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See also Net media, Distros#Media, Distros#Audio/visual, Streaming, Sharing, etc.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_(communication) - the singular form of which is medium) is the collective communication outlets or tools that are used to store and deliver information or data. It is either associated with communication media, or the specialized communication businesses such as: print media and the press, photography, advertising, cinema, broadcasting (radio and television), and/or publishing.












  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing - a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_creation - the contribution of information to any media and most especially to digital media for an end-user/audience in specific contexts. Content is "something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing or any of various arts" for self-expression, distribution, marketing and/or publication. Typical forms of content creation include maintaining and updating web sites, blogging, photography, videography, online commentary, the maintenance of social media accounts, and editing and distribution of digital media. A Pew survey described content creation as the creation of "the material people contribute to the online world."
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing - the process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information — the activity of making information available to the general public. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content for the same. Also, the word publisher can refer to the individual who leads a publishing company or an imprint or to a person who owns/heads a magazine.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-publishing - the publication of any book or other media by its author without the involvement of an established publisher. A self-published physical book is said to have been privately printed. Self-publishing is not limited to physical books. E-books, pamphlets, sales brochures, websites, and other media are commonly self-published.


"The core of McLuhan’s theory, and the key idea to start with in explaining him, is his definition of media as extensions of ourselves. McLuhan writes: “It is the persistent theme of this book that all technologies are extensions of our physical and nervous systems to increase power and speed” (90) and, “Any extension, whether of skin, hand, or foot, affects the whole psychic and social complex. Some of the principle extensions, together with some of their psychic and social consequences, are studied in this book” (4). From the premise that media, or technologies (McLuhan’s approach makes “media” and “technology” more or less synonymous terms), are extensions of some physical, social, psychological, or intellectual function of humans, flows all of McLuhan’s subsequent ideas. Thus, the wheel extends our feet, the phone extends our voice, television extends our eyes and ears, the computer extends our brain, and electronic media, in general, extend our central nervous system.

"In McLuhan’s theory language too is a medium or technology (although one that does not require any physical object outside of ourselves) because it is an extension, or outering, of our inner thoughts, ideas, and feelings—that is, an extension of inner consciousness. McLuhan sees the enormous implications of the development of language for humans when he writes: “It is the extension of man in speech that enables the intellect to detach itself from the vastly wider reality. Without language . . . human intelligence would have remained totally involved in the objects of its attention” (79). Thus, spoken language is the key development in the evolution of human consciousness and culture and the medium from which subsequent technological extensions have evolved.

"But recent extensions via electronic technology elevate the process of technological extension to a new level of significance: “Whereas all previous technology (save speech, itself) had, in effect, extended some part of our bodies, electricity may be said to have outered the central nervous system itself, including the brain” (247). Thus, pre-electric extensions are explosions of physical scale outward, while electronic technology is an inward implosion toward shared consciousness, a change that has significant implications. McLuhan states: “Our new electric technology that extends our senses and nerves in a global embrace has large implications for the future of language”

See New media



  • TV Tropes - THE ALL-DEVOURING POP-CULTURE WIKI. Merriam-Webster defines trope as a "figure of speech." For creative writer types, tropes are more about conveying a concept to the audience without needing to spell out all the details. The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media. Tropes transcend television. They reflect life. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere. [1]


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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex - the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term codex is often used for ancient manuscript books, with handwritten contents. A codex, much like the modern book, is bound by stacking the pages and securing one set of edges by a variety of methods over the centuries, yet in a form analogous to modern bookbinding. Modern books are divided into paperback (or softback, and those bound with stiff boards, called hardbacks. Elaborate historical bindings are called treasure bindings. At least in the Western world, the main alternative to the paged codex format for a long document was the continuous scroll, which was the dominant form of document in the ancient world. Some codices are continuously folded like a concertina, in particular the Maya codices and Aztec codices, which are actually long sheets of paper or animal skin folded into pages. The Ancient Romans developed the form from wax tablets. The gradual replacement of the scroll by the codex has been called the most important advance in book making before the invention of the printing press. The codex transformed the shape of the book itself, and offered a form that has lasted ever since. The spread of the codex is often associated with the rise of Christianity, which early on adopted the format for the Bible. First described in the 1st century of the Common Era, when the Roman poet Martial praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around 300 CE, and had completely replaced it throughout what was by then a Christianized Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript - abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural, was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has come to be understood to further include any written, typed, or word-processed copy of an author's work, as distinguished from the rendition as a printed version of the same. Before the arrival of prints, all documents and books were manuscripts. Manuscripts are not defined by their contents, which may combine writing with mathematical calculations, maps, music notation, explanatory figures, or illustrations.



