Summary
“Generation M” starts off by saying how children and adolescents have always had a major effect on new media and how people have always given attention to the role of media in children, ranging from the how the Brothers Grimm edited their fairy tales to social scientists actively studying children and media. It gives statistics on how much media has changed from the mid 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century and provides statistics on a wide range of new media objects present...
Friday
Monday
"Toward a New Epistemology of Wikipedia - Fallis
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Don Fallis, from the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, explores the many facets of Wikipedia and why it should studied by epistemologists in his paper entitled "Toward a New Epistemology of Wikipedia." He defines epistemology as "the study of what knowledge is and how people can acquire it," (2) and believes that Wikipedia should be studied by others in his field because of the way it draws users to its database of knowledge. "Why...
Why You Can't Cite Wikipedia In My Class - Waters
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In an opinion piece, Middlebury College history professor Neil Waters argues why Wikipedia is not a valid source of information for any of his classes. While he values Wikipedia as a starting point for any research endeavor, the fact that the encyclopedia is an open-source platform...
Tuesday
A Thousand Plateaus-Gille Deleuze and Félis Fuatarri
SUMMARY- In the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus, Gille Deleuze and Félis Fuatarri use pseudonyms in describing the way human knowledge is spread through literature. They describe a book as a machine and literature as an assemblage, but not ideology (407). They say there is no difference in how a book is made and what it talks about. Writing is measured by units, which define writing as “the measure of something else” (408). They compare books to trees and their root systems, and also...
Autistic Culture Online-Joyce Davidson
SUMMARY- Autistic Culture Online by Joyce Davidson gives non-autistic people a better idea of how people on the Autistic Spectrum (AS) communicate and how the Internet has benefited its members. She uses autobiographies as examples to help the reader understand the life of an AS person. Davidson uses these examples to defend her idea that being autistic is a way of life that can be compared to any other minority group, rather than a disability (795). Like any other minority group, AS people...
Thursday
"The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" - Ken Auletta
Summary:
"The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" is an article by Ken Auletta, published in early 2008 in The New Yorker. In this article, Auletta discusses Google's new presence in the political arena to an audience curious about Google's growing influence. Although Google...
Monday
The Hacker Manifesto
Summary
The Hacker Manifesto is a piece written by Adam L. Beberg, who's information can be found by clicking on the small icon at the bottom of the manifesto. an example of our old topic of hypertext. This piece attempts to explain what a hacker really is by providing definitions of a hacker through hypertext (the word 'hacker'). Beberg enlightens the world, so to speak, on the mindset of a hacker, and how society has come to look down upon such people. Beberg seems to think that the world is quite...
Sunday
Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto"
Summary
In his article, "The GNU Manifesto", Richard Stallman makes the argument in favor of free software. By free software, he means software that doesn't need to be copyrighted or that people don't need "permission to use" (550). He explains that his intent by saying free software was not to be interpreted as "copies of GNU should always be distributed at little or no charge" (550). Later in the manifesto he explains ways to make a profit by providing the service of distribution, and that the...
Friday
The Cave
Summary
The visit to the virtual reality lab was nothing like I what I had expected. I thought it would be more along the lines of the general 3D quality you find in theaters with the basic glasses and I did not realize that such a level of interactivity was possible. I was surprised by the amount of control the person with the joystick and head-tracking goggles had and it was amusing to see the predictable head jerks as objects got closer to everyone’s faces because the experience felt so real....
Thursday
Response Is The Medium
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"Web-Based Memorializing After September 11" - Foot & Warnick
Summary
Foot & Warnick's paper had a single purpose: "to fill gaps in current scholarship on Web-based memorializing by exploring the online modulation of public and private or vernacular modes of memorializing" (p.73). By developing a conceptual framework (set of constructs between ideas and evidence that can be used in future studies) Foot & Warnick hoped to study a small set of sites and comparitive analyze them and the way they utilized the concept of Web-based memorializing.
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Wednesday
"Cyber-Spaces of Grief" - Socolovsky
Summary
In her article "Cyber-Spaces of Grief: Online Memorials and the Columbine High School Shootings", Maya Socolovsky talks about the effects of online memorials on society and our management of grief through these online memorials. Speaking to viewers of online memorials, and to anyone who's experienced loss/death, Socolovsky begins to analyze and explain the effects of online memorials.
She quickly starts off by saying that the public desire to monumentalize suggests an anxiety about and...
Tuesday
Semiotic Domains: Is Playing Video Games a "Waste of Time?"
Game Experience Summary For my “game,” I decided to use JacksonPollock.org. Even though this is not your typical game, it can become a game with yourself to create the artwork that you desire. When you enter the website, a blank screen appears. However, whenever you move your mouse paint splatters and creates different lines and shapes based on how quickly the mouse is moved. Whenever you click the mouse, the line color changes, ranging throughout the entire color spectrum. This is more of a...
Thursday
"The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat" - Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer
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"Video Games and Computer Holding Power" - Sherry Turkle
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