New Media Writing

  Now that I’ve added video and sound to my mashup, I think it communicates much better and doesn’t have quite the cheesy slide-showy feel that it had when it consisted only of still images. So let’s talk about the choices I made in producing this stunning work of genius. Basically, the mashup can be [...]

Currently, our New Media Writing class is working on “visual mashups,” which are comprised of a series of images that, together, make an argument (a bit like a PowerPoint presentation without any words). They are sort of analogous to the more familiar musical breed of mashups, made by artists like Girl Talk, in that both [...]

Twitter is a lot like Facebook in that it is a constantly updating feed of people’s selected reality. It is important to remember that reality is selected online. By that I mean that people ultimately choose what information (or misinformation) they will give out. Twitter, however, differs from Facebook in a few key ways. On [...]

Every generation seems to think that the next generation is ruining everything. Sometimes we will even hear this kind of talk from linguists and rhetorical theorists who, frankly, should know better. Freishtat and Sandlin’s article “Shaping Youth Discourse About Technology: Technological Colonization, Manifest Destiny, and the Frontier Myth in Facebook’s Public Pedagogy” posits that Facebook is [...]