start

THE END OF BOOKS

HYPERFICTION

nonlinear or nonsequential space

multiple paths between text segments

divergent technology, interactive and POLYVOCAL

alternate routes

LEXIAS

AUTHOR + READERS = FELLOW-TRAVELERS

SAILING THE ISLAND - LOOKING AT THE SEA FROM A DOCK

in the mapping and remapping of textual (and visual, kinetic and aural) components

MULTIMODEL

MULTISENSUAL

URGENT PUBLISHING

HERE AND NOW?
EMPLORATIONS IN URGENT PUBLISHING

speed, quality, and
positioning

alternative content structures

challenging your readers to navigate and interact with content in different ways

entrusting your content to the network

Multimedia + interactive + multivocality + multimodel = hybrid

SPEED:
- fast in spreading, easy to set up , open
to extension and adaptation,
and hybrid in media/ inputs
- realtime & on the spot

QUALITY:
- step away from the single-author-knows-it-all ideology
- experimental forms
- chain reaction

INTERACTIONS between authors & readers

CONTRIBUTING ROLE of readers

what could be different ways?

Direct from authors to INTENDED readers

POSITIONING:
- ‘publishing by surprise.’
- 'drop' without announcement in advance.
- bringing people together and placing
the publication in their midst

Placing the publication in the MIDST of a community

URGENT TOPICS

AUTHORS

MULTIMEDIA

MULTIMODEL

MULTIVOCAL

INTENDED READERS

INTERACTIVE

URGENT TOPICS

- South China Sea dispute
- Is the future negative?
- Time travelling
- Optimism and Pessimism

- Can quickly lead to war between Vietnam (my country) and China on the South China Sea
- There're many opposite viewpoints and announcements from relating sides (nations)
- The conflict effects on social aspects of Vietnam
- Vietnamese people have inconsistent information about China's militarization on Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands which lawfully belong to Vietnam
- It is a big question about truths and lies relating to South China Sea dispute
- How the future look like on the South China Sea?

REASONS TO CHOOSE:

POST-DIGITAL PRINT

TIMELINE + TECHNOLOGIES

1936

In the US, prototypes of the Newspaper via Radio Fascimile started offering condensed versions of newspapers sent through radio waves and printed on fascimile paper by a special printer integrated in the radio receiver

--> Develop distribution of national newspapers.

Early 1990s

CD-ROM magazine was introduced

1970s

Electrically charged micro-spheres (or pixel without light) was developed at PARC

1989

A tablet prototype from Smart Design was introduced

Sarah Charlesworth produced series of artworks called Modern History - replaced all columns of text and headlines with blank space, leaving only logo & pictures.

1992

Information Design Lab was founded in Colorado - Came up with an idea about vertical screen

1999

Live Journal was founded - imposed a radical turn on the way information is being produced and consumed online.

Late 1990s

E-paper was announced

2000

Gyricon (a type of electronic paper) was introduced

2002

Bookmobile has been physically spreading electronic texts using print-on-demend technology

2008

PDF was officially released as an open standard

2007

EPUB was initially released

mimoZine magazine on USB stick was introduced

Pirates of the Amazon Firefox plug-in was launched

2008 - 2009

Sony, Amazon, Barnes and Noble announced/ launched their own models of e-paper

2009

A scandal - 'Animal Farm' copies were vanished on Kindle

Google Lab released Google Fast Flip
--> Give a 'print look' to its very popular Google News service

Sharp Corporation offered Japanese buyers of its Aquos TV sets the possibility to download and view the first 5 pages of the newspaper Manichi Shimbun
--> Familirise customers with experiences of reading newspaper on a screen

2010

The first product line of Ipad released
--> Solved problems of horizontal screen in reading newspapers

'Smart text' - using data collected/ studied from eye-tracking technology

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XpubBdC6YzZzSvAir88X4cIN3tWCaOO-AnEWeATY7PQ/edit

SOURCES FOR THE PUBLISHING:

INDEXING SOURCES

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

ORDER BY EVIDENCES TAKEN FROM CHINESE SIDE & THOSE FROM VIETNAMESE SIDE

"TIME TRAVELLING" ORDER
SPECIAL EVENTS
PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE

PAST:

PRESENT:

FUTURE:

Seeking for proofs of Vietnamese territory in Paracel and Spratly Islands

Increasing conflicts between Vietnam and China

A negative future for Vietnam:
War, Seperation of the North and the South, Seeking for Asylum

(Trigger the main character to go time travelling)

DIGITAL

PHYSICAL

How to generate more attention on the South China Sea Conflict (particularly the territory conflict between Vietnam and China)?

DESIGN QUESTION:

Name by events/specific details or show only 1 image --> something creating curiosity

TECHNICAL SITE

Ether2html - Poster

I had problems with "printing" out the poster. The poster didn't perform the same in the Preview mode before Printing.

Ether2html - Book

This is an effective tool for hybrid publishing. It provides a similar feeling to design books in Adobe Indesign.

Pelican

Although using themes in Pelican could help in cutting down time, the whole process seemed to be complicated for me. I have always been confused about which file to open , where to find them, how to load files, etc. Besides, it is unnatural for me to search for a part of code in the theme to replace it with my content. I prefer to build up my website by coding from the scratch to have a full control.

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DIGITAL

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