Comments on: Interacting with Print http://www.lieslbarrell.com/interacting-with-print/ Technology, Intermedia and World Wide Wonder Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Liesl http://www.lieslbarrell.com/interacting-with-print/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Liesl Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:16:37 +0000 http://www.lieslbarrell.com/?p=243#comment-26 Hey Sophelia, Thanks! I was chuckling about the poster for days... Academics taking a current paradigm (e.g. digital) and borrowing its break-out language for the old (e.g. print) in a bid for relevance is a time-honoured Ivory Tower comedy tradition. It is just as sacred as the <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108433/the-most-painfully-annoying-business-jargon?mod=career-leadership" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">corporate gobbledegook clichés</a> you clearly know and love, although the anachronistic bid for funding makes them just a tad more earnest. Hey Sophelia,

Thanks! I was chuckling about the poster for days…

Academics taking a current paradigm (e.g. digital) and borrowing its break-out language for the old (e.g. print) in a bid for relevance is a time-honoured Ivory Tower comedy tradition.

It is just as sacred as the corporate gobbledegook clichés you clearly know and love, although the anachronistic bid for funding makes them just a tad more earnest.

]]> By: Sophelia http://www.lieslbarrell.com/interacting-with-print/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Sophelia Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:12:37 +0000 http://www.lieslbarrell.com/?p=243#comment-24 Holy crap is ‘interacting with print’ funny. That’s right up there with ‘engaging with customers’ and being ‘committed to providing quality service’ on my list of phrases that do less where good language would do more. Very saddening, however, to see it in academia when I was hoping it was limited to the corporate world. Holy crap is ‘interacting with print’ funny. That’s right up there with ‘engaging with customers’ and being ‘committed to providing quality service’ on my list of phrases that do less where good language would do more. Very saddening, however, to see it in academia when I was hoping it was limited to the corporate world.

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