It is all about being published in print. Today, in a world
dominated by the words we read from a screen, to be published by a large
publisher in print is a sign of status. It seems that the elitists in the world
written text only covet what is written on the paper in front of them. To me
this is crazy because being a digital native I grew up reading from paper books
and from reading off a screen. On top of this I currently read 95 percent of my
assignments and pleasure readings from a screen, not a physical text.
Being someone who loves fashion, I am constantly reading reviews of shows (and I am currently doing that because it is of course New York Fashion Week right now) from my favorite designers, getting the scoop of who is doing what and keeping my knowledge of the industry growing. I do all of this reading from a computer. I even read books about fashion from a screen! I deem these writings no less creditable or scholarly than the texts I read in a newspaper or a physical book about fashion. And without the texts I source from online I would not have access to the kinds of information that I want to read about. Just last night I read the review of the Prabal Gurung show only hours after it happened. This quick and accessible text that I read kept me updated about a field I am passionate about. I didn’t care that it wasn’t from a printed source because I feel texts on paper or on a screen have the same creditability.
Being someone who loves fashion, I am constantly reading reviews of shows (and I am currently doing that because it is of course New York Fashion Week right now) from my favorite designers, getting the scoop of who is doing what and keeping my knowledge of the industry growing. I do all of this reading from a computer. I even read books about fashion from a screen! I deem these writings no less creditable or scholarly than the texts I read in a newspaper or a physical book about fashion. And without the texts I source from online I would not have access to the kinds of information that I want to read about. Just last night I read the review of the Prabal Gurung show only hours after it happened. This quick and accessible text that I read kept me updated about a field I am passionate about. I didn’t care that it wasn’t from a printed source because I feel texts on paper or on a screen have the same creditability.
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| Prabal Gurung Fall/Winter 2014 |
The age of physical texts is
gradually coming to and end and it is something that society is going to have
to start accepting more and more. The inevitability of physical texts being
phased out, in my opinion, is imminent and the clout surrounding published
texts will no longer have influence and pull on society.
How you profiled online literature in terms of your interest in fashion adds a new value to the medium. Although like you said we tend to think of the printed word as more valuable, online articles and books are so much more accessible and easily updated than a printed text .
ReplyDeleteI love fashion week! Where's my runway model? Anyway, I'm not sure if it's the technology that grants print technology authority, or the institutions, which institutions could move and are moving their authority to digital texts as well.
ReplyDeleteI can't agree that the age of physical texts is being completely phased out; however, I can acknowledge the fact that there has been a substantial shift in reading and acquiring texts from a digital source over a printed source. It really depends on one's own preferences-the reading experience that one desires- whether that be sitting in a coffee shop with a magazine or newspaper to hold in front of you or scrolling through a blog from the screen of one's computer or phone. I think your best point was the speedy accessibility that the internet provides in comparison to a printed material that one would have to wait to be printed, which is a real set back in regards to news and things that people want to be most readily available in the blink of an eye.
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