A Balance
Protocol of Transparent Usability
By
John Flanagan©
Book
Reviews
Richard
A. Professor
Lanham, Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts,
the
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. 1993.
Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen, Multimodal Discourse: The modes and
media
of contemporary communication, Oxford University Press, New York, New
York
2001.
John Dan Johnson-Eilola. Datacloud: Toward A New Theory of
Online Work,
Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey, 2005.
Abstract
The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts,
Richard A.Professor Lanham (1993). Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of
Contemporary Communication, Gunther Kress, and Theo Van Leeuwen,
(2001). Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication
and representation to be more than about language.
Datacloud: Toward a New Theory of Online Work, Johndan Johnson-Eilola
(2005)
promotes how to balance a protocol of computer
usability ecologies in
the new electronic writing era. These texts relate to
computer
societies who have the know how to manage and reinvent efficient system
approaches for revising prose, improving style and clarifying
support. It
prepares, for example, the resource advancement of symbolic grammar as
a visual
rhetoric. An example, the balance scales of Justice. We observe further
native
[sic] intelligences, where readers mimic online customize
networks. The
techniques emerge to express and shape solid technological data
platforms
allowing readers to align focus as usability. This
delivery of
communicable practices is a revolutionary process towards creating a
balance
protocol of usability for the electronic writing environment.
TEXT
This mid-level review begins
with Professor
Richard A. Lanham, Emeritus, at the University of California,
Los Angeles,
The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts,
which best practices
synthesis, reason and determined emotions for clarifying
concepts
needed for a communicable computer technology. (ix). The
Electronic Word to inform
readers about the movement and the vision
required to make a natural balanced usability and a second
choice nature
type behavior in digital writing art discipline. Professor Lanham uses
his time
wisely reflecting the facts drawn from notable literary and artistic
personalities in all walks of life. He prepares, in baby like walking
shoes,
special references for the bionetwork ideologies which stimulate
the interests’ of an evolving computer age audience.
Professor Lanham
inserts a medium of free expression for digital institutions as a
strand
separate from the traditional educational sense of the word. (26).
offers
scenarios for the discourses a digital art
language to persuade
the audience to act, and pass judgment. Mr. Lanham weaves a
professional
rhetoric to tell us about valid stable genres learned
from reliable writing
heroes.
He
improves on social activity; and,his claim is an aesthetic style; a
cultural
opportunity that belongs to a postmodern society, and he
thinks eventually
this coming of age is natural to balance protocol usability. (45) The
reason
for social expressivity is much like a learned
music, literature,
lifestyle, painting art, sculpture, theater and film sound liefmotif
which gradually evidences in globally while acting
locally for the
imminent predictions of future computer trends. Mr. Professor Lanham
relates
common treads like saving of attention, critical theory, patterns of
human
activity and symbolic structures, which he believes will not only
quicken learning but will also guide us where to send this
kind of
knowledge. He details old significances and new systems of
collectiveness which lack fixed boundaries, yet we
find are
constantly interrupting each other’s institutional borders to
show new
technology as interactive. If one rubs their eye glasses with a clean
tissue
paper they would see while holding them away for a moment things around
them
looking enlarged. This book shows such enhancements full of real
historical and
futuristic thoughts on computer phenomenon. Professor Lanham
scrutinizes the
technological roles played as early as 1909, in the visual arts, which
seem a
society predicting a computer revolution. (30) His endeavors were to
describe
perceptions using examples of artists’ adaptations at various
epochs. There are
basic social components behind the developments of different arts that
did
predict a future computer union. In one particular essay he revisits
the
visionaries of the early cinema and then quickly moves forward to the
prophets
of television as a trajectory device for the technology soon to replace
the
printed word. (33).
The greater response for a prototype of this kind of natural balance
protocol
of usability is brilliantly complemented by Gunther
Kress, professor
of Education/English at the Institute of Education, University of
London and
Theo Van Leeuwen the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences at
the University of
Sidney.
