discussion question Group 4 parmbir and sybil

Explain why we as a society should be concerned that shift to digital libraries will leave some printed text behind as previous shifts did, such as the shift from papyrus to codex or manuscript to print. Who decides what is culturally relevant? (93-96)

 

In Bolter The Electronic Book page 80, Remediation means an previous form of media to a new form of media. The example on this page was eBooks. On page 93 Bolter was saying how a physical library with all books with different genres is turning into electronic libraries and the program was called Digital Libraries Initiative where everything available is on the world wide web. On page 96 Bolter described shift in remediation may never be completed due to some reliance from previous forms of media. On page 97 Bolter describes the Encyclopedia going from physical media to the world wide rob to look anything we want when we are researching topic on anything.

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