Paper

See also *nix#Printing



  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_data_storage - refers to the use of paper as a data storage device. This includes writing, illustrating, and the use of data that can be interpreted by a machine or is the result of the functioning of a machine. A defining feature of paper data storage is the ability of humans to produce it with only simple tools and interpret it visually. Computer memory and data storage types General Volatile RAM Historical Non-volatile ROM NVRAM Early-stage NVRAM Analog recording Optical In development Historical vte Though now mostly obsolete, paper was once an important form of computer data storage as both paper tape and punch cards were a common staple of working with computers before the 1980s.







https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/nyt-opinion-oped-redesign.html

Pamphlets

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet - an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding,. Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a leaflet or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book.



  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet_wars - refer to any protracted argument or discussion through printed medium, especially between the time the printing press became common, and when state intervention like copyright laws made such public discourse more difficult. The purpose was to defend or attack a certain perspective or idea. Pamphlet wars have occurred multiple times throughout history, as both social and political platforms. Pamphlet wars became viable platforms for this protracted discussion with the advent and spread of the printing press. Cheap printing presses, and increased literacy made the late 17th century a key stepping stone for the development of pamphlet wars, a period of prolific use of this type of debate. Over 2200 pamphlets were published between 1600–1715 alone. Pamphlet wars are generally credited for powering many key social changes of the era, including the Reformation and the Revolution Controversy, the English philosophical debate set off by the French Revolution.


Books

See also Language

Notebooks

Covers

Manuals

E-books

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book - electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent. E-books can be read on dedicated e-reader devices, but also on any computer device that features a controllable viewing screen, including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones.



Free


Search

  • https://github.com/Tmplt/bookwyrm - a TUI-based program written in C++17 which, given some input data, searches for matching ebooks and academic papers on various sources. During runtime, all found items are presented in a menu, where you can choose which items you want to download. An item can be viewed for details, which will be fetched from some database (unless the source itself holds enough data), such as the Open Library or WorldCat. A screen holding logs from worker threads is available by pressing TAB. All unread logs are printed to std{out,err} upon program termination.


Software



calibre
  • calibre - a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.



GnomeBooks
Bookworm
  • Bookworm - A simple ebook reader for Elementary OS. Read the books you love without having to worry about the different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc. This version supports EPUB, PDF and Comics (CBR and CBZ) formats with support for more formats to follow soon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196489

Gutenberg


Readarr
  • Readarr - a ebook collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new books from your favorite authors and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them.
Kavita
  • Kavita - Lighting fast with a slick design, Kavita is a rocket fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends. a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with a focus for manga and the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection.

Creating




Hardware

  • https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book - aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves. The Open Book should be comprehensible: the reader should be able to look at it and understand, at least in broad strokes, how it works. It should be extensible, so that a reader with different needs can write code and add accessories that make the book work for them. It should be global, supporting readers of books in all the languages of the world. Most of all, it should be open, so that anyone can take this design as a starting point and use it to build a better book.

Newspaper

Zines

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine - short for magazine or fanzine, is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine. Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation. A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and popularized within science fiction fandom, entering the Oxford English Dictionary in 1949. Popularly defined within a circulation of 1,000 or fewer copies, in practice many zines are produced in editions of fewer than 100. Among the various intentions for creation and publication are developing one's identity, sharing a niche skill or art, or developing a story, as opposed to seeking profit. Zines have served as a significant medium of communication in various subcultures, and frequently draw inspiration from a "do-it-yourself" philosophy that disregards the traditional conventions of professional design and publishing houses, proposing an alternative, confident, and self-aware contribution. Handwritten zines, or carbon zines, are individually made, emphasizing a personal connection between creator and reader, turning imagined communities into embodied ones


  • Edinburgh Zine Library - a volunteer-run archive and reference library of contemporary zines. We are currently looking for a new home - to understand why we moved visit here. Founded in November 2017, our collection contains over 400 zines from around the world. We have also run workshops and events, and organise the annual Edinburgh Zine Festival.



