Pinterest

If you are a student in our #NMN 2014 running, please consider adding your Pinterest board (well, a link to it) and/or a link to your Pinterest profile in the comments' section of this post. We can all keep up with each other and our pins.

Of course, you can also e-mail me your Pinterest information which I'll keep track of for your web 2.0 participation mark.

#NMN and Twitter

Firstly, thank you all (well, almost all of you...) for participating online! You are practising new tools, perfecting your craft and refining your transliteracy skills. Additionally, by participating online, you are furnishing your online profile.

I've had several requests from students about how to follow fellow #NMN students on twitter. So, two things I'd like to ask:

1. Consider adding your twitter alias in a comment to this post so that we all can see and then follow fellow students. We have quite a few interested readers who are not part of our class (welcome interested readers!)
2. Remember to use the class hashtag, #NMN, when tweeting information pertinent to our class. I search for this tag, guest lecturers on our course will search for this tag and even previous students keep up to date with our developments by using this tag. It's a good way to keep our information organised.

E-Books Changing the Face of Publishing

I was reminded of this excellent infographic after looking at some of Nicole's recent pins. It is so pertinent to our studies. What do you think?

Week 2: Print Culture & Publishing

To help put our readings in context, you might like to begin by listening to this podcast on the changing face of publishing.

Week 2: Print Culture

Week 2: Making/Publishing History: Printing of THE Book

Required and Recommended Readings

Key Questions & Ideas: ★The history of the book ★The end of books (!?) ★The net_reading/writing_condition ★What are some current views about the emergence and diffusion of media?

n  “The Desktop Revolution,” Howard Brabyn, P. 16-19 (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0007/000796/079609eo.pdf) n  Elizabeth Eisenstein, (1995). The End of the Book? Some Perspectives on Media Change. American Scholar, 64541-555. n  “Pulp Fiction as Typography,” Jarratt Moody (Feb. 2007). (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8f8w6HPoo) n  Preston, Peter, “The writing is on the paywall – but the end of print is not quite nigh,” The Guardian (Dec. 2012). (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/dec/30/writing-on-paywall-end-of-print)    Recommended: Clement, Richard W. (1997). “Medieval and Renaissance Book Production,” Part II: The Printed Book. P 13-18 (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=lib_pubs)