Category: Unused Topics from Past Semesters
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Digital Connectivity Effects: The Invisible Message
Does the Internet change how you think? Let’s dive into McLuhan’s theories to see how modern tools like Google and PowerPoint reshape our culture.
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Saving the Web Starts in the Classroom
The Web, in its current state, is a place of discriminatory practices, and to change it, we have to look beyond the content it presents.
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Hidden Message of Technology & How Media Shapes Thought
Modern media doesn’t just deliver information—it reshapes how we think, learn, and understand the world around us every day.
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Message in the Medium
Media doesn’t just deliver content. They shape habits, attention, and thinking, pushing us toward speed over depth in digital spaces.
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Platforms and Mediums: A Look at Applen and Gillespie
This article explores what platforms and mediums are, how they are similar and different, as well as they can effect how information is retained.
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Understanding McLuhan and Media’s Messages
A reflective look at McLuhan and media’s messages, exploring how old and new media shape how we think, learn, and connect.
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The Scary Rise of Media
We need to realize it’s scary to see the power we give the media. It has so much information about everyone and uses it to show content that is targeted.
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ABCya! as an Online Platform for KIDS!
ABCya! is a learning platform that has strived for the last couple of decades because of its function as a cool medium and logical platform!
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How Media and Platforms Shape What We Know
A glowing brain floating in a digital space represents how media and platforms shape knowledge, influencing how we think, learn, and process information.
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Understanding “New Media” in a Changing Digital Landscape
A person sits at a tidy desk, using a phone beside a laptop, surrounded by notes, photos, and sunlight streaming into a cozy workspace.
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New Media & Identity
New Media has changed how we communicate and express ourselves on digital platforms, and how we present our identity online.
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Packer, Jordan, and Manovich on New Media
This article reviews the differing definitions of new media as proposed by Randall Packer, Ken Jordan, and Lev Manovich.
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Social Media as New Media
What makes social media “new”? Explore Packer and Jordan’s 5 characteristics of New Media and how they define our modern digital rhetoric and strategy.
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That “New, New” Media
New media is assumed to be something separate from older forms of media but is actually a continuation evolution of them.
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Rethinking “New Media”: Why Definitions Matter More Than Ever
What actually makes media “new”? Eyeman shows that definitions shift constantly, and that’s exactly what makes digital rhetoric so powerful.