Category: Topic 4: Platforms
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Search Engines and Learning
Search engines make researching things easier and quicker, but this doesn’t mean it’s better. The process of learning is lost when using a search engine.
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The Power Of Technology On Our Behavior And Culture!
How we have allowed communication technologies to change our behavior, thus compromising our family’s culture, values, and traditions.
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Technology and its “message” affecting culture
We return to the works of J.D. Applen and looking deeper into the phrase “Medium is the Message.” We learn technology’s effect on culture.
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McLuhan and Media’s Message
Marshall McLuhan says that “the medium is the message”, however it is that change that comes from the medium that is most meaningful.
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How Much Does Technology Really Change Our Culture?
We tend to use technology in ways we think will benefit us. Do we ever take the time to really think about its impacts on our culture?
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Changes in our culture influenced by technology
Technology has changed our culture by providing connectedness among people. However, technology can have setbacks as well.
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Network of Interactivity
Interactivity allows people to connect and interact with one another. Social media helps expand the number of people who can interact.
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Intertextuality
Interactivity allows for people to apply what they know or understand to a text. This is more so possible with online text such as social media.
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Intertextuality: Eyman and Warnick
Intertextuality is a large word to define. Eyman fights within his work with the scholar Warnick and their established arguments.
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Visual Rhetoric: Defining and Comparing
Visual rhetoric has shown great difficulty to define. Scholars have addressed their struggles. Can comparing visual and digital rhetoric help?
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Visual Rhetoric
Rhetoric has been a subject that has been expanded upon to better explain its true meaning. Because of this, it has many subjects attached.
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Analyzing Interactivity
Analyzing interactivity is key to understanding how new media needs its own study. New media needs its own theories and ways of thinking.