June 12th, 2010 by Mary Hamilton
What I wanted to do today was to write a blog post about how authorial identity affects the construction of meaning in articles published online. I wanted to use @caitlinmoran’s brilliant interview with Lady Gaga to talk about how Roland Barthes‘ 1977 essay on the Death of the Author might apply (a) to construction of [...]
May 25th, 2010 by Mary Hamilton
Yesterday, Nick Booth at Podnosh posted a transcript of a conversation on Twitter where he asked for useful analogies to describe the internet to people who’ve only experienced radio and tv. The conversation – and the comments – got me thinking about the way metaphors limit what we can understand about the online world and [...]