digital writing: promoting access or not? (via the YouTube forum)
Upon first viewing this vid, created by professor of anthropology Michael Wesh, I was taken in by the innovative presentation of text as unfixed, maleable, and alinear. He presents this new form of writing as changing how we conceive of notions that we otherwise consider fixed such as identity, authorship, and love. For the most part, I agree with Wesh's claim that this new form of text, which signifies as much in its medium as in its content is making more tansparent the fluidity of meaning. Also important to include, however, are the following response vids, which open discussion about notions of accessability and text that are left out of Wesh's production. Overall, I find the three vids together present a thoughtful inquiry on digital writing, its potentials and limitations.
Web 2.O ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Re: Web 2.O ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
This vid focuses mostly on accessibility.
Re: Web 2.O ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
This vid challenges Wesh's claim that "text" as we know it is changing by presenting text not as changing but as reproduced as simulacra through different media in a hyperreal ways (perhaps ?--I need to view this one a few more times. A recent obituary I just read on Jean Baudrillard may be over-influencing my interpretation)