Category: Wk 4: Interfaces & Affordances
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Creative Conformity
The popularization of design formats and structures can and will hinder the future creativity of young people, causing the downfall of personalization.
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TikTok And Google: It’s Not Their Fault
This post is about Safiya Noble’s Google and the Uniformed Public, and how I disagree that it is not the fault of digital platforms.
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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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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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Print! (and what it means now)
My response to J.D Applen’s Print and Late-Age Print. What the word ‘print’ means and how it’s used today, as well as how it impact the way we think.
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The Rhetorical Study of Code
A response to “Toward the Rhetorical Study of Digital Code” by Kevin Brock. Agreeing with Brock on the importance of code in today’s society.
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Who Really Designs Our Online Identity?
How much control do we have over our online identity? Kristin Arola explores how templates shape design and expression on social media.
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Web Design
Design in itself can be something strong; however, technology now shows that it’s losing its relevance. This happens because…
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Our Online Identity isn’t fully ours
How much of our online identity is truly ours when social media templates shape how we express ourselves and how others perceive us?
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Digital Rhetoric and Behavior Change
In Ethos, Hexis, and the Case for Persuasive Technologies by Steve Holmes, he argues that behavior change can be digital rhetoric.
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The Importance of Technology, Hexis, and Ethos in Digital Rhetoric
Our smartphones aren’t just tools—they are actively shaping who we are. Here is my breakdown of Steve Holmes’s essay on digital rhetoric.
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Wk4 Blog: Old Media, New Media, and Knowledge
Reading something like someone is speaking it to you is a great way to commit those words to your memory and remember the information better.
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Social Media
Social media is such a big part of everyday life that I don’t think we really stop and think about how much it affects us.
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The Ethos of Digital Rhetoric
The internet has become a medium for persuasion that has transformed the dynamics of human conversation and interaction.
