Summative Statement: Are you a gadget?
When considering the question, "Are you a gadget?", a scene from the recent live-action The Jungle Book comes to my mind. Mowgli and...
Hyperlink Report: Lindgren
Simon Lindgren's book, Digital Media & Society aims to answer the questions, “What can flame-throwing squirrels tell us about human...
Hyperlink Report: Fuchs
The chapter of What is Social Media from Christian Fuchs’ book Social Media: A Critical Introduction mainly works on the discussion of...
Hyperlink Report: McLuhan
Three main concepts—“the body, materiality, and the cyborg”—share certain features and conceptions, and are closely linked together....
Hyperlink Report: Lanier
Computer scientist, composer, and author, Jaron Lanier offers a humanist view of modern technology in his 2010 book, You Are Not a...
Summative Statement: Are you a gadget?
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...
Unfiltered: Hyperlink Report
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...
Summative Statement: Are you a gadget?
“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...
Hyperlink Report: Lanier
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...
Hyperlink Report
Jenkins articulately brings out issues that are not just historical but also current in his book Convergence: Where Old and New Media...
Hyperlink Report: INSTAfame
For this assignment, I chose to further analyze Alice Marwick’s “Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy.” This reading...
Amy: Screening Reflection
I still remember the media coverage of Amy Winehouse during her spiral downwards. As mentioned in the film, people were making a joke out...