Harris presents his idea of forwarding as “taking words, images, or ideas from [a text] and putting them to use in new contexts.” He gave a great metaphor by Kenneth Burke of forwarding and a conversation: you arrive in the middle of an intense conversation, catch on to the topic and arguments, add your own thoughts, debate for a while, then leave while the conversation continues.
The Artblog uses forwarding in nearly every post they make and have made because the posts involves images other artists’ work and Harris defines forwarding as including using images. Most of the posts on this blog are about new works, exhibits and art fairs, so they have images of the artwork to give the reader a better idea of the nature of the artwork. Sometimes the “forwarding” of images of the art can alter it because the photographs of the actual art can affect the way the artwork looks. The overall idea of the art remains the same though.
Daily Kos uses forwarding by spreading political news, as in posting quotes from political figures. Also, authors on this blog use links and ideas from other posts and readings in their own posts, therefore forwarding ideas from others and using them in new contexts. When quoting political figures in posts, sometimes the meaning is skewed a little (from the intended meaning) to fit the author’s purpose.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Forwarding in Blogs
Posted by Katie Etheridge at 5:40 AM
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The idea of forwarding art is something interesting that I hadn't considered. You made an interesting point about how photographs of art can change the way it looks, and the idea that things will inherently get lost in translation probably also applies to other things such as news.
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