EXERCISE:
Forms of Publishing ⇆ Publishing of Forms
Instructions
Break up into groups of 3Each group is assigned a form of publishing
As a group, in a collective Google Doc research and collaboratively notate the tetrad of media effects
Answer the following questions:
- When did this form primarily exist?
- What was it's primary content? (text, images, video)
- What was it's primary content unit? (article, song)
Examples to Choose From:
- Rhetorical software can be thought of as a form of publishing
- particular properties of this form:
- Explanation of origin at The New Inquiry
- e-book
- a skeuomorph of the printed-book-form-as-presented-on-a-digital-screen
- A consumable object
- Have you ever considered what tweeting out a "book" would do to it? No reasonable person would classify a series of tweets containing the text of a novel as an "e-book" so what about the e-book form makes it so?
- answer: it's commodific-ability by platforms to produce revenue from unit sales
- Zograscope
- 3D viewer in the late 18th century, like current day VR headsets
- Incunabula
- Podcast
- Newspaper
- composed of: articles
- Tik Tok
- Blog
- Vlog
- Magazine
- Zine
- Pamphlet
- Poster
- Album
- music album, CD, tape or otherwise
- Serial Novel
- the “Post”
- Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, other social media platforms
- Manuscript
