Digital text is Different

This publication is designed to explore how digital text is different from old and familiar printed or handwritten text. There is a vast amount of information available in our digital lives, found through the internet, filed under numerous categories and of varying quality, all within the worlds sight. All this digital information is disjointed from the traditional linear form of progression. When adapting stories found on the internet for this book many design aspects were taken into consideration. One of the most visible is the lack of a table of contents. Instead of a table of contents the book instructs the user to remove the binding clips and open the book into poster form and step back and view the journey as a whole. The publication was inspired by and incorporates the ideas set forth by Michael Wesch, Professor at Kansas State University. Wesch asks many questions in regards to who creates the digital content and what rights they and others have to this content. I agree these questions need to be considered when determining the value of this ever changing and growing form of digital information and collaboration, which varies according to the needs of the user. This publication examines these ideas by taking several stories out of the non-physical realm and publishing them in the physical material form of a book. The stories vary in length, quality, and importance, thereby communicating how critical it is to remember digital text is different in that anyone can publish digital text. We must continuously ask how to handle the integrity of digital text for future generations and are only able to dream where future generations take it next.

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Education

Tags:

• Digital
• text
• is
• Different

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[...] Questa pubblicazione prende varie storie dagli spazi virtuali dell'informazione e le pubblica nello spazio materiale sotto forma di libro.

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Libera traduzione in italiano: questa pubblicazione è stata progettata per esplorare come il testo digitale sia differente dal vecchio e familiare testo stampato o manoscritto. C'è una grande quantità di informazione disponibile nelle nostre vite digitali, da poter trovare tramite internet, divisa in numerose categorie e di qualità variabile. Questa informazione digitale è diversa da quella tradizionale, che procedeva in forma lineare [...]