Ex 5: Of Emergence and Knowledge in the [??] Era

You name the era we are heading into.

Write a three-page paper that demonstrates your ability to apply assigned readings to your own experience reading (and studying, and analyzing, and annotating) an academic etext.

As with the other exercises, I am expecting you to engage meaningfully with direct quotes taken from our assigned readings.

This assignment also asks you to report your first-hand experience with ebook tools and resources that are currently available.

• A Kindle is available for you to check out at the library; I have pre-loaded it with some media-related books.
• I will also loan my own Kindle overnight if you schedule with me in advance.
• If you have an iPhone, you can use the Kindle app.
  
• You can also download a free Kindle reader for a PC or Mac. (There are plenty of free Kindle books.)
• As of April 14, there are about 10 iPads at SHU.  I don't know who will get them, or whether they will be available for students to try out. If you can get ahold of an iPad, wonderful!
• I have not tried it out, but here is a link to a free trial of a "PDF Annotator" tool. Is it useful for scholars? Can you find a different tool that might be better?
• books.google.com (see for yourself whether Darnton's hopes/fears for Google are accurate)