Comments on: The New Media Reader – Correct Us! http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/02/the-new-media-reader-correct-us/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: noah http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/02/the-new-media-reader-correct-us/comment-page-1/#comment-235376 noah Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:55:41 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/02/the-new-media-reader-correct-us/#comment-235376 Okay, Matt was the only one to send us a change by this means. We agree with his second suggestion (though the first and third are ones where we'll have to agree to disagree). He'll be given a thanks in the new printing's acknowledgments. For those who are curious, here are some other corrections identified for the new printing: Back of the book: The list of chapters running down the left side is in the wrong order. Currently it reads: 07 Engelbart, 08 Sutherland, 09 Burroughs. It should read: 07 Burroughs, 08 Engelbart, 09 Sutherland. Chapter 3 (pages 55 and 57): The words "this connection" should I read "this connexion". (A mistaken partial regularization in the first printing.) Chapter 21 (page 331): The first note needs an additional capital letter, period, and square bracket. It currently reads: "[included in this volume (◊11)". It should read: "[Included in this volume (◊11).]". Chapter 38 (pages 565-573): The timeline (at the top of the odd numbered pages) is missing its line. Chapter 44 (page 643): The text "Hershman's 1989-1990 Deep Contact" should be changed so the date range is "1984-1989". Okay, Matt was the only one to send us a change by this means. We agree with his second suggestion (though the first and third are ones where we’ll have to agree to disagree). He’ll be given a thanks in the new printing’s acknowledgments.

For those who are curious, here are some other corrections identified for the new printing:

Back of the book:
The list of chapters running down the left side is in the wrong order. Currently it reads: 07 Engelbart, 08 Sutherland, 09 Burroughs. It should read: 07 Burroughs, 08 Engelbart, 09 Sutherland.

Chapter 3 (pages 55 and 57):
The words “this connection” should I read “this connexion”. (A mistaken partial regularization in the first printing.)

Chapter 21 (page 331):
The first note needs an additional capital letter, period, and square bracket. It currently reads: “[included in this volume (◊11)". It should read: "[Included in this volume (◊11).]“.

Chapter 38 (pages 565-573):
The timeline (at the top of the odd numbered pages) is missing its line.

Chapter 44 (page 643):
The text “Hershman’s 1989-1990 Deep Contact” should be changed so the date range is “1984-1989″.

]]> By: Matt Volk http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/02/the-new-media-reader-correct-us/comment-page-1/#comment-231520 Matt Volk Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:25:13 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/2008/04/02/the-new-media-reader-correct-us/#comment-231520 pg 277 paragraph 2 second line reads: there is an inherent structure to media technologically. Baudrillard argues that media serve a social -I think it should read: "....media serve(s) a social...." pg 193 paragraph one line 2 reads: and used in so many contexts that it can be difficult figure out exactly what they were once -I think it should read: "....it can be difficult (to) figure out ....." pg 193 paragraph one line 4-5 reads: hollowly. The idea this phrase brought to the foreground in the 1960s-- that media themselves overwhelm the importance of their "content"--is now.... -I think it should read: "...that media (itself) overwhelm(s) the importance of (its) "content"...." (This last one might be too big of a change.) pg 277 paragraph 2 second line reads: there is an inherent structure to media technologically. Baudrillard argues that media serve a social

-I think it should read: “….media serve(s) a social….”

pg 193 paragraph one line 2 reads: and used in so many contexts that it can be difficult figure out exactly what they were once

-I think it should read: “….it can be difficult (to) figure out …..”

pg 193 paragraph one line 4-5 reads: hollowly. The idea this phrase brought to the foreground in the 1960s– that media themselves overwhelm the importance of their “content”–is now….

-I think it should read: “…that media (itself) overwhelm(s) the importance of (its) “content”….”
(This last one might be too big of a change.)

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