Month: January 2018

1: Some Pros of Digital Publishing

Traditional print publishing revolves around strict gatekeeping mechanisms that choose texts to be published based on the market. Many digital texts go through the same process, and are purchased through various digital devices. But as taylorjp mentioned, Digital Publishing encompasses much more than the digital texts, most often e-books, publishing houses supply for large brand…

1: Unseen Complexity

When we consider digital media, it’s easy to overlook the cultural and social contexts, and how much time publishers devote to framing the individual elements of the text. For example, I think of the attention to the color red on a stop sign, which catches the driver’s attention and signals the message’s urgency. On its…

1. Semiotics and Multimedia

As I have learned more about my chosen field (Broadcasting) in my time here at Susquehanna I have had to consider semiotics in terms of multimedia projects for classes. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, and Kress adds that this theory also “…deals with meaning in all its appearances” (2). Semiotics plays an important…

1) Text: Digital vs Print

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…

Blog Post 2: Rhetorical Design Choices

This prompt is adapted from Writer/Designer. Try the exercise here to analyze a webtext of your choosing. Visit your favorite website, app, online journal, magazine, newspaper, or other digital text. Notice the information on the landing page. Why do you think it was chose? What does it say about the primary intended audience and its…

Pros and Cons of Digital vs Print

Digital publishing and print publishing are alike in some ways, because many times they contain the same types of media; text and images. However, they present media in very different ways. Print publishing mainly focuses on the page and often relies on the viewer to turn the page to read a footnote or a cross-reference….

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…