Ted Striphas
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Great Stuff
Great stuff, Kathleen, and I know you're personally on the cutting edge of helping to re-invent technologies of reading and writing. And indeed I agree with your assessment in the post: it's startling that so few e-readers provide a robust writ ... -
The Oprah Brand
I like how you've challenged the notion that Oprah is a brand. Indeed, the term hardly encompasses the extraordinary reach of both the woman, Oprah Gail Winfrey, and her media holdings. Personally, though, I don't find the term "culture i ... -
Re: Too Big to Fail?
Covering Her Bets
A fascinating post-- and I especially like the parallels you've drawn to the "too big to fail" theme and the broader neoliberal political-economic project. I knew Winfrey's ratings were suffering, but I wasn't fully clear on the ... -
Re: What Are Books?
A Late Addition
A wonderful post, Lisa, and a perfect captstone for the week. I want to riff off of your point about the portability of printed books and how new technological platforms render that aspect of them problematic. It's intriguing to me how, on the one h ... -
History & the Impersonal
Hi, Lisa. Thanks very much for your comment. As an an admirer of your work, I was particularly excited to hear from you. I suppose I'd respond to your question in two ways. First, while I use the term "mass culture" frequently in my own ... -
Apples and Oranges and Fruit
Thanks for the comment, Elizabeth. I suppose it would be possible and perhaps desirable to, as you say, expose the particularities of mass cultural institutions be comparing them with one another. This would likely lead in the direction of specificity a ... -
The Burdens of Media Convergence
Interesting post, Hollis. I'm intrigued by how authors are called upon increasingly to work beyond the medium with which they're primarily associated, namely, the book. The responsibility to maintain a blog, post videos on YouTube, and/or make ... -
Cultural leveling?
An intriguing post, Elizabeth, though I don't share the perspective that copyright is a strictly reader-centric concern. In any case, I do wonder if, ultimately, the trajectory of e-readers is in the direction of cultural leveling, and if that is in ... -
Some thoughts
Your last point is particularly intriguing, Elizabeth, especially in light of the growing prevalence of recommendation features such as those you find on Amazon.com. The displacement of juman judgment into algorithmic form raises all sorts of questions a ...