Saturday, September 11, 2010

Publication is the new literacy

07.14.2010 · Posted in Transliteracy

In the last piece in egdge.org Clay Shirky talks about the changes brought about by the Internet and refers to historical events.

To a historical analogy could with the last large increase in the written word make living in 1500 earn, by just to know how to read and dissemination of these skills in the following century had the curious property to make literacy for less professional both important to schreiben.Die; media literacy has been critically lost their jobs at the same time as the clerk.

It is our misfortune by the largest increase in expressive capabilities in the history of mankind to live a disaster because excess breaks more things than scarcity.

The mere fact of being able to publish to a global audience is the new literacy, formerly valuable now so widely available that you can make more money with basic functionality.

I know that this line was tweeted much, but it seems that many people missed the point.He was not say hopes publish a new competence compares publishing on the historical aspect of being read and schreiben.Er adds some clarifications in an interview with James Mustich and Andrew keen on Perlentaucher.de

We have this whole complex words, "publish", "Publisher", "Publicity" "Writer," all jobs or work of making related public.Since it earlier so incredibly difficult, complicated and expensive, easy material in the public, and now it I compare it not ist.So with literacy am - literacy used for a specialist class before the printing press, and much more importantly, before the spread of publishers and the rise of a real publishing industry are reserved.

Including this statement

How it in "here comes everybody," "Society changed when new tools adopt; it changes people human new behaviors goodbye."

Mustich about Shirky a comment and I have often shared in recent times talk - we can't see where we go from here.

What interested you wrote me in what about the printing press and the immediate changes it is advent provoked, as we try the effect of their influence on those who was now unklar.Heute amidst an other massive technological change seeing clearly what happened, and part of the point of your piece is that we can see it either, because we don't know what the behavior will be, which are generated by the technology.

If you don't, Clay Shirky's read have two books, here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations



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