Semi-Synchronous Communication: Adding Notes in Viddler.

October 11th, 2008

Last week, I was discussing with someone the ability one has to add textual comments (annotations) to the timeline of online videos, such as in YouTube and Viddler. In this way, one is commenting textually at certain points in the timeline of the video. This is rather exciting, since it breaks a limitation of annotating video/audio.
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Bridging the Social Gap of Instant Messaging

October 9th, 2008

In response to Are these media the ‘fitting response’ to an oral communicative exigence, that now gets expressed textually? Is this the answer to bridging geographic distance textually but using rules clearly based in orality, afforded by the new technologies?

I took this to refer to bridging the situation that since you are not right in front of the individual(s) with whom you are communicating, there are spans of “silence” during which the other person does not know what you are doing.
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New Media and Personal Communication

November 9th, 2007

In my post on 11.05.07, I wrote, “We are a writing, electronic, and digital culture. That is, we have writing, so orality is not going to replace writing. … However, what is important to examine is that communication can exist in this New Media (NM) in a form that is more oral than it is textual. “

This is not so radical, when we consider Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome All

September 8th, 2007

I welcome you to my blog, which is largely devoted to my Dissertation research, ideas, and direction. However, one can assuredly expect other rants, digressions, and discussions. Feel free to comment, question, or initiate new (related) discussions on topics found herein.