Both communicate the issues of a multimodal
theory of communication. (4) The phrase symbols within this work
profess
meaning-making definitions of new workable environments. Included in
the
subject matter is a stronger involvement to encourage greater values to
save
time and attention needed to form a social structure for a common
understanding
of usability relationships. The book further educates us on how to
understand
the strata: (a) discourse/ socially constructed knowledge’s;
(b)
design/conceptual sides of expression; (c) production/organization of
the
artifact; (d) distribution/stratus; for notions of recourses in social
practices. (4) The purposes for knowing signs and symbols in
multiplicity;
semiotic resources; multi-modality is to communicate a new landscape
vision
ancillary to this new language. Here we cut to the chase and do not
keep it a
big secret because this kind of code argumentation will eventually be a
common
vocabulary.
(46)
Tress’s and Van Leeuwen book, Multi modal, has to
do with a multimedia
genre social orientated discipline. In order present this the
authors’
had to first outlined a history of linguistic theory and then added
value an
institutional interrelationship with semiotic practice design styles
for a
production activity that introduced a good communication. This in turn
showed
how a theory develops into a practice a communicating for a natural
balance
protocol for computer usability. A protocol of this kind of
nature can be
used as a discourse for executing social discourse, design, production
and
distribution for workable writing and computer environments. The signs
or
semiotic conviction analysis for the appearance of a discourse mode
(style)
framed in a media (vehicle) that emphasizes a construct aspect for
knowledge
ought to prove nothing but an understandable reality. (3) We should
learn from
this book, “that semiotic recourse begins at the level of
“production”, and
therefore the articulation is communicated before the semiotic variant
emerges
into realizations for a designed environment.” (6) Tasting
the salt of language
anchored on the tongue’s word embeds the reality for the
observations as a
recycling effect that latter interfaces and starts a new context
medium. The
discourses suggested in, Multi modal, reference elements, such as
colors,
sounds and picture images that develop a semiotic movement across a
gradient
that control one refrain over another to empower the senses to relate a
better-quality comprehension.
Composing work using this post-structural approach enables us to vision
the
ideological causes that align social; emotional; rhetorical; logical,
and
ethical components for a natural balance communication in a computer
age. This
style shapes space relations for the articulations in a multimedia
production,
whether or not it happens to use sound, word image or other in that
semiotic
relation. Our task according to the authors’ is to learn how
to communicate
this modality until we prove a strong professional understanding of how
it
works (123). The embodiment of this type of literature does not
frustrate the
writer but guides their perseverance until natural balance wisdom is
useful.
Furthermore, this is not a pro or con technology but a pooling of being
for the
needed attention in a vast information system. The authors’
points out passive
subject perspectives often have stresses and cultural misconceptions
which
semiotic relationships remedy. The reasons for this faculty sense, is
that
something has not yet been grounded in a practical dimension to
emphasis a
philosophy and rhetoric compatible with the writing art phenomena.
Identity and
identity building a role in a social genre relation becomes a cultural
developmentally discourse. This improvement link connects the layout
designs to
the activities by semiotic modes. This complement sense of the subject
modifies
to emerge as new perceptions for the communication. This further enacts
the
coherent rule, for the symbolic analytical elite, where “when
socialized as
recognition of the figuring structure then moves into a larger
discourse taking
on new designs that stratifies into production and
distribution.” (122) In,
Multi modal, one symbolic element, for example, was an architectural
discourse
of positing a child’s room for renovation.(13) Here in this
case different
semiotic interactions were designed into key features for the
improvement of
that living environment. Theory behind these composing situations in a
real
life definition are now adapted as useful tools for building onto
exiting
ecological arrangements for a variety expressions. This method centers
a nice hybrid
mix of interfaces for a natural balance in a compatible computer forum.
(25-27).
The last but not least author in this
series is Johndan
Johnson-Eilola, Professor in the Department of Communication &
Media at Clarkson
University. In his book, Data cloud: toward a
New Theory of Online
Work, develops learning principle for a natural balance protocol for
computer
usability where we say global but work local to rearticulate a social
genre of
information technology. In his new, Data cloud, Johndan Johnson-Eilola,
calls
out suggestions on how to reintegrate technology and use of tangential
forces
to captures positive work influences. Language in his book is an impact
far
from being neutral and he fuses an ongoing process to operate a
breaking down
(disarticulation) of structure before, as he calls it, a
“phase of
reconstruction” (rearticulating).
