An overview - good for final presentation.

Intro:

• big shift in technology 
• for and against the digital era - hipsters. 
• two different medium. should not be seen as rivals. 
• Discussion print vs. scren according to space, cost, grid, access.

Historical point of view:

• How it all started - communication. the need to communicate had been evident since the years of the cavemen. 
• Print... because no tecnology was available at the time. After years it was very limited therefore, print was mass produced. 

Lit Review:

• Brandom Keim article, Stefan sageister made you look by Peter Hall and Jeff Gomez's Print is dead. 

• Keim's view: position you are in and that individual person ..(is what makes print better than screen or vice versa)

• Sense of ownership - linked to Sagmeister and Gomez and discussion. 

• Sagmeister made you look backs up my essay for what it actually is. Interactive and innovative - the same feeling would not be able to be replicated on screen. 

• interaction - feel of paper, getting the book out of the perspex cover, the print on the edge of the paper which when bend shows text. 

• Gomez - medium not important, it's the content that counts. 

Discuss: 

• reading on different platforms - pros and cons. 

• pros and cons of the actual two different medium. 

• different use - long text vs. articles. (in depth reading vs. skimming through)

• history - not naturally born with the ability to read. Typography is something man made, Reading is a skill we need to practice to attain. 

• Price - affordability.  ebook prices vs.  paper back. magazines online vs printed (monthly membership)

• digital screen at school. why it helps, what to do to make it better, should it be used and why? helps children with cognitive disabilities such as autism and dyslexia (through interactivity of digital screens).

Conclude:

integrate you opinion without saying ''I''.

• both need to improve. You can compare on contrast them for ages but at the end of the day one needs to remember that they are different medium. Instead of lashing out at the different two, the best solution would be to get both aspects and come up with a solution for them to work best together. Why attack something when together, you can make them better and lead to a better future? 

• There is no real telling of what is going to happen next. People are inventing and proposing ideas, and technology just keeps getting better. Therefore we never know what concepts and ideas people are going to be proposing in aid of the the mediums heading to the better. 

Reference:

Bury, L., 2013. Young adult readers 'prefer printed to ebooks’. The Guardian, [online] 25 November. Available at: <http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/25/young-adult-readers-prefer-printed-ebooks.> [Accessed 22 January 2015].

Fluent in 3 months, 2010. Books are dead - it's time to ditch 15th century technology. [online] Available at: <http://www.fluentin3months.com/ebooks/. > [Accessed 22 January 2015].

Gomez, J., 2009. Print is Dead: Book in Our Digital Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Hall, P., 2009. Sagmeister: Made You Look. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Harry Ransom Center, 2013. Print Before Gutenberg. [online] Available at: < http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenbergbible/history/#top> . [Accessed 12 January 2015].

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Keim, B. , 2014. Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be ... Paper. WIRED, [online] Available at: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/. [Accessed 13 December 2014].

Kennedy, G., 2012. Using iPads with students with intellectual disabilities. Spectronics blog [blog] 15 may. Available at: <http://www.spectronics.com.au/blog/tools-and-resources/using-ipads-with-students-with-intellectual-disabilities/>  [Accessed 21 January 2015].

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