Das Buch im Zeitalter der digitalen Medien. Von den Anfängen bis in die Zukunft

Der Autor geht von den Fragen aus, ob im Blick auf die Entwicklung der digitalen Medien das Ende des Buches absehbar ist und welche einzigartigen Vorteile das Buch heute noch bietet. Nach einem Rückblick auf die Anfänge und Geschichte des Buches werden als Besonderheiten des Buches gegenüber digitalen Medien u.a. aufgeführt: es speichert 'langsamer', fixiert dafür aber linear und abstrakt; es bleibt 'hand'-habbar und überall verfügbar; es ist ganzheitlich und kompensiert in seiner Traditions- und Geschichtsbindung die Flüchtigkeit der Netzwerkmedien. Andererseits wandelt sich das Buch auch mit den digitalen Medien, etwa in Herstellungs- und Vertriebsfunktionen und wird dadurch tendenziell zum Elitemedium. Es ist im Vergleich zu den 'leichten' digitalen Medien ein 'schweres' Medium und kann prinzipeil so, wie es einen Anfang hatte, auch ein Ende haben, wenn sein spezielles Leistungsvermögen nicht mehr gefragt wäre. Das ist im jetzigen Zeitalter der digitalen Medien jedoch noch nicht absehbar.EnglishWerner Faulstich: Books in the age of digital media. From the beginnings to the future The author starts out with the question whether in the age of digital media developments an end of book is in sight or whether books still have unique features. After an historical view on the origin and the importance of books in the past he describes some special characteristics of books in contrast to digital means: They store material much slower but in a linearly and abstractly way. Therefore they are better to handle and always at one's disposal. They areintegral and by their tradition and history they compensate for the quickness and shortness of networks. On the other hand, books arealso changingwith the upcoming of digitalising, for example in ways of production and distribution. In tendecy, books may become a medium for elite people. In comparison to the "light" digital media, books are "heavy". In principle, as they have had a beginning they also could have an end. However, at present there is no end apparent

“Novelization” as an aesthetic and media issue: Alien – a case study

There is no literature (e.g. a novel, feature film) without a medium (e.g. a book, film), but one should be clearly differentiated from the other. Particular works can only be compared based on a comparison made between particular means of expression, i.e. media. A production-related and aesthetic approach, which has been regarded as unscientific for a long time, should be replaced by the much more appropriate media-related and aesthetic approach. Werner Faulstich and Ricarda Strobel’s reflections on the novelization of film refer to Ridley Scott’s picture titled Alien (1979), Richard J. Anobile’s movie novel (photonovel) which is based on Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson’s comics as well as to Alan Dean Foster’s novelized screenplays. Moreover, references are also made to two popular-science books: Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross’s The Book of Alien (New York 1979) and H.R. Giger’s Giger’s Alien (Basel 1979), which are treated as “books written on the basis of a film”. The film Alien deals, in a disguised form, with the topic of a man’s fear of a woman as the one who gives birth. It describes the sequence of processes that occur in a woman’s body, from conception and pregnancy to birth, as seen by a man who is “on the outside”. A man perceives a woman’s reproductive capacity, which is unattainable to him, as something alien and disturbing.2223125914Przestrzenie Teori

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Music and Media – From Ancient Times to The Present. A Historical Essay

Music and Media – From Ancient Times to The Present. A Historical EssayThe relationship between music and media is closer than it is obvious at first sight. That includes primary media such as the singer or the theatre performance of an opera, print media such as sheet music and music books, electronic media like the record, the tape, radio, film and television, and the recent digital media such as the world wide web, the compact disc or the i-pod.If turned historically, we can realize a chain of media expressing and describing the history of music – from the ancient priestess and singers over the aoide and the rhapsode in old Greek culture presenting epic poetry and narrative literature up to church and choir singers in Christian churches, from mine singers, hymnbooks and troubadours in the Middle Ages up to ballad singers and street musicians selling music sheets and books in the 18th century, from music performance as live music up to recorded and canned music and finally a kind of quarry music allowing everyone a subjective and eclectic selection. The functional history of music follows inevitably the history of media.The relationship between music and media is closer than it is obvious at first sight. That includes primary media such as the singer or the theatre performance of an opera, print media such as sheet music and music books, electronic media like the record, the tape, radio, film and television, and the recent digital media such as the world wide web, the compact disc or the i-pod.If turned historically, we can realize a chain of media expressing and describing the history of music – from the ancient priestess and singers over the aoide and the rhapsode in old Greek culture presenting epic poetry and narrative literature up to church and choir singers in Christian churches, from mine singers, hymnbooks and troubadours in the Middle Ages up to ballad singers and street musicians selling music sheets and books in the 18th century, from music performance as live music up to recorded and canned music and finally a kind of quarry music allowing everyone a subjective and eclectic selection. The functional history of music follows inevitably the history of media

Muzyka i medium. Szkic historiograficzny od początków do dzisiaj

The relationship between music and media is closer than it is obvious at first sight. That includes primary media such as the singer or the theatre performance of an opera, print media such as sheet music and music books, electronic media like the record, the tape, radio, film and television, and the recent digital media such as the world wide web, the compact disc or the i-pod. If turned historically, we can realize a chain of media expressing and describing the history of music – from the ancient priestess and singers over the aoide and the rhapsode in old Greek culture presenting epic poetry and narrative literature up to church and choir singers in Christian churches, from mine singers, hymnbooks and troubadours in the Middle Ages up to ballad singers and street musicians selling music sheets and books in the 18th century, from music performance as live music up to recorded and canned music and finally a kind of quarry music allowing everyone a subjective and eclectic selection. The functional history of music follows inevitably the history of media