods - some kind of telescope to look into the past & future
- "network archeology" / "media archeology"
- SNAC (social networks and archival contexts)
- RoSE - A research-oriented social environment
- "Agrippa" William Gibson (1992)
- The book is not a book (physical, e-book, m-book, etc.), it's the long form of attention. This is usually collective and plays over time.
- authority is moving into 'context' - if the context is clear, then things can be understood in relation to that context.
Miha Kovac, University of Ljubljana - What is a book?
- moving from a socialist structure for his publishing house into a market oriented structure
- a book is a technology - organize and store complex textual/visual info
- main historical embodiments : scroll, codex and digital file
- printed books - the physicality affects the size of the book : too thin and too thick are not printed
- printed texts are easier to preserve (???) - he is talking about the form, not the content...
- 'the cloud' - data centers are more secure, decentralized and numerous (soon) than libraries and bookstores - in a fingersnap, I can duplicate a book 10, 100, 1M times.
- having your physical book is part of your identity, it has a physical presence
- the storing of book content changes the way we think...pbook vs ebook
- linear reading / books professions / fixity and preservability
SESSION II : the unbounding of the book
Florian Cramer
- unbound vs boundless
- aaaaarg.org vs kindle
- e-books are very linear - developing apps for books is very hard to keep up to date technically
- the book has become much more stable because of the web, through the web - ex : the phonebook
- print books are slowly becoming objects of decoration - because of their physical attributes, not the content
- big disconnect between the embodiment and the content. e-books are becoming the cheap paperbacks from before
Gary Hall - coventry university
- Liquid, living books
- A writer writes texts, not books
- what are the options for the authors vs publishers
- 'perhaps we need to unbind modernity' and think differently
Bernhard Rieder - University van Amsterdam
- The book as data object
- what kind or arrangement for discovering and reading?
- what is the 'computational potential' of millions of books?
- exploring full-text metadata / connecting by means of data / capturing and inferring from user practices
- books become information (in 451 people become books - so people become information?)
- the algorithms are very predictable
- these databases have institutional effects
- translation : having large statistical pools of data VS decyphering the underlying structure (meaning - i.e. Chomsky)
- www.thepoliticsofsystems.net
- books : random-access media - user-driven media (the users are in control of the media)
- a book as a place
- socialbook - all in the browser - social reading (with comments)
- engage with authors in real-time or asynchronously 'in the book'
Anne Mangen, Ph. D. - University of Stavanger
- why bother with print?
- the role of the hands - fingers,etc. in reading
- ergonomical affordances : books <> e-books <> computer
- "people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read hypertext"
- multilinearity/hypertexts /education/ - where do video games come in? wii/kinect/joysticks & layout-wise much more complex than books
- books - good spatial representation / games -> people can move characters in pixel-perfect positions for years
- "sense the progress in your hands" - "human hand-eye coordination can be taken into consideration in optimal ways"
Ray Siemens INKE http://www.hci-book.org
- Electronic Textual Cultures Lab - University of Victoria
- imiatating the book is doomed to fail - they have to reference the full system in which they live, not just the 'page'.
- reading is a device-specific activity - a whole system feeds into the 'hardware' we have in front of us
Robert Max Steenkist - the book in Later America
- one of the major problems seems to be about trying to mimick books - we are not even close. We must think of this as its own media.