Part Two Reading Guide

These reading guides will help you sharpen your thinking about the readings. Can you answer these questions?

• Sullivan argues that blogs will "foment" a revolution in what form of media?
• What are the two special advantages Sullivan attributes to blogs?
• Describe the strategy he proposes about building an online presence and then selling something?

• Describe some possible social consequences in a group of friends when one person is writing a personal blog.
• Consider writing a "personal" blog, but publishing it under a fictitious name. Are there advantages?
• Whats the "blogosphere"?
• What is the new social anxiety: "fear of being blogged"?

• Campanella argues that webcams change our relationship to the built environment. What is the "built environment"?
• What do you think of his statement: "As long as webcams are aimed at the public realm, vigilance is in order, but not paranoia"?
• Webcams extend which human faculty?

• In which two fields is the quality of sound of great importance?
• For a computer to produce sound, numbers are considered to be samples of what?
• Describe the set up where a set of rules and a random-number generator are combined to make music.
• Describe the mechanics used by Tenney in generating computer music.

• In Ginsparg's view what is the cost relationship between an electronic scholarly journal and a print one?
• List some of the advantages of an entirely automated publishing process; in particular issues about timescale and communication.
• What is the effect of an e-print archive on researchers in the Third World?
• Summarize Ginsparg's opinion of what happens to benign, nonprofit organizations which become addicted to the amenities of scholarly publishing.
• Describe why setting up mirror sites is important.

• When hypertext is read, what two things become important?
• The author claims that there is a beginning, middle and end in hypertext, but this linearity is a quality of what?
• What is the 'pull vector'?
• What is the 'experience gradient'?
• The multiple voices and narrative lines through a 'docuverse' make the reader aware of what?

• Hart describes the doubling of production of e-texts each year which leads to the anxiety about quality and what else?
• The 1980s introduced what two significant technological changes?
• What sort of realization settled in by 1988?

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• What is the public web?
• What is the approximate size of the public web in June 2002?
• What is the deep web?
• How does this study characterize the Web's rate of growth?
• What portion of web sites are American?
• What is the extent of the English language on the Web?
• What about the use of formal metadata schemes?

• What is the effect of a high Google ranking in the marketplace of ideas?
• What is googlewashing?
• Describe his analysis of how Google characterizes specialized topics.