Woolley and Bolter & Grusin were more complicated to understand. The way that they discribed cyberspace becasuse of their use of examples and vocabulary was fuzzy to me and therefore hard to understand. In Bolter & Grusin's article they repeat the words Immediacy, Hypermediated, Mediated, and Remediation and didn't, I thought, clearly explain them. I am not sure if I should have had prior knowleadge of there terms but I looked them up in the online dictionary and some of the words were not there or their definitions were still unclear to me. In Heim's essay he is more straight foward and easier to understand. His examples make sence and are well formulated.
How will our the immersion, interactivity, and information intensity of cyberspaces affect our experiences with respect to: practices for reading and writing, developing criteria for "good" writing" and "truth," formulating ethics of authorship and ownership?
If virtual reatity like immersion, interactivity and information intensity is avalible for all individuals using the internet then there will be no need for writing, or good writing, everything will become visual. People will read less and write less. ...
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