Change and Continuity

20071030

_taewoo kim

Company need 'revolution'. But, users don't like totally new thing. They don't hate it, they just feel constrained. So, company leave 'continuity' in new thing.

When I was very young, I didn't agree that. Because, I felt "all about computer is not difficult". And I knew "I'm early adaptor". But, now it is not true. 'NEW or CHANGE' is a nuisance. AH! It's a serious matter....T-T


# NOTE

- Polarised over the degree of new media's newness.
- Hinges upon the disciplinary frameworks and discourses
- Revolutionary - a historical perspective

1.3.2 Measuring 'newness'

How new or how large changes
-> We need to establish from what previous states things hae changed

• Brian Winston :: observes, the concept of a revolution
• Kevin Robins :: whatever might be 'new' about digital technologies, there is something old in the imaginary signification of "imagerevolution"

Three possibilities

1. how can we know that new thing is made from
2. familiar in everyday use or consumption
   lose out curiosity and vigilance, ceasing to ask questions
3. degrees of nevelty
   new media buzzword interactivity

** im-mediacy / hyper-mediacy

** a scanner darkly
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film by Richard Linklater based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a huge drug addiction epidemic. To give the film its distinct look, the movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage.
The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater, and it stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rory Cochrane. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the film's executive producers. A Scanner Darkly was released in July 2006 in limited release, and then widely released later that month. The movie was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2007.
The title is a reference to a verse in the Christian Bible, 1 Corinthians: 13:12: "For now we see through a glass, darkly."