Tag: Technology
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Message & Mediums
Explores Marshall McLuhan’s concept of “the medium is the message”, highlighting how different media forms shape our knowledge.
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Is the Medium the Message?
“The medium is the message” means in order to grasp the technology used we have to understand its impact on our society and culture.
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Technology, Media, and Safety
Carr explains how we have strayed away from intellectual thinking and look for quick answers on the web. Also explains surveillance capitalism.
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The Role of Platforms in Education
Technology in the educational setting can improve learning, but it also restricts critical thinking and creativity, so its usage must be careful.
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The Power of Code
Understanding code and its characteristics is a discipline that bridges diverse fields, including literacy and rhetoric.
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Rhetoric of Code
Explore how the principles of rhetoric, ethos, pathos, and logos apply to coding. Learn how these strategies improve user experience.
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Are Codes Safe?
The concept of code is complex when explored outside of it’s literal definition. With ill-intention humans around, is code really safe?
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New Media by Defintion
After reading Eyman’s chapter it is clear to see that there is not one set definition to the term “New Media”. Some authors are arguing
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New Media and Literacy
A deep dive into Applens reading. Manovic and Lanhams views on new media and literacy. Modern communication methods can be limited but useful tools.
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Digital Literacy
Learn about digital literacy, what makes it different from traditional literacy, what it means, and why it even matters in our world.
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Digital Literacy
Learn the importance of digital literacy and how this plays an important roll in technology and media platforms through different ideas.
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Understanding Intertextuality a Little Bit Better
When looking up the word Intertextuality, the definition that I got was “the relationship between texts, especially literacy ones.”
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The History of Digital
When you hear the word digital, is the first thing that comes to your mind computers? I was the same before reading Doug Eyman’s text on digital.
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Digital Literacy
Discusses what digital literacy is when it comes to defining. Scholars say it is more complex than we make it out to be.
