[xmca] Re: [Air-L] Writing and iPads

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

The references below seem like they should be interest to those who brought
the issue of writing into the xmca discussion.
mike

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:

> And can't resist encouraging a careful look at chapter nine in Naomi
> Baron's
> prize-winning _Always On_, in which she provides a brief history of a
> Western understanding of the role of writing (e.g., Commonplace Books) in
> our conceptions of education and selfhood since the Renaissance (a history
> usefully complemented by Foucault's late essays on writing as a "technology
> of the self," a thematic that Maria Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden
> have
> also helpfully explored in their "Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self," now
> online as part of a special issue of Philosophy and Technology).
> Naomi then develops a very interesting and, I think, important set of
> contrasts between writing by hand and writing at the keyboard (both
> computer
> and phone).
> It would be interesting to see the contrasts suggested here and the
> responses between keyboard and iPad - and where, if at all, they might fit
> within Naomi's larger frameworks.
>
> Thanks, and best,
> - charles
>
>
> On 1/13/12 3:59 PM, "Greg Wise" <Greg.Wise@asu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello, all,
> > A friend of mine who is a writer of fiction is wondering about the
> effects on
> > one's prose of writing on an iPad v. desktop/laptop, and was looking for
> > either studies that have been done, or anecdotal accounts from (literary)
> > writers. So far most of the anecdotal stuff out there is about which
> apps to
> > use, and few are reflecting on if there are changes to one's writing.
> And it's
> > probably too soon for any systematic research to have been done. But I
> thought
> > I'd check.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > Dr. J. Macgregor Wise
> > Associate Dean
> > New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
> > Arizona State University
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> > Glendale, AZ 85306-4908
> > (602) 543 6646; (602) 543 4565 (fax)
> >
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