Tag: J.D. Applen
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Balancing Screens and Pages: The Impact of New Media on Literacy Education
New media has reshaped education, making it essential for educators to find a balance between teaching traditional and digital literacy.
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To Hand-Write or To Type?
In our overly digital world, there is true value in hand-writing and putting pen to paper. Want to know more? This blog has you covered!
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Reading Away Goldfish Memory
In “Phaedrus,” Plato worries that with literacy will come a forgetfulness. But in my case, literacy helps me remember things.
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Media ft. Messenger Pigeons
Media is a massive influence, no question. New media has shaped the world in countless ways, and it’s up to us, the users, to understand how.
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Media Matters
New media reshape how we communicate, focus, and engage with information, as McLuhan and Carr highlight the power of the medium itself.
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Are You Not Getting the Message?
I’ve heard of Marshall McLuhan’s “the medium is the message” speech during my public speaking class, so I think this text would be familiar.
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Shifting Perspectives: Old and New Media
Understanding variability, perceptions of old and new media, and hyperlink rhetoric. Are we really thinking for ourselves when we read?
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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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Is Writing a Technology?
A break from Eyman, oral language, and how writing as a technology changed the game for society dating back to Plato times.
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The Cons of the Spoken, Written, and Electronic Word
I take a look at Applen’s work on the spoken word, the written word, and the electronic word and discuss everything negative about each one.