Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore Writing for Digital Spaces. New posts arrive weekly throughout the semester.
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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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Coding Isn’t Neutral, It’s Rhetorical
This article explores the ways in which code– which is often claimed to be neutral–actually isn’t neutral and can contain the rhetoric of it’s composer.
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Political Coding : The Rhetorical Power of Redistricting Algorithms
Explore how redistricting software uses “cold logic” to carve political maps and why the code behind our democracy is a powerful rhetorical act.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Preparation (Wk 0): Privacy & Agency on the Web (86)
- Topic 1: Digital Situationships (361)
- Topic 2: Power Distribution (100)
- Topic 3: Public Audiences, Public Authors (145)
- Uncategorized (79)
- Unused Topics from Past Semesters (404)
- Connections (11)
- Mediums (64)
- New Media (30)
- New Media and Literacy (77)
- Refining Terms (16)
- Speaking, Writing, and Literacy (75)
- Text (79)
- The (Late) Age of Print (57)
- Traditional Writing (9)
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