Comments on: Blogging and other literary forms… http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/07/06/blogging-and-other-literary-forms/ Now with improved Wordpress goodness! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: askpang http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/07/06/blogging-and-other-literary-forms/#comment-45 askpang Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=14#comment-45 Re: your remark that <blockquote> you've got this new technology (a weblog), and people don't initially know how to use it, so they import their understandings of precious technologies and use that knowledge to inform their use of the new one. </blockquote> This is, of course, the phenomenon that Bolter and Grusin develop in their book <i>Remediation</i>-- though they're mainly interested in how it serves to create the illusion of escaping artistic conventions or technological limitations. Re: your remark that

you’ve got this new technology (a weblog), and people don’t initially know how to use it, so they import their understandings of precious technologies and use that knowledge to inform their use of the new one.

This is, of course, the phenomenon that Bolter and Grusin develop in their book Remediation— though they’re mainly interested in how it serves to create the illusion of escaping artistic conventions or technological limitations.

]]> By: Epistemographer http://www.epistemographer.com/2003/07/06/blogging-and-other-literary-forms/#comment-46 Epistemographer Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=14#comment-46 It's also similar to the idea of technological frame, if you want to argue that new technologies are initially understood through preexisting frames. There's also McLuhan and his rearview mirror metaphor, though that (and Bolter and Grusin, for that matter) tends to be more technologically determinist than I'd like. It’s also similar to the idea of technological frame, if you want to argue that new technologies are initially understood through preexisting frames. There’s also McLuhan and his rearview mirror metaphor, though that (and Bolter and Grusin, for that matter) tends to be more technologically determinist than I’d like.

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