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"90-9-1" Rule for Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities. A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites eBook: Zizi Papacharissi. YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (9780745644790): Jean Burgess, Joshua Green, Henry Jenkins, John Hartley. Personal Connections in the Digital Age (DMS - Digital Media and Society) (9780745643328): Nancy Baym. You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) (9780307389978): Jaron Lanier. Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish. Awards Staff Pick In 2009, Matt Kish had an idea, a dream, a plan. Every day he would read a page from Moby-Dick, choose one passage, and then create an image based on the text — for all 552 pages! A year and a half later his epic quest came to an end, and Portland's Tin House agreed to publish the whole collection. Synopses & Reviews Refusing to set any boundaries, Matt Kish uses a wide variety of materials, including found paper, ballpoint pens, markers, paint, crayons, ink, and watercolors to create art inspired by lines from every single page of the 552-page Signet Classics edition of Moby-Dick.

A hallmark of the project has been his use of pages torn from old, discarded books. Review: "Not so much honored as reimagined, Moby-Dick in Kish's hands is the vertiginous immersive experience Melville intended. " "I'm in love...with Kish's art work....Who knows, Matt Kish may be the impetus to finally read Moby-Dick. " "Kish has done something really fascinating [in Moby-Dick in Pictures]. Video. The Myth of Digital Democracy (9780691138688): Matthew Hindman. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators (9780143119586): Clay Shirky.