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Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience
The document discusses the evolution of reading over time through various technological innovations from 1850 to the present. It explores how each new medium from newspapers to movies to computers changed expectations of what reading entails and how text can be experienced. While e-books brought changes, they have not revolutionized reading like prior innovations. The most important expectations for reading involve quantity of content available rather than qualitative aspects of the reading experience. Constraints that initially seem limiting can become freeing over time as new standards and skills develop.
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- 1. Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Tim Carmody Senior Writer, Wired.com
- 2. my sordid historywith reading
- 3. my sordid historywith reading
- 4. my sordid historywith reading The Bookfuturist Manifesto
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- 6. my sordid historywith reading The Bookfuturist Manifesto Ten Reading Revolutions Before E-Books
- 7. Ten Reading RevolutionsBefore E-Books
- 8. my sordid historywith reading The Bookfuturist Manifesto Ten Reading Revolutions Before E-Books E-Books Are Still Waiting For Their Avant-Garde
- 9. E-Books Are StillWaiting For Their Avant-
- 10. Modernist Literature, Art,& Media
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- 12. Paper Modernism 1850-1950
- 13. Paper Modernism 1850-1950 media revolutions: cinema, newspapers, telegraph typewriters, diagrammming sentences, advertising
- 14. Paper Modernism 1850-1950 media revolutions: cinema, newspapers, telegraph typewriters, diagrammming sentences, advertising all deeply related
- 15. Paper Modernism 1850-1950 media revolutions: cinema, newspapers, telegraph typewriters, diagrammming sentences, advertising all deeply related technical possibilities of production & distribution
- 16. Paper Modernism 1850-1950 media revolutions: cinema, newspapers, telegraph typewriters, diagrammming sentences, advertising all deeply related technical possibilities of production & distribution typewriter, offset printing, cheap paper
- 17. Paper Modernism 1850-1950 media revolutions: cinema, newspapers, telegraph typewriters, diagrammming sentences, advertising all deeply related technical possibilities of production & distribution typewriter, offset printing, cheap paper bombarded with information, text and images in
- 18. new expectations andpossibilities for reading
- 19. new expectations andpossibilities for reading how text should look and be experienced
- 20. new expectations andpossibilities for reading how text should look and be experienced books, movies, city streets
- 21. new expectations andpossibilities for reading how text should look and be experienced books, movies, city streets no reason to distinguish between media
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- 23. the 21st centurymedia industry
- 24. How to cover the21st century media industry
- 25. How to cover the21st century media industry all together
- 26. How to cover the21st century media industry all together or in tiny bits
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- 29. Amazon all together Apple
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- 31. weird obsessions in tiny bits
- 32. weird obsessions in tiny bits how do you do text entry in a Netflix app for the Wii?
- 33. unusual contexts forreading and writing
- 34. unusual contexts forreading and writing unusual devices
- 35. unusual contexts forreading and writing unusual devices unusual functions and use cases
- 36. unusual contexts forreading and writing unusual devices unusual functions and use cases not so unusual
- 37. unusual contexts forreading and writing interface jumps
- 38. unusual contexts forreading and writing interface jumps part of the experiential background that reading is defined with or defined against
- 39. How do weread, really? in a hyperliterate society the vast majority of reading is not consciously recognized as reading
- 40. what readers expect ismore important than what readers want
- 41. structure of expectations what readers expect is more important than what readers want
- 42. structure of expectations 1. skeuomorphs 2. conventions 3. skills
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- 46. skills Clay Shirky: “ascreen without a mouse ships broken”
- 47. skills Clay Shirky: “ascreen without a mouse ships broken” Steve Jobs: “if you see a stylus, they blew it”
- 48. skills Clay Shirky: “ascreen without a mouse ships broken” Steve Jobs: “if you see a stylus, they blew it” if you see a mouse, they blew it
- 49. skills Clay Shirky: “ascreen without a mouse ships broken” Steve Jobs: “if you see a stylus, they blew it” if you see a mouse, they blew it NOT TRUE
- 50. skills Bill Buxton: “everytool is the best at something and the worst at something else”
- 51. skills Bill Buxton: “everytool is the best at something and the worst at something else” “skills are expensive”
- 52. skills deeper than skeuomorphsor conventions
- 53. skills deeper than skeuomorphsor conventions stronger relationship to the body
- 54. skills deeper than skeuomorphsor conventions stronger relationship to the body more generalizable
- 55. skills deeper than skeuomorphsor conventions stronger relationship to the body more generalizable most poorly utilized in interface design
- 56. skills how to buttona button
- 57. skills how to buttona button manuscript / pen & ink
- 58. skills how to button a button manuscript / pen & ink your pocket is a multitouch interface
- 59. path-dependency and learningeffects
- 60. path-dependency and learningeffects switching costs coordinating around a common standard people get better at things they practice
- 61. path-dependency and learningeffects switching costs coordinating around a common standard people get better at things they practice need external shock
- 62. when do weNEED to be SHOCKED?
- 63. most important expectationsfor reading
- 64. most important expectationsfor reading not how the page looks
- 65. most important expectationsfor reading not how the page looks not even just how we interact with it
- 66. most important expectationsfor reading not how the page looks not even just how we interact with it nothing qualitative at all
- 67. most important expectationsfor reading QUANTITY
- 68. most important expectationsfor reading QUANTITY how much we get how we get more who’s in charge
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- 70. Odysseus and theSirens we actually like constraints once we’re in them
- 71. Odysseus and theSirens we actually like constraints once we’re in them constraints are freedom
- 72. Odysseus and theSirens we actually like constraints once we’re in them constraints are freedom we have an endless supply of constraints
- 73. Odysseus and theSirens we actually like constraints once we’re in them constraints are freedom we have an endless supply of constraints (this itself is a paradox)
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