The Internet is like a giant web of information all interconnected through links called hyperlinks. Established reading patterns emphasise the importance of close reading consisting of textual analysis, comprehension, and critical reflection often involving re-reading the text. Online reading experiences do not map exactly onto existing literacy patterns. Reading on the Internet places emphasis on searching, scanning, jumping, and filtering information. Internet reading is often a fast, multi-attention, communal act as seen by web blogs, twitters, and online wikis. Search-engines read Web pages by filtering hits according to popularity or relevance to an online community. Information Communication Technology (ICT) has merged into Information Society Technology (IST). Social networking sites are called Web 2.0. New patterns of online reading complement the emerging technologies that increasingly allow computers to read and write autonomously to each other across platforms and applications such as in XML (Extensible Markup Language) based technologies that underlie the new online text databases, archives, and RSS (Really Simple Syndication, also known as “web syndication”) feeds.
Watch Mike Wesch's YouTube video about Web 2.0 How is the Web affecting ways we gather information and use it?
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Digitial images: what does the future hold?
If you have seen the film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, you may remember seeing characters using touch screen technology and 3D image tools with not a keyboard or mouse in sight. Was this science fiction or is it science fact?
The future? -- touch screen with 3D image interface
CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city. The new interface launched in October 2008 also allows working with 3D objects, which enables multiple content and multiple timelines. This may be how we will shortly be using technology.
Microsoft will launch touch screen for Windows 7 in 2009.
How will new interfaces affect the ways we store, share, and source information?
The future? -- touch screen with 3D image interface
CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city. The new interface launched in October 2008 also allows working with 3D objects, which enables multiple content and multiple timelines. This may be how we will shortly be using technology.
Microsoft will launch touch screen for Windows 7 in 2009.
How will new interfaces affect the ways we store, share, and source information?
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