Cafe Culturel - Celebrity Culture: How long can it last? Leicester, 4 July 2007, 6.30pm
| 4 July 2007 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Cafe Culturel upcoming event…
Celebrity Culture: How long can it last?
Wednesday July 4th, 6.30pm LCB Depot, 31 Rutland St, Leicester, LE1 1RE
The speakers include Dan Davies, the new editor of Metro East Midlands, and hopefully an expert in celebrity culture from Leicester University…
For more information see below or visit www.cafeculturel.org.uk
No commentsProf Alan Liu, Distinguished Seminar, 2pm, 4th July 2007, IOCT, De Montfort University, Leicester
| 4 July 2007 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
How Can We Improve Online Reading? — The University of California Transliteracies Project
Browse, jump, search, filter, aggregate, bookmark, annotate — these signature reading practices of the Internet are both our history and future. History, because recent research in the history of the book, history of reading, and cognitive science fields shows that “extensive” reading across an amplitude of texts (contrasted with intensive, holy, or close reading) have had a long evolution. They were complaining about information overload as early as the 17th-century. Future, because even amid the flood of multimedia, text is extending in new ways. Much of so-called “Web 2.0″ is text-centric: e.g., blogs, wikis, social networking, folksonomical tagging (not to mention ever-present email).
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