Presentation Reflection: Chapter 6

Our presentation on chapter 6 "Refashioned Dialogues" presented was clear and easy to follow. Communication, dialogue specifically, is always changing and growing with technology. Digital text has changed the way we speak with one another and our presentation had a strong emphasis on that.
We wanted to take a light humorous approach to prove some of the points we made. I think this was an effective way to make the subject more relatable and not boring. An example of this would be when we used the Movie poster from Hoodwinked. This may have started out as a joke to us because Bolter used a word like hoodwinked and it was the only thing that caught our attention on that specific page, but then we found this movie. Learning about how this movie was collaborated from classic fairytale characters made it have actual relevance to our presentation. It related to how fairytales used to be spoken orally and how stories have changed in dialogue to printed text to digital text. I think it helped the class pay attention and want to listen. We also used different mediums to communicate the chapter, visually stimulating the class.


An image of a New York Times newspaper and a tablet with the same New York Times edition showed how digital text is trying to copy the look of printed text and even how print text is trying to look more digital. We were asked why we thought that was happening and my response was because of commercialism and money. People who would prefer a digital form of text are more likely to buy a printed text that looks like digital text because it appeals to them and their needs. More and more books and newspapers are trying to look like eBooks and webpages. The same thing has been happening with websites and blogs trying to replicate books, notebooks, and physical paper. We chose the two productions of Taylor Mali's poem because it really showed the difference of communication between visually watching him speak the words and visually watching the words as he said them. We used a bunch of other images to similarly support our points.



If I could have changed anything about the presentation, I would have allotted more time to relate Bolter's chapter to even more modern day changes in dialogue. If we could have incorporated text messages and Instant messengers like AIM, facebook chat and gchat, we could have related how dialogue changes to each and everyone firsthand.
Text messaging has changed dialogue and the way we communicate forever and I feel like it would have brought on a million more points with Bolter's chapter about refashioned dialogues. Short hands, incorrect grammar and many other issues within our language becomes apparent when looking at text messages. These can be seen as obstacles to text remediating to digital forms and it would have been interesting to hear what the rest of the class had to say about it.