Laurie N. Taylor
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Affordances on page and screen
Chris Ware's use of the touchable screen interface is interesting considering some of the affordances for print comics. For instance, in Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art, the chapter on "The Frame" includes sections on "The ... -
Navigable Space
Meanwhile is a really fascinating example in terms of the relationship of narrative and space and navigable space that has implications for digital comics, narrative works, and other interfaces. For instance, digital libraries, archives, collections, and ... -
Text Placement on Changing Panels
First, thanks for sharing your comic! One aspect of this example that I find particularly interesting is the use of text. With the full screen of the iPad used for a single panel, in some cases, it seems like you're exploiting the possibilities of th ... -
That's a great question!
That's a great question! Right now, unfortunately there's not a great answer, but there is a lot of promise. Many currently aren't designing tools that are outside of rigid boundaries and are instead building small sets of materials in silo ... -
The entire concept of
The entire concept of television-land as a place of cliches as easy metaphors for reducing reality to a short time slot is also interesting in an era of reality TV where the scripted and less scripted shows use real people and then reconfigures them into ... -
The history and use of
The history and use of cookbooks is fascinating for their specialized writing format and for the cultural information they contain. It seems strange that this video heaps so many rules-as-norms onto the young wife, Margie, while also being so unaware of w ... -
This is a great video,
This is a great video, especially because it embodies what Vannevar Bush warned of in his 1945 report "Science the Endless Frontier," that colleges and universities need to return to exploration instead of simply applied research: "The trad ... -
As information literacy
As information literacy becomes a more important part of college curriculum and as libraries shift from places that hold books to information access points--with research help, courses, and physical spaces conducive to accessing information--libraries hav ... -
Call to Action, we can make it happen today!
Thank you for a great piece! I was on a conference call with a colleague today who shared the same story: he regularly used an article in his teaching, and then one semester it was gone. Not erased, but removed from access because the library could no lon ...