The computer has taken over as the dominant method for just about every task in today's world. Writing and editing are no different and this paper looks at how the latter has evolved since the beginning of the digital era. Through the compilation of multiple sources, as well as personal interviews with individuals who have worked in the field since before the shift, I have explored how editing is best accomplished in today's technology-savvy world, how the position of editor is viewed after the advent of the computer and the Internet, and where those passionate about the profession should be focusing their efforts to shape the future of editing.
This was the presentation of my undergraduate thesis project combining my Journalism and Creative Writing majors at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 1 p.m. in Marsh Hall.
Networked learning: experience the educational power of the network and the participatory culture of the web Presented at the Asia Society Ning.com is a free web-based platform that allows users to create their own social networking sites with many of the same features available on Facebook or MySpace. (The word “ning” means “peace” in Chinese.) Sites created with Ning allow virtual communities to form around common interests and around the world. Come explore how participating on a Ning—and even creating your own—enables students and teachers alike to engage in networked learning.
Networked learning: experience the educational power of the network and the participatory culture of the web Presented at the Asia Society Ning.com is a free web-based platform that allows users to create their own social networking sites with many of the same features available on Facebook or MySpace. (The word “ning” means “peace” in Chinese.) Sites created with Ning allow virtual communities to form around common interests and around the world. Come explore how participating on a Ning—and even creating your own—enables students and teachers alike to engage in networked learning.
The raise and fall of the literate-mass-media era - presentation 1 (main - 15...OrestesCarvalho
Content is the king, right?
Maybe not.
After 500 years, since Gutenberg's printing press, it seems content was deposed by the digital medium, despite most people didn't notice it yet. Because this revolution bring new concepts we can't even articulate well as they don't fit in our old paradigms.
From Publication to the Public Expanding your research beyond academiaTiffany Medina
What are the benefits – expected and unexpected — of translating your research for the general public?
• How do you pitch your research story to the media?
• When writing for the media or the public, how do you frame the topic to be explored so it is relevant outside of the research community?
Hear Maria Balinska, Editor of The Conversation US, previously of BBC London, and a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard (need we say more?) address these questions in this one-hour webinar. She also presents some success stories from other researchers as well as one place to start for you and your colleagues – The Conversation US, an independent, non-profit media organization that publishes news analysis and commentary written by academics and edited by journalists aimed at the general public. (In other words, a team of professional editors who work with scholars like yourselves to apply their expertise to topical issues and to unlock their cutting edge research, all at no cost to you.)
The social media world is not flat. There are new lands beyond the continent of Facebook. The New world has riches, romance, opportunities, fame, and some say the secrets to eternal youth. Buy also beware! There are rumors of Medussas whose siren song will lure you in to her lair so that you will crash upon the rocks, serpents called worms that will entangle your ship and control your course, viruses that will make you and your crew sea sick, trojan ships that will approach you with free goods that hold spies that will live among you, pirate ships that will steal your goods and ask you to join in their skullduggery by trading in illegal goods, and Cyclops who will train their evil eye on you to suck out your soul and rob your privacy.
But as entrepid explorers you must put aside your fears and push out into the unknown. Forewarned is forearmed! Seek your destiny!
Stories to tell: The making of our digital nation. April 2010 Rose Holley
A new type of digital volunteer is quietly adding to the sum of knowledge of our history and heritage on the web. Ordinary Australians have helped correct millions of lines of text in the National Library of Australia's Newspaper Digitisation Program. They have contributed thousands of photographs to the national digital picture collection. The presentation describes these projects and others from libraries and archives that you can help with. Everyone can help to improve, describe and create our digital heritage.
My keynote from the AIS NSW ICT Integration Conference 2009: eConsumers or eProducers? (http://bit.ly/1ri5ka).
Details and contact for slide notes at http://www.acidlabs.org/2009/09/29/only-connect/.
A full-day workshop given in Belle Vernon PA on May 1st, 2009. In addition to the formal presentation, there was a time for participants to explore and play with a variety of gadgets that they might want to have in their own libraries.
The raise and fall of the literate-mass-media era - presentation 1 (main - 15...OrestesCarvalho
Content is the king, right?
Maybe not.
After 500 years, since Gutenberg's printing press, it seems content was deposed by the digital medium, despite most people didn't notice it yet. Because this revolution bring new concepts we can't even articulate well as they don't fit in our old paradigms.
From Publication to the Public Expanding your research beyond academiaTiffany Medina
What are the benefits – expected and unexpected — of translating your research for the general public?
• How do you pitch your research story to the media?
• When writing for the media or the public, how do you frame the topic to be explored so it is relevant outside of the research community?
