Tag: Applen
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Content and Medium
Content and medium can impact a rhetoric greatly. This post will look at websites versus books and movies. One medium is more set.
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Ideas in Media
Based on class discussion and J.D. Applen’s chapter a college student develops a better understanding of new and old media.
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The Evolving Forms of Print
Time continues to progress and so does the way written media is consumed. Will digital print have an impact on other forms of print?
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Wk 9: The Old Restraining The New – Media Edition
The way we consume media is constantly changing due to concepts like remediation. Applen, Birkerts & Vila explore positive & negative effects.
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Books and Computers
Books tend to be seen having the words being set while computers are seen having the words be taken away. Both have perks and restraints.
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Remediating Media
An analysis of J.D. Applen’s chapter on Old and new media and how the remediation of media and technology develops over time.
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The words—they’re alive!
“Spoken words are alive; written words are dead.” Seeing this up on the board boggled my mind. Yes, I was mildly aware of this debate.
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Wk 6: Secondary Orality is All Around Us
Kind of knowing what is orality just doesn’t make the cut. Explore Ong, Applen, and Vila’s views on the many sides of secondary orality.
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Oral and Written Cultures
Acknowledging the differences between written and oral culture is important in order to highlight what each one does and their impact.
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Writing is a Technology
Writing is my favorite technology. This blog goes over how it is a technology, why it is so useful, and why it is the best technology.
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This Blog Post is Not Important
A lone piece of text will never be more important than the medium through which it created. After all, the medium is the message.
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Interactivity in New Media
The label of “Interactive” gets thrown around a lot when in comes to New Media in the digital age, but what does that actually mean?
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Advancement vs Improvement
When translating a text from one medium to another, there are going to be differences. Yet new technology doesn’t always create better text.
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Overusing the Term “Interactive” When Discussing New Media
This week we overanalyze a term yet again. Let’s take a look at Applen’s book, and dissect the term “interactive” and how it relates to new media.
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What a Literate Culture Lacks (According to an Oral One)
Before written language was created, information survived through oral communication only. The transition was not without criticism.