[-empyre-] post for convergence; print to pixels

[Senom Yalcin]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, katherine hayles <nk_hayles at yahoo.com>wrote:

>     In my capacity as a series editor, I read a lot of manuscripts, and
> among the younger hipper scholars, I see a clear tendency to move toward a
> Web kind of writing, even if the final product is meant to be a print
> book--texts that lend themselves to skimming, that have much shorter blocks
> of prose and argumentation, that can be perused in an hour or so and put
> down without feeling that you have missed too much.   I also see a lot of
> book manuscripts where the main argument appears in the first chapter, with
> subsequent chapters merely setting out variations on a single theme; these
> too can be skimmed quickly, perhaps reading only 10-20 pages with care, and
> getting the gist out of the rest.
>


How long will it be before academic blogs will be considered as publishing
(enough to meet tenure requirements)? Some new generation academics, for
example, reap benefits of having a (solid) blog
(recognition/networking/presentation opportunities, etc). The reason I am
asking this relates also a bit to the ”What communication demands what
technology” question - as I would like to ask: what communicative/cognitive
tasks will be required of/expected/prevail in the daily/academic life as
such cognitive changes as noted by Dr Hayles occur?
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