This lecture basically summed up how publishing, as in the process of making something public is ubiquitous.
Its like a sudden glowing halo popped on top of my head when I realize that expressions, facial expressions are a form of publishing. I agree! Publishing is a process of bringing something from the private sphere such as something private, an idea or an opinion, screening it through a medium and transforming said 'something' into the public sphere. In other words, making the invisible visible.
The face IS a medium, its an apparatus we use to let others interpret how we feel about certain issues. However I feel that such a medium is not always something that people would openly use around people. I know some people like to hide what they are thinking and to do so they primarily conceal their facial expressions. Take the Joker for example, a man with a permanent smile, we never really know what he's thinking behind that sinister smile.
Refering back to my first blog about the idea of evolution in the media, I do feel that the readings reflects such a concept. Paywalls in newspapers is an example of something that has changed in the course of evolving technology since the New York Times seems to go through phases in which they slowly change their online subscription systems to match their business goals. They began with a paywall with little free content but slowly changed their strategies to allow more free content.
Take for example the Sydney Morning Herald. The way they handle paywalls is that they give news subscriptions as an option. They don't make it compulsory and they generate income through advertising revenue from the site due to the high levels of traffic (Sydney Morning Herald 2012).
I do feel that all this stuff we heard in the lecture about time based and space based media and natural and unnatural concepts of technology and media seems over complicated. In this day and age, technology has become a hybrid between all these different polar opposites. Take the new iPad that has been reported today, it has voice recognition systems which refers to Orality which is natural to individuals and computer interface keyboards which is literacy. I feel that in the future, technology will converge continuously, hybrids between time based and space based media is already in the now with the creation of computers and electronic data.
Sydney Morning Herald 2012, Australia, accessed 14 May 2012,
<http://www.smh.com.au/>
New iPad 3 VS iPad 2: Retina display; camera; processor and build 2012, online video, Youtube, accessed 14 May 2012,
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaLNgaEpPg>
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