It is 1961. California. A salesman has his motorized roller skates refuelled at a gas station. In a sense he has his potential to drive sales augmented – he will be moving faster, transmitting the “marketing message” to more people, with higher efficacy. And just as he gains speed to reach yet another door… anContinue Weaving
The Web of People and Its Dialogic Potential: A Dialogue with prof. Michael Kent
Foraging the Web of science in my first PhD year, in-between somewhat monotonous papers and dry language, suddenly a “blinking” word-portal caught my attention and the tectonics of the world behind my eye moved. The word was “enthymematic”. Little I knew back then that it was a word that will slowly but steadily lead meContinue Weaving
Digital Text as a Phenomenon of Culture
These are my slides from the International Forum of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2019 where I talked about how I saw digital text. What makes digital text different? I. Text-specific differences Hypertext Ease of publishing, distribution, access (search/retrieval) Non-linearity, fragmentation Potentially all kinds of containers (DNA included)Continue Weaving
For the Love of the Web
In 1991, the year when U2 (my favourite band) released the album Achtung Baby, the World Wide Web went live! It was on 6 August 1991and there was no fanfare in the global press and in fact, most people around the world didn’t even know what the Internet was, as the people from The NextContinue Weaving
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