tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post219866932019175088..comments2023-10-26T04:38:06.297-04:00Comments on TeachPaperless: The future is now, whether we are ready for it or not.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091328599818819777noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-74999226481782595772009-06-17T15:46:36.097-04:002009-06-17T15:46:36.097-04:00There is probably a lot to be learned from the deb...There is probably a lot to be learned from the debates raging around the issue of whether news papers should stop putting out actual papers and instead go entirely digital. As the anonymous poster states, there is a major issue with access. Taking news papers as an example, there are many people with neither their own computers nor the time it would take to go to a publically accessible computer to get their news. I think, for example, of immigrant workers who can easily pick up news papers in their native langauge on the streets of, say, Miami while on the way to work. This is cheap and easy, stopping by a public library or computer access point would decidedly NOT be. Just something to consider, many of our assumptions about what the future is inevitably going to look like can run the risk of being unintentionally classist. There are some great interviews with journalists about issues like internet digital paperless journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249594500637804838noreply@blogger.com