Category Archives: Toward an Aesthetics of Transition

I grew up with the unique opportunity of having much older parents than many of my peers.  My dad, newly 78 years old, and my mother, a fresh faced 63, have echoed in my ears their hesitance as media continues … Continue reading →

My first experience with a tablet, was my 2005 Gateway M275. My dad bought it for my as a graduation gift and to use in college and boy did I think I was on the cusp of being super cool; … Continue reading →

As media grows and transitions into new mediums over time the agreement over its content, effectiveness, and creditability will continue. After reading Thorburn and Jenkins introductory chapter of “Toward an Aesthetics of Transition” the most interesting point was the quality … Continue reading →

Creating new technologies and adapting to them has been an enormous part of our country’s history and should continue to be in the future. One of the reasons we’ve been so successful is for that exact reason. With each of … Continue reading →

It’s interesting how there seems to be a pattern throughout history that anytime a new technology is introduced, that there is panic about how it can lead to the end of the world as we know it. Often times this … Continue reading →

There is not a moment of time that goes by where life is not evolving and changing.  In recent years especially, as soon as the population was granted access to media we have eaten it up in all forms, and … Continue reading →

“If emerging media are often experimental and self-reflexive they are also inevitably and centrally imitative, rooted in the past, in the practices, formats and deep assumptions of their predecessors…invention itself is shaped and constrained by history, by inherited forms of … Continue reading →

I think Thorburn and Jenkins have a good point, and they present a cogent argument.  However, I also think that the argument presented here is missing some key differences between earlier transitions in media and this current one.  I know … Continue reading →

For months I have been preparing for the world to end from a catastrophic earthquake at the end of the Mayan calendar… but little did I know that Twitter had the power to end the world, too? I guess I’ll … Continue reading →

I used to just ignore people who poo-pooed the rise of ‘new media’ as a sign of an oncoming apocalypse, but now those Negative Nancys are really starting to bug me. I get it. People don’t like change — I’m … Continue reading →