As we discussed in class, and as many have come to realize, there is no one specific way to describe Digital Publishing. There is not one single term that describes digital publishing, the industry, or the producers of such, though Google still provides a definition that states “Digital publishing, also known as electronic publishing or e-publishing, is any…
1: Digital Stewardship
I was very interested in the idea of stewardship following our class discussion. Particularly, its role in the process of digital publishing. In The Complexity of the Digital Text, Okkerse mentions the “unseen complexity involved in digital publishing”. Perhaps the most unseen and complex occupation in the realm of digital publishing is stewardship. According to…
1: Modes of Multimedia Texts
I remember in high school history classes that often, when presented with a chart of population expansion or a similar idea in the textbook, the teacher would instead play a YouTube video that showed the same idea with movement and color. That’s what I thought of while I read these selections—how multimodal digital publishing can…
1: The Complexity of the Digital Text
Something that particularly interested me about our readings is the unseen complexity involved in digital publishing. In particular, digital publishing does not simply refer to posting words and/or images to the Internet, but there is complex communication and social and cultural exchanges among even the most basic digitally published material. For example, we don’t typically…
Welcome to Digital Publishing & Blog Prompt 1
Welcome to Digital Publishing! This WordPress blog will serve as a hub for our reading and discussion this semester. I’ve added a page that outlines the posting requirements (this is also available to you in Blackboard). As the semester progresses, I’ll add more information here that will guide you in completing the course objectives. Here’s…