“The light sculpture Death calls the tune filters all the news items which go around the world minute by minute for those which deal with perdition and misery on our planet. Managed by a microcontroller the pick-up of the remodelled record player “burns” the 60 token long headlines of them into the groomed light disc which turns steadily.”
“Free e-books work for me.”
Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
“Popular culture is defined in part by its immediacy and it is not clear that one can meaningfully understand how it works or what it does without stepping at least temporarily into the realm of the proximate and the passionate.” April 16, 2007, http://www.henryjenkins.org/
Recent advances in publication and dissemination systems have given rise to new types of text – dynamic, reactive, multi-lingual, with numerous cooperating or even adversarial authors and little or no editorial control. Many of these new types of text remain true to established existing textual genres; others break new ground, moving towards new emergent textual genres enabled by the dramatically lowered publication threshold and distribution mechanisms.

















