When considering the question, "Are you a gadget?", a scene from the recent live-action The Jungle Book comes to my mind. Mowgli and...

Simon Lindgren's book, Digital Media & Society aims to answer the questions, “What can flame-throwing squirrels tell us about human...

The chapter of What is Social Media from Christian Fuchs’ book Social Media: A Critical Introduction mainly works on the discussion of...

Three main concepts—“the body, materiality, and the cyborg”—share certain features and conceptions, and are closely linked together....

Computer scientist, composer, and author, Jaron Lanier offers a humanist view of modern technology in his 2010 book, You Are Not a...

I remember one of the first class discussions we had was over this seemingly simple yet very complex question of are you a gadget. At the...

The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think by Eli Pariser covers the broad strokes of how...

“Are you a digital gadget?” When I first heard this question in class, without any doubt, I raised up my hands. Ever since I could...

For my Hyperlink Report, I chose to dive in a little deeper at one of our earlier readings in the class, You Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron...

Jenkins articulately brings out issues that are not just historical but also current in his book Convergence: Where Old and New Media...

For this assignment, I chose to further analyze Alice Marwick’s “Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy.” This reading...

I still remember the media coverage of Amy Winehouse during her spiral downwards. As mentioned in the film, people were making a joke out...