Hear Maria Balinska, Editor of The Conversation US, previously of BBC London, and a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard (need we say more?) address these questions in this one-hour webinar. She also presents some success stories from other researchers as well as one place to start for you and your colleagues – The Conversation US, an independent, non-profit media organization that publishes news analysis and commentary written by academics and edited by journalists aimed at the general public. (In other words, a team of professional editors who work with scholars like yourselves to apply their expertise to topical issues and to unlock their cutting edge research, all at no cost to you.)
The social media world is not flat. There are new lands beyond the continent of Facebook. The New world has riches, romance, opportunities, fame, and some say the secrets to eternal youth. Buy also beware! There are rumors of Medussas whose siren song will lure you in to her lair so that you will crash upon the rocks, serpents called worms that will entangle your ship and control your course, viruses that will make you and your crew sea sick, trojan ships that will approach you with free goods that hold spies that will live among you, pirate ships that will steal your goods and ask you to join in their skullduggery by trading in illegal goods, and Cyclops who will train their evil eye on you to suck out your soul and rob your privacy.
But as entrepid explorers you must put aside your fears and push out into the unknown. Forewarned is forearmed! Seek your destiny!
Stories to tell: The making of our digital nation. April 2010 Rose Holley
A new type of digital volunteer is quietly adding to the sum of knowledge of our history and heritage on the web. Ordinary Australians have helped correct millions of lines of text in the National Library of Australia's Newspaper Digitisation Program. They have contributed thousands of photographs to the national digital picture collection. The presentation describes these projects and others from libraries and archives that you can help with. Everyone can help to improve, describe and create our digital heritage.
My keynote from the AIS NSW ICT Integration Conference 2009: eConsumers or eProducers? (http://bit.ly/1ri5ka).
Details and contact for slide notes at http://www.acidlabs.org/2009/09/29/only-connect/.
A full-day workshop given in Belle Vernon PA on May 1st, 2009. In addition to the formal presentation, there was a time for participants to explore and play with a variety of gadgets that they might want to have in their own libraries.
How did printing technology impact literacy and education How d.pdfarihantkitchenmart
How did printing technology impact literacy and education ?
How did printing technology impact literacy and education ?
Solution
Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of Visual
Communication. One prominent scholar in the field is Elizabeth Eisenstein, who contrasted print
culture, which appeared in Europe in the centuries after the advent of the Western printing press
to scribal culture.
Print culture is the conglomeration of effects on human society that is created by making printed
forms of communication. Print culture encompasses many stages as it has evolved in response to
technological advances. Print culture can first be studied from the period of time involving the
gradual movement from oration to script as it is the basis for print culture. As the printing
became commonplace, script became insufficient and printed documents were mass produced.
The era of physical print has had a lasting effect on human culture, but with the advent of digital
text, some scholars believe the printed word is becoming obsolete.
The advent of the printing press over five hundred years ago may be described as one of the few
major significant events in mankind’s history in terms of the greatest impact on literacy. Before
paper and print were invented, oral communication was the only method in which information
was gathered and distributed. Even though this bound the community together, it did not allow
the community to grow and there were no methods of accurately storing and retrieving
information. Further, if the community moved on or perished so did their historical records and
knowledge. Although the following technologies involved the written word in the form of
papyrus scrolls and manuscript codex as examples, it was still quite time consuming and limited
to the upper literate elite class of society. When the printing press was invented there was a shift
from the laborious manuscript making to the codex print allowing many copies of written work
to be quickly created, in turn providing greater access to information for all and providing the
framework for the gradual transformation of societal literacy.
The concept of printing was first conceived and developed in China and Korea. Although the
concept was conceived by the eastern nations, the first mechanized printing press was invented
by a German metalworker named Johann Gutenberg in 1452. Gutenberg did not invent the
printing press but rather conceived the idea of movable type which is actually an aggregation of
three distinct technologies utilized by humans for many centuries before Gutenberg (Jones
2007). This can be described as a form of remediation of previous communication technologies.
Bolter defines remediation when a, “newer medium takes place of an older one, borrowing and
reorganizing the characteristics of writing in the older medium and reforming its cultural space.”
(Bolter, 2001, p.23). Gutenberg combined the technologies of paper, viscous oil-based ink.
Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities.pptxHirvapandya1
This presentation is Group presentation which is made by me and vachhalata Joshi. comparative Literature in the age of digital Humanity by Todd Presener
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
2. Introduction
“Roughly a hundred years ago the modern era of
communication begins. A precise date is
unnecessary but the decade of the 1890s can
serve as the approximate moment when, in the
United States, space and time were
enclosed, when it became possible to think of
the nation as everywhere running on the same
clock of awareness and existing within a
homogeneous national space.”
