Epistemological Implications
17.
Textual/Digital Oscillation changes our attention structures. We experience "gaze migration."
Taking the development of approaches to writing as an example:
- We thought we
were:
- Doing unconscious
expression
- looking through
text
- working toward
Correctness
- know so as
to write about it.
- Instead, we need
to learn (or maybe already be involved in):
- To do self-conscious
design
- to look at text
- to work toward
Effectiveness-Decorum
- to learn so as
to make use.
- These shifts in attention (oscillations/changes in resolution) can be seen across all digital communication forms, not just writing.
Lanham: The electronic
word
Castronova, Synthetic Worlds
