Category: Unused Topics from Past Semesters
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The Importance of New Media
New media is important because it creates chances to gain new perspectives through digital communication from anywhere around the world.
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New Media & Literacy
New media and literacy alters how self expression is shown from printed text to digital format like with images and posts.
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Beyond the Scroll: How Digital Literacy Helps Us Escape the Algorithm
Is your digital identity yours, or a product of the algorithm? Explore Elianna Bravo’s take on digital literacy to help break the digital matrix.
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How Digital Literacy and Writing Are Changing Literacy Today
Screens transform reading into an interactive process where text shifts, links guide meaning, and users shape how digital writing is experienced.
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Interactive vs. Interactivity (yes there’s a difference)
What is interactive? Being ‘interactive’ means more than clicking buttons or hyperlinks, and goes beyond a purely technological connotation.
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The Variability of Digital Media
This article explores the ever-changing and variety heavy nature of new media, particularly digital based media and how it differs from traditional media.
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New Media
New Media has now taken over ways to gain information. With a click of a few buttons, information can be gained anywhere.
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Understanding New Media and Literacy
Reflecting on new media and literacy, I notice how digital tools and online spaces shape the way we read, learn, create, and interact.
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What “New Media” Means to Me
A simple reflection on new media and how it shapes the way we communicate, connect, and understand digital rhetoric today.
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Making Music Videos for History Classes
In my high school history classes, I always had to create a music video, combining traditional literacy and new media in the classroom.
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Understanding New Media and Literacy
Rolling green hills stretch beneath a bright sky, framed by rugged mountains and drifting clouds, creating a calm and open landscape.
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Remediation and Film Adaptation
Does digital remediation improve the stories we love? Exploring J.D. Applen’s theories through the lens of Catherine Hardwick’s Twilight.
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How Digital Spaces Reshape Thought and Communication
Digital writing spaces reshape how we think, write, and connect; challenging the permanence, authority, and formality of print culture.
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Text and Defining Digital Rhetoric
Digital text is more than words. It includes images, design, and interaction that shape meaning in online spaces every day.
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Rethinking “Text” in the Age of Digital Rhetoric
Doug Eyman challenges us to rethink “text” in digital rhetoric, expanding it beyond print into dynamic, networked, and even autonomous forms.