Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore Writing for Digital Spaces. New posts arrive weekly throughout the semester.
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The Encrypted Text
Explore how digital platforms shape the way we think, communicate, learn, and view ourselves through McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.
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Blind Trust
A Google search engine that many people rely on to search different questions and research. It displays the search bar with nothing searched yet.
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Algorthims and Confirmation Bias
The meer existence of algorithms create a cycle of influencers doing their best to take advantage of the way any one works.
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Think Before You Believe What You See Online
Misinformation can spread anywhere online. This post explores why people need to question what they see and take responsibility for what they believe
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Just Scrolling? How Social Media Shapes Our Feelings
Just scrolling can influence more than we realize. This week’s reading explores how social media habits shape our emotions and responses to information.
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Wk 5: Sneaky Rhetorics, Habitual Media, and the Affective Politics of Lurking on Facebook
Social media almost always causes more harm than good. The emotions that is pulls out of its users are negative and harmful.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Preparation (Wk 0): Privacy & Agency on the Web (86)
- Topic 1: Digital Situationships (361)
- Topic 2: Power Distribution (98)
- Topic 3: Public Audiences, Public Authors (145)
- Uncategorized (79)
- Unused Topics from Past Semesters (404)
- Connections (11)
- Mediums (64)
- New Media (30)
- New Media and Literacy (77)
- Refining Terms (16)
- Speaking, Writing, and Literacy (75)
- Text (79)
- The (Late) Age of Print (57)
- Traditional Writing (9)
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