{"id":151,"date":"2005-11-09T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T23:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/11\/09\/weekly-post-all-my-creativity-was-spent-on-media-analysis-2\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T18:25:49","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T23:25:49","slug":"weekly-post-all-my-creativity-was-spent-on-media-analysis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/11\/09\/weekly-post-all-my-creativity-was-spent-on-media-analysis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Post- All My creativity was spent on Media Analysis #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#33ccff\"><\/font><font>On page 36 of Lev Manovich&#8217;s <em>The Language of New Media<\/em>, the variability of new media is discussed.&nbsp; I related his discussion of new media back to the recent focus on hypertext based on several key passages in this section.&nbsp; Manovich writes, &quot;A new media object is not something fixed once and for all, but something that can exist in different, potentially infinite versions.&quot;&nbsp; Before new media came about in the form of webpages and &quot;flash&quot; movies, once a literary work was published then the plot and story was finalized.&nbsp; But often in hypertexts, they are so complex that the structure often mirrors a great circle as to make it almost impossible to discern where the narrative ends.&nbsp; Therefore, the creator or author can easily add segments connected by images or links into the story with little or no alert being raised by the reader.&nbsp; As a result, the elements of that hypertext are indefinetly variable.&nbsp; One of the greatest examples of a new media\/hypertext would be Wikipedia where a user can edit the material or update the subject.&nbsp; This is in direct opposition, to a subscriber constantly having to purchase the Encyclopedia Brittanica every year.&nbsp; Quite a contrast between 10 years ago and now<\/font>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 36 of Lev Manovich&#8217;s The Language of New Media, the variability of new media is discussed.&nbsp; I related his discussion of new media back to the recent focus on hypertext based on several key passages in this section.&nbsp; Manovich writes, &quot;A new media object is not something fixed once and for all, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/11\/09\/weekly-post-all-my-creativity-was-spent-on-media-analysis-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Post- All My creativity was spent on Media Analysis #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}