Friday, August 29, 2008
Week 1 Muddiest Point
A muddy point for me is the distinction between content and container. John Blossom's quote from Week 1's PowerPoint presentation, "It’s the experience of the content, not its mass-manufactured container, that I value most", seems to me to devalue the context of the content. Isn't there a lot to be learned from the so-called "mass-manufactured container"? It seems to me that by divorcing the content from it's context, we lose a lot of potentially important or interesting information about the society or persons that "mass-manufacture" the containers.
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Eric -I agree that while the content is most important, the container gives us information as well. If all articles, research and revisions are done only on computers we will never see the scratch outs, word changes and 'side notes' that we currently see in old documents. Isn't that part of what makes a work interesting? The author(s) work to get to the finished product can be as interesting and telling as the final draft, be it research, fiction or art. ~April
I, too, agree that the container is equally important... sometimes more to "the mass-manufactures" and to who and how they market them.
Also, who controls the information and how (nowadays, for how much?) it is disseminated.
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