-James Carey
3. Introduction
“The knowledge of language sets us apart from all
other species that we know of so far…It allows us
to gain and express real knowledge, to learn of
our respective environments and ourselves, and
ultimately to reach many things and ideas that are
beyond our individual capabilities.” -Fred Field
4. Introduction
An editor is a person who prepares written
matter for publication.
Often seen in a negative light:
Grumpy newspaper mogul
Stalker-like manuscript hound
Obsessive, self-titled grammar Nazi
Tearful agent blubbering about deadlines
Want to help others perfect their words
5. Introduction
Through exploration of the past century, I will
illustrate how the role of editor has become one
of ridicule and how those in the field can strive
to alter the traditional author-publisher-editor
dynamic in order to escape extinction.
6. Philosophers
Walter Benjamin
Reproduction displaces art
from its culture
Art becomes a commodity
The editor becomes the art
critic insisting a work fails to
meet standards
7. Philosophers
Marshall McLuhan
Print changed the oral
culture that came before
Man looks down on others
who cannot conform
Technological media are
like natural resources
8. Philosophers
Katherine Hayles
“Books aren’t going the way of
the dinosaur but of the human –
evolving.”
Erik Qualman
“While the transition from [physical] to
electronic versions will occur, …we are
at the beginning of that trail. It will not
be as rapid or absolute a succession
as other industries.”
9. Newspapers
Began circulating in the 1400s
Lacked regulation until 1950s
Associated Press Styleguide
“Presentation
of the printed word should be
accurate, consistent, pleasing to the eye and
should conform to grammatical standards.”
10. Newspapers
“The copyreader is the newspaper’s principal
safeguard. He is the constructive critic, the
policeman of the news... To the experienced
reporter he is a prop, a backstop, a friend in
need, and a partner; to the several editors he is
the guardian of the language and of accuracy…”
-George Bastian
11. Newspapers
English is a constantly evolving language
2011 Merriam-Webster added “bromance”
2011 Oxford English Dictionary added “<3”
Editors in place to aid in translation
While young people may understand these new
terms, older individuals might need explanation
12. Books
Editors in this field not valued as highly
Relentless,obsessive-compulsive perfectionists
Came about with 1700s commoditization of novel
More perfect = better-received
13. Books
Digital methods changed
entire process
Mark Twain Project
40 years of archived work,
from novels to notes,
available to the public free of
charge
Project’s goal is to produce
an annotated critical digital
edition of the entirety of
Twain’s works
14. Best Method
Two main methods
Traditional(physical, pen+paper) lends itself to
“global” changes, overarching connections,
content and organization
Digital(electronic, computer) lends itself to
“surface” changes, smaller corrections of spelling,
grammar and sentence structure
Each has pros and cons
15. Best Method
Organization
Physical copies allow multiple pages to be viewed
Gives better understanding of concepts
More difficult to locate specific passages
Electronic copies allow quick searches
Findwhat you’re looking for immediately
Screen can only display so much at one time
16. Best Method
A combination of these methods will yield the
best results for a work
Articles for The Pacific Index are stored
digitally, viewed physically and corrected digitally
I prefer to look at a physical copy when I go over
someone else’s work, but often receive just digital
Should also incorporate community contribution
Follow models scholarly publishing develops
17. Digital Archives
The William Blake Archive, The Walt Whitman
Archive, even the Mark Twain Project
Collect works in multiple digital formats
HTML/XML text
High-quality scans of notes or other writing
Allows all stages of editing to be viewed
18. Digital Archives
“I Hear America Singing”
1860 version with Whitman’s notes (left)
1891 version (below)
19. Digital Archives
Utilizes many people working together
Encourages multiple eyes going over a work
Blurs lines between editor, editions and reader
Shows current shift in creative and editing
processes toward community
20. Conclusion
Editors underappreciated, ridiculed
2010 undergrads disinclined toward courses
with “heavy” literary requirements
Online reinforcement of negative outlook
Finnish Pilkunnussija = “comma fucker”
21. Conclusion
Not out of the running yet
Associated Press Managing Editors News ran a
study that had readers rate articles
Edited articles rated higher
“Editing really matters, [not just] to grumpy old
white guys who still teach editing classes. It
matters to younger people who might go a
month without seeing a newspaper. Real
people can tell the difference.” -Fred Vultee
22. Conclusion
“The reason a lot of people are stuck is because
they confuse the old ways, the best ways of
doing something once, with the best way of
doing something forever.”
-Mark Prensky
It’s time to stop waiting for the evolution of
editing and start leading it