Comics

Software

Webcomics


Manga

  • Tachiyomi - Free and open source manga reader for Android



Visual novel


Reading

Scanning


unpaper

  • unpaper - a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before performing optical character recognition (OCR).


Paperless



Papermerge

Historical


Resources

Audiobooks



Audible


Booksonic

Moving image

See also Video


  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Cinema - by Gene Youngblood (1970), the first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts.[1] In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. He describes various types of filmmaking utilizing new technology, including film special effects, computer art, video art, multi-media environments and holography.


Film

  • Wikibooks - the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.
  • IMDb - the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
  • 0xDB - A Movie Database


  • Vpeeker shows you newly-posted Vines in realtime, so sit back and watch the world in 6 second bites.
  • Random movie picker is selector where you can pick movie or film by random parameters like genre , year and rating.Discover random movie and have fun with random movie picker.
  • agoodmovietowatch finds great movies that you haven’t seen, decisively ending the interminable hours of “what are we gonna watch” currently plaguing our world.
  • movieo - Deciding what to watch next? Discover, organize and track over 250,000 movies. [6]
  • http://www.canistream.it/ CanIStream.It is a free service created by Urban Pixels that allows you to search across the most popular streaming, rental, and purchase services to find where a movie is available. If the movie you're looking for is not available, just sign-up, set a reminder and voila we will shoot you an email when your chosen service makes the movie available. It's simple and fast.


  • The Pixar Theory - All of the Pixar movies actually exist within the same universe!?


  • Twitch is one of the most read film websites in the entire world and has become daily reading for festival programmers, film producers, film buyers, and tens of thousands of fans every day who share Mr. Brown's belief that there's no point in talking about the same five films that every other site in the world is talking about.

Television

See TV


Teletext

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext - or broadcast teletext, is a television information retrieval service created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s by the Philips Lead Designer for VDUs, John Adams. Teletext is a means of sending pages of text and simple geometric shapes from mosaic blocks to a VBI decoder equipped television screen by use of a number of reserved vertical blanking interval lines that together form the dark band dividing pictures horizontally on the television screen. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including news, weather and TV schedules. Paged subtitle (or closed captioning) information is also transmitted within the television signal.






Telegraphy



Telephone

See also Radio#Mobile phone, VoIP

UK

USA


Answering machine


Caller ID


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Pager

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POCSAG - an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. The name is an acronym of the Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group, the name of the group that developed the code under the chairmanship of the British Post Office that used to operate most telecommunications in Britain before privatization.Before the development and adoption of the POCSAG code, pagers used one of several proprietary codes such as GOLAY. In the 1990s new paging codes were developed that offered higher data transmission rates and other advanced features such as European and Network roaming.The POCSAG code is generally transmitted at one of three data rates; 512, 1200 or 2400 bits per second. With Super-POCSAG, 1200 bits per second or 2400 bits per second transmission rates are possible. Super-POCSAG has mostly displaced the POCSAG in the developed world but the transition is still in progress.

Surveillance

Fax

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax - sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system in the form of audio-frequency tones. The receiving fax machine interprets the tones and reconstructs the image, printing a paper copy. Early systems used direct conversions of image darkness to audio tone in a continuous or analog manner. Since the 1980s, most machines modulate the transmitted audio frequencies using a digital representation of the page which is compressed to quickly transmit areas which are all-white or all-black.



Remote

Flashcards

Good

Sci-fi

Meal-time watching

awesome;

letsplay;

tv comedy;

misc.;

To watch

  • Edge of Darkness (bob peck, zotz)
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona (hot and a bit wet, jo)
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (comedy, james a)
  • Emmanuelle (p.a.)

todo; collate lists


Postal

See also Delivery

News

Software

FileBot

  • FileBot - FileBot is the ultimate tool for organizing and renaming your movies, tv shows or anime, and music well as downloading subtitles and artwork. It's smart and just works.

KawAnime

  • KawAnime - lets you know the latest releases according to your preferred fansubs, and lets you download them easily with just a click.

Mylar3

  • https://github.com/mylar3/mylar3 - The python3 version of the automated Comic Book (cbr/cbz) downloader program for use with NZB and torrents. Mylar allows you to create a watchlist of series that it monitors for various things (new issues, updated information, etc). It will grab, sort, and rename downloaded issues. It will also allow you to monitor weekly pull-lists for items belonging to said watchlisted series to download, as well as being able to monitor and maintain story-arcs.