Freedom from fragmented
consciousness, obtained through aesthetic perceptions, found in modern
society,
are reintegrated and applied to fill the gaps with a new social
construct, in
our present day cultural postmodern society. Multimodality, multimedia,
multiple articulations are examples that communicate a cultural shift
to
intelligences for people’s knowledge as regulated complex
systems of
information. Professor Johndan Johnson-Eilola, who thinks in postmodern
refinements, knows how to teach courses in information architecture and
usability, technical communication, rhetoric, and mass media. He helps
people
understand why we are moving faster and faster in a computer
revolution,
pointing out how we got here and where we are probably going. He claims
through
a trajectory presentation of ownership rights of his works in process
and the
reworking of them are an interesting picture of computer
technology.
The data articulation theory, a connection that indetifies identify the
senses
in relation to a network of cultural constructs of interconnected
social and
technical forces. And, a second concept, symbolic analytic work theory
for a
distribution of professional workers, who use their information to
understand
the culture of technology and know that institution well for a natural
balance
protocol, or: in other words understand complex workable computer
system
ecology. Professor Eilola describes to us the beginnings of his
trajectory by
charting a timeline of historical interfaces from around the
50’s up to the
present. He reminds us of a wired teletype machines and the media that
surrounded the people of that time. (36) Johndan Johnson-Eilola does
this by
reminding us that computer programmers back then learned as apprentices
on
machines such as punch card recording devices. His intention is too
start at
the beginning of this computer society moving toward modern web designs
and new
computer application software systems. (37) Johndan Johnson-Eilola,
points out
how manual directions have evolved into our present day Microsoft Word
Office
applications. He makes us looks back to where we have been with our
computer
training programs, the building of computer projects and the mastering
of web
site designs.
I evaluate Johndan Johnson-Eilola, book
as a good technician
with many remarks from notable voices he collaborated his information
with over
the years. He uses his know-how of new devices as well as old ones to
create a
natural balance for today’s online computer work
environments. His trajectory
work is a believable design that moves reasonable expectations, from
the knowledge
of the past to the understanding of present day computer technology. He
writes
about design spaces becoming reintegrated with natural life situations
and how
architects try to design better clean rooms to prevent different types
of
failings. (71) Areas mentioned by him are writing the web, reading
electronic
news monster, and using tools like tinderbox to dig the future
undistracted
writing spaces. He further asserts systems for music tools and many
other new
interesting electronic online devices which save valuable time, freeing
up
attention to prevent many causes of harm to our online work progress.
Johndan
Johnson-Eilola reminds us that once we had exclusively used a
typewriter, a
television and a radio but now are writing web logs, voice treads, and
tubes
for updating cultural information on to devices such as our own net
vibes. The
substance in this direction rearticulates to form a social manipulation
for
reinterpreting the trajectory for both a simpler life style activity
and a
highly developed technical column of working for a natural balance
protocol in
a computer work environment.
Of course, like anything, there are
the draw backs
failings in every plan. The faculty sense of where to go with what we
have, and
to make everything happen even better, is often a raised question.
Professor
Johndan Johnson-Eilola lets us see the difficulty in long saturated
information
environments, and how we embarrass the attention because of so much
disorganization. This is why new software applications are suggested
that
alleviate those difficulties we find in some online arrangements. This
trajectory relation recognizes the need for guidance that will connect
that
concentration of meaningful principle. In other words, Johndan
Johnson-Eilola,
understands the methodologies to increase the practical dimensions for
a
natural balance protocol usability to do online work. In an
artist’s art one
must build a structure that feels as if it belongs to an artistic
balance, and
the computer work environments do have artistic expression. This can be
done by
reticulating stable symbolic relations from both or either newly
invented
and/or historical reintegrated materials to converge into new
construct. We now
read in this book value laden interfaces are now breaking down
boundaries to
produce distinct cultural reconstructions. In, Data cloud, for example,
weblogs
are becoming real fact and not just a theory. In, Multimodal sound,
color and
art develop new meaning when attached to other signs. Moving still
further back
with information, Professor Lanham suggests theories of using figures
of speech
as a vocabulary for argumentation to produce a common ground of
practice to
know designs. Each facet in these texts works their own magic to
relieve us
from the burdens and restriction in today’s computer society.
These books are
good reference materials that help cultural understanding information
shift to
the peoples’ knowledge. And, although this usability is a
little lop-sided in
theory we are at a threshold of a balanced practice because of new
computer
user activity.