An article on footnotes and referencing in the digital age

References, Please by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books – Simply, it’s time to admit that the Internet has changed the way we do scholarship and will go on changing it. There is so much inertia in the academic world, so much affection for fussy old ways. People love getting all the brackets and commas and abbreviations just so.

Which own photographer are you? Selfie or POV screen-shottie?

POV screen-shottie

I’m quite keen on screen shots.

 

And again it is the mobile cell phone that makes all the difference in how new formats move on in to popular culture. It is the technological format that is defining us.