Author: Kait Nemeth
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Interactivity: You’ve Got Mail
A cheery “hello” flashes in a bunch of languages, and it asks for your info—so it knows where to charge you later, of course.
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Media ft. Messenger Pigeons
Media is a massive influence, no question. New media has shaped the world in countless ways, and it’s up to us, the users, to understand how.
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Detroit: Become Human (Code Version)
Using that instruction, the machine can “bite back” and refuse a command until its creator gets it right. It mirrors how human communication works.
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Song as Old as Rhyme
Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin are who bring up this idea. New media is created by old media. Which to me, immediately makes me think of film.
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Visual Hot Take: The Dress was Black and Blue
An argument could be made to communicate how the shirts color doesn’t look right, but in the end, that shirt is still a man-made object
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A form of Text isn’t always heavy enough to throw at someone.
Everything starts in a physical form. The initial understanding of text is something physical. But “text” is not just a book.
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Developments in Communication
Words spoken verbally or physically can hold such a huge impact on society. Whether in recent times or the past, technology has now changed that game.
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Digital Rhetoric Edition (again): what you see can deceive you
Digital data can be manipulated. Articles on the internet that explain something from the past, no matter how old, can been false.
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Opinions Matter: Rhetoric Edition
“align theories and methods of classical and contemporary rhetoric to networked texts and new media as objects of study” (Eyman, 2015)
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Having Privacy on Technology (harder than you think).
Technology is something that learns. It’s something that creates and destroys and is helpful and useless all at the same time.