A PAPERLESS FUTURE

In an session with my tutor, i took minutes down to help me understand where i am going with my dissertation. I will take this into consideration when writing my chapters as i am in the process of doing so.

Minutes

Baudrillard

consider ideas around the idea of traces/memento (susan stewart design and evocation material memories?)

internet imaginaire – Patrice flichey

Foam (gallery)

Paper different kinds (what are we loosing)

Artifacts (once yearly magazine) maybe an obsession with people to have these

Becomes an event

People send emails now no letters /kitch- is it becoming more of a hobby or not the norm for us to keep and send

The new generation of people have the lo fi technology as a hark back and use it as more of a kitch thing due to them only knowing online technology as the norm where as I amd the footing from a generation of people that have both to work with

Like the vinyl come back and go away

Has to be cryptic and not descriptive

Visual culture: a reader (mizeroff )

Semiotics

The Size of a Tabloid, The price of a Tabloid, But the intelligence of a Broadsheet

While writing my dissertation (and continued research) i found out that there will be a new paper started by the Independent. I had to go and see what it was about due to the nature of the argument against full digitalisation of media. I really liked the style and the creativness of the paper as it had a new sort of social commentary about it.

Questions to Robin

Here are the questions i will be asking him when interviewing. I will have my Dictaphone with me so i can give him my full attention.

Questions for Robin Baker

1. In your Book ‘Designing the Future: The Computer Transformation of Reality’ You say that the electronic image, will give us it a new form of expression I know this was written a while ago but do you find it more relevant today as technology has surpassed our expectations?

2. You also say “hyper publishing produces 'personal' magazines or books, created by electronic 'agents' responding to individual needs”. Do you think that that technology has been used the most affectively and has been able to reach a wider audience when magazines and other printed publications are for the select few?

3. Why do you think we now have such an array of Blogs, social websites, online news, Webzines, personal commentary websites and do you think this is now better then picking up a, for example a newspaper or magazine which would have a longer ‘shelf life’

4. ‘The i’ is a new newspaper from the Independent group, it is the size of a tabloid, the same price of a tabloid but has the intellectually capacity of a broadsheet. Do you think this is outdated for today’s climate or, in your mind, think that they are a breath of fresh air to a declining industry and changing the way we look at news and current affairs within the printed press?

5. Do you feel that one day a digital library will be in place of a conventional paperback library?

6. Do you think one day books will be replaced by Kindles?

7. I personally have a large collection of Fashion magazines. I love having them to pick up and read but also I love the advertising within them. Do you feel that this is the main issue to declining sales that it is all about the advertisements, or the quality of the content?

8. What would you say is your favorite online publication (if any) and why?

9. What would you say is your favorite printed publication (if any) and why?

10. The I phone generation is what we are know as now, do you think it is a good thing that we have this instant accessibility to obtain information or would it be better and more human to sit and read and take time with what we are taking in?

11. You’re an advocate of a ‘paperless future’, with regards to this interview could you explain more on this issue?

AN interview with an Author, A Director of a College, and a Man with an honorary OBE

Professor Robin Baker OBE has granted me an interview and with this i need to ask him good questions. I believe what i want to ask him will be answered well, irrespective of my thoughts towards him and my biased opinion.