Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Emails certainly take on the idea of previous communication methods. They are written in a certain way, often formally when it is business related, and conversationalist when it is too a friend. Emails appeal to a vast majority of people as they follow on from a previous form, which enables people to pick this up easily. The only change in language has resulted by consequence of 'text' talk from mobile phones. But, in relation to Bolter and Grusin's theory of remediation, new media forms certainly take on a previous form and adapt into what is percieved as 'new'.
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ReplyDeleteHere is some feedback! First of all you are blogging away nicely here. Your labels tell me thoguh that you are still working on Week 2 nd we are at the end of week 3 now so some strategic moving on might be in order. In general your comments are showing you are thinking the unit ideas through and tyring to get to grips with some of the debates in a nicely measured way.
Do remember to take the time to question your own assumptions though. For instance, the nature of the language used in email is, as you rightly say, related to text-speak but this is not the only difference. Considering it in relation to a (RL)paper-based letter or spoken conversation, it appears to have elements of both. Also see my comments on granparents and their online ordering below!
Keep up the solid work but try now to get up to speed with the relevant week!
Further to the above, I pressed "post comment" before spell/grammar-checking so apologies for the multiple errors!
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