Ubooquity

  • Ubooquity - a free home server for your comics and ebooks library. VersatileUbooquity supports many types of files, with a preference for ePUB, CBZ, CBR and PDF files. Metadata from library management software Calibre and ComicRack are also supported. Lightweight andm ulti-platform. Ubooquity can be installed on any OS supporting Java (Windows, Linux, Mac OS...) and on a wide range of hardware (desktop computer, server, NAS...).Secure. Ubooquity lets you create user accounts and set access rights for each shared folder.Connections can be protected (HTTPS) using your own certificate.
    • https://github.com/noinip/ubooquity - a free, lightweight and easy-to-use home server for your comics and ebooks.Use it to access your files from anywhere, with a tablet, an e-reader, a phone or a computer.

Archive

Digital

See also Video, Audio, Dataflow, Net media


to sort out!

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_media - normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video, audio, and video games.



Organisations

  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Mechatronische Kunst SGMK - the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society (SGMK, established in 2006) is a collective of engineers, hackers, scientists and artists that joined to collaborate and promote on creative and critical uses of technology. They develop DIY technologies and organize collaborative events, such as a yearly research-camp in the mountains and local regular workshops in electronics, robotics, physical computing, diy-biology, lofi-music etc. They run a public hacker space „MechArt Lab“ (since 2009) and organize the international diy* festival, held every year in Zürich since 2005.


  • CreativeApplications.Net - launched in October 2008 and is one of today’s most authoritative digital art blogs. The site tirelessly beat reports innovation across the field and catalogues projects, tools and platforms relevant to the intersection of art, media and technology. CAN is also known for uncovering and contextualising noteworthy work featured on the festival and gallery circuit, executed within the commercial realm or developed as academic research. Contributions from key artists and theorists such as Casey Reas, Joshua Noble, Jer Thorp, Paul Prudence, Greg J. Smith, Marius Watz, Matt Pearson as well as CAN’s numerous festival involvements and curation engagements are a testament to it’s vital role within the digital arts world today. For the last five years CAN’s central objective has been to facilitate a productive scenius that nurtures creative intersections, exchanges and networks between practitioners in art, media, design and technology. From online and offline publications to live events, CAN’s initiatives have become incubators for a multitude of computational tools, people and organisations, events and people and provided open platforms for dialogue, feedback and response in diverse media.


  • RNDR.STUDIO - designs and codes the future, by transforming data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into narratives. To achieve this, we develop processes, create structures, design visualisations, code programs, and create interactions. The end result can manifest itself accross different media, ranging from interactive installations, to print and everything inbetween —often real-time. We are triggered by how information and technology transforms networks, cultures, societies, relationships, behaviours, and interactions between people.

libavg

  • libavg - allows programmers, media artists and designers to quickly develop media applications. It uses python as scripting language, is written in high-speed C++ and uses modern OpenGL for display output. The project has been under constant development since its inception in 2003. libavg supports the full variety of display elements - images, text, videos, camera output, vector graphics - that modern graphics-intensive applications need. It is fast: the layout engine supports thousands of display elements on the screen at once as well as hardware-accelerated video output. Text using markup, videos with an alpha channel, rendering to offscreen buffers, masking, as well as GPU shader effects such as blur and chromakey are all supported. Plugins written in C++ can expand the engine and have access to all libavg internals. The Tutorial explains all these concepts using a sample application.

Recursive Drawing

Shadershop


Vignette

  • Vignette - an interactive tool that facilitates texture creation in pen-and-ink illustrations in a natural and easy way. Unlike existing systems, Vignette preserves illustrators’ workflow and style: users draw a fraction of a texture and use gestures to automatically fill regions with the texture. Our exploration of natural work-flow and gesture-based interaction was inspired by traditional way of creating illustrations. Vignette makes the process of illustration more enjoyable and that first time users can create rich textures from scratch within minutes.

Context Free Art

  • Context Free Art - a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.


MediaGoblin

PixelFed

Perkeep

  • Perkeep - formerly Camlistore, a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem. Perkeep is under active development. If you're a programmer or fairly technical, you can probably get it up and running and get some utility out of it. Many bits and pieces are actively being developed, so be prepared for bugs and unfinished features. [20] [21]

Archivematica

  • Archivematica - a web- and standards-based, open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable digital content. Our target users are archivists, librarians, and anyone working to preserve digital objects.

Culture



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