Get ready to practice your extreme media parkour skills full on.
Map, navigate, and "read across" these capsules via your own unique interests and questions related to how media are transforming reading.
Your own questions and interests will be your compass and intention. They will help you decide what, among all of the experiences this capsule offers, is most relevant and useful to you. They give you a way to put your experiences into relation, transforming them from random encounters into something meaningful to you, and perhaps to others.
By mapping and navigating this capsule’s materials through the questions you bring to it, you will be reading not to "get" or "understand" meanings that a single author has tried to express in writing. There is no single meaning to get or to interpret in what follows. Instead, meaning becomes something that you will participate in creating via your "route of reading". The way you move through this capsule and the others that follow, as a traceur/esse, becomes key to what these capsules will mean for you. What will make your reading of these capsules meaningful and powerful in your life is not some meaning already embedded in them that your act of reading simply uncovers. Instead, these capsules invite you to follow what draws you, connect relevant and useful ideas across texts and experiences, and put others aside for later. These actions will add up to your route of reading--and it will become an extreme way of MAKING sense of the world.
"The printed page is giving way to the networked screen. The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction."
"if:book covers a wide range of concerns, all in some way fitting into the techno-cultural puzzle that is the future of reading and writing."
Online book sellers such as Amazon.com offer powerful tools related to the printed page. Both Amazon and Google Books provide search engines that allow you to search inside of books for specific words and passages, read entire chapters, and print pages from books posted online. Amazon includes additional features such as forums, editorials, citations, discussion groups, suggested and related readings. These tools can become the foundation for building online knowledge communities and for off-line experiences such as reading books and participating in book clubs.
Google Books also has a highly advanced book search option. Here's how Google Books works.
Google Scholar, another Google initiative, "provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."
"Vectors doesn't seek to replace text; instead, we encourage a fusion of old and new media in order to foster ways of knowing and seeing that expand the rigid text-based paradigms of traditional scholarship. Simply put, we publish only works that need, for whatever reason, to exist in multimedia. In so doing, we aim to explore the immersive and experiential dimensions of emerging scholarly vernaculars across media platforms."
Wikipedia is built out of open debates and direct user editing on all topics posted to its site.
Right now, "media studies" is a topic that Wikipedia's readers have declared "in need of attention from an expert." Vibrant debates are going on behind the scenes for this and many other subjects posted on Wikipedia.
Pull back the curtain and experience collective intelligence in-the-making. Participate in Wikipedia's debate on how we should understand "media studies."
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