MIT media studies prof on media’s future: Virtual and augmented reality
...Uricchio also sees modern Big Media as an organic development of a world-view around since the 16th century but especially strong since the late 19th, which prioritizes the fixed, authoritative text. Emerging around the same time as the mathematical perspective that fixes the world visually in the same way that it does textually, the early modern canonic text is, according to Uricchio’s thesis, the residue of a tradition that has “privileged cultures of authorship, authority, and textual stability.” Ebooks and modern forms of collaborative fiction can be seen as an antidote to this view, because they are open to constant revision and reshaping, mutable and expansible. And Uricchio sees the collaborative approach to creation evolving in projects like community journalism, with a civic focus, which may succeed in taking power away from both traditional and new authority structures.
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