For this week’s blog post, I am choosing to respond to Lev Manovitch’s “What is Visualization”. I thought this reading was very interesting to because it really put into perspective how far as a society we have come in regards to our communication, but even more so, the subcategory of visualized communicatinon.  Visualized communication can be dated pretty far back, pretty ancient, and each visual presentation, demonstrated or presented a story. Stories are what they had, myths, legends, family history was the history of the time. That is what was documented. Slowly but surely, we build up to some sort of textual documentation, and eventually, after constant editing and progression, we end up to today, and how out visual communication is transcribed in this day and age. I think it is so cool and fascinating to see how far the world has come. With our paintings, and art, and texts, and stories, it’s amazing what could be accomplished with the power of effort, science, and imagination.

As technology evolves over the course of years we are able to communicate through different ways besides the primitive use of our mouths. We have been using our mouths since the dawn of time, then we developed writing many centuries ago which allowed us to put our thoughts on paper. This was a game changer because we can keep a history of what we speak on a physical form which can not be changed and be held around for years. Books and written documents allowed us to keep records and show proof. Unlike a game of telephone where the premise is whatever you said to one person may be changed as infomation spreads. This causes misinformation and false facts.

We then later devolped a form of spreading infomation to other parts of the world which is letters and the postal system. Before the invention of phones to help us talk long distances in the 20th century we had letters which were in written forms. It started off by having people travel on foot or vehicles in long distances to reach the destination. This may take days or even weeks for a full transaction.

In recent times we have created an virtual form of mail, which is e-mail. It is the quickets way to post messeges from deiffent parts of the world. The great benefit of it is that its almost instant. As long as both parties have a internet connection they can both recieve e-mails. Unlike regualer mail which takes much longer.

For this weeks post i will write about  chapter 3 “Emails, Letters, and Post” by Mark Nunes. i found this article interesting because it explained the history of handwriting and the transition to email and typing. written text was in a way overthrow ed by email and electronic text which was the norm. as  technology advances, how fast we write,send, and recieve mail has also quickly escalated. i remember my aunt telling me stories of having to write letters to people in other states and even other countries. she would tell me how long and tedious it was send information from one person to another. as technology progressed, information became readily available. the rate of how fast we can send info back and forth improved so fast, it was very similar to having a phone conversation . i even noticed how text and email advanced from its earlier days. i remember writing emails  with aol, having to wait for the application to start up, the glitches, and the waiting. now we recieve hundreds of emails a day without a second thought. i find the rate of improvement scary as it is common to send a text or email so fast, i fear we as people will heavily rely on this technolgy in the long run, which may negatively affect our literacy rate for the current and especially the future generations.

Works Cited

-Nunes, Mark. “The Email, The Letter, and The Post.” from Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

For this week’s blog post I decided to respond to “Emails, Letters, and the Post” by Mark Nunes. In this reading he talks about the development of sending email to person-to-person through communication that was growing at a rapid rate. Email is something we used frequently to communicate. Email is similar to sending a letter; the only difference is instead of using pen & paper, you use a keyboard to type a message on a computer. According to Nunes states, “email simulates and actualizes this system of point- to-point connection as a lived space. But as an enacted network of exchange, email dispatches packets across global/geographical space of networks and phone lines in a manner fat removed from site-to-site postal mapping of dispatch and delivery.” This quote makes me think about how fortunate we have the access to send email messages to anyone we want. It’s way much faster and easier to send an email. I believe if it wasn’t for an email we would have to write letters instead of just sending it to the Post office or having to find a mailbox.

Works Citied
Nunes, Mark. “The Email, The Letter, and The Post.” from Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

In this week’s blog post, I will be talking about Mark Nunes’ Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. In one particular chapter called Email, the Letter, and the Post, he talks about how people have adapted from writing letters to email. I agree with his point. In today’s society, people email each other all the time. We as a society has moved from writing to typing. Nunes explains this by saying “In this regard, electronic mail, with its (ap)proximate immediacy, appears as the telos of “tele-graphe”: now the letter can be “here” and “there” at the same time”(Nunes, 2006). I believe people are more in favor of sending emails because it’s faster than sending a physical letter. It will probably remain as the main mode of online communication for people. Most likely in the future when technology has fully taken over, letters would become an ancient thing. Post offices will probably still be around but not a lot. E-communication would be the way people from many distances communicate with others. Nunes also wrote “With the emergence of electronic discourse, the point-to-point can and still does exist, but only to the extent that it can perpetuate a simulation of this postal representation of space”(Nunes, 2006). This further explains that lettering and the post can only go so far in this world of emailing.

For this weeks blog I will be reflecting on  “The Coming of the Microcomputer”, While I was reading all I could think about was the change computers have gone through over the years. I remember when I was little we had an HP desktop computer. It was big and has the huge piece in the back. I was born in 1994, we still had the old computers that when you turned them on the computer would take forever to load and all the codes would come up, loading, and reloading. If it didnt work you would have to turn it off, wait 30 seconds to turn it on again. Years go by and we save our entire lives in iphones and samsungs. Every year iphone comes out with new phones that doesnt really have any new features. It is just the thought of having the new phone with a better camera, a better program or new feature. Computers have down sized making it more convenient to carry it around. Technology has changed the world drastically through the use of cell phones and computers. They have completely revolutionized today’s society making life more convenient. Communication has changed because of the advancement that technology has made in todays day and age.