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Holding on to Reality, Part 3 [edited/posted]

As an alternate approach to Borgmann’s writing in this third and final section of the book, perhaps a quick recap of where the author ultimately intends to go is in order: Borgmann, over the course of more than one hundred pages of meandering and overexplanation of marginally illustrative technological [...]

Holding on to Reality, Part 2 [edited/reposted]

Throughout part 2 of Holding on to Reality, Borgmann (1999) approaches ‘cultural’ information as a multifaceted type of information, at once defined through its difference from ‘natural’ information, (where the former is “for the shaping of reality,” unlike the latter ‘natural’ information which is “about reality”), but also in [...]

on Web Theory, chapters 8, 9, conclusion; Holding onto Reality, Part 1, [edited/reposted]

While Burnett & Marshall provide a gloss of Web-based news delivery at the moment of their writing, their predictive powers are perhaps not as keen in this chapter.  To their credit, convergence of different media to deliver an entirely different conception of news, [...]

on Web Theory, chapters 5-7

Chapter 5, “The Look of the Web,” endeavors to understand the structure of the Web in an historical context, (through histories of “graphic structures” of computers and television, as well as through the development of hypertext), as well as through a slight engagement with semiotics.  The first precursor of the ‘look [...]

on Web Theory, chapters 2 – 4

Chapter 2 (“Information and Networks”) describes the interaction of information through a networked environment to make up what we know as the now-central outgrowth of the Internet, ‘the Web’.  The chapter attempts this exploration by first reviewing the concept of information, with a heavy emphasis on the impact of [...]