Quoting "Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar@luther.edu>:
elw@stderr.org wrote:
anybody else got a paradigm in mind that they think relates this stuff?
Siegfried Kracauer has one I'm fond of, if only for its brevity: "Each medium has a specific nature which invites certain kinds of communications while obstructing others." Nice if only because it suggests that mediums conceal and confuse as much as they transmit and make available; that mediums develop certain formal tendencies based on their material & organizational substrate; that it's possible to apprehend and enjoy a medium's operations in and of themselves, quite apart from the content they carry. --------------------------------------- Bob Rehak Department of Communication and Culture Mottier Hall, 1790 East Tenth St. Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-9700 Associate Editor, North America Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal will be published by Sage starting 2006. Subscribe now for a free online subscription! www.sagepub.co.uk/animation