technology – New Media Writing

Present.

Shemi — Wed, 03 May 2017 14:06:52 +0000

The benefits of college are null and void until it is time to get a job. We can study things like the Equality Project all while a student is going through the exact statistics we are studying. I think that is the problem academia.

I’ve read a lot of strategy on how to overcome situational poverty barriers. All of it has to do with who you know. None of it has anything to do with what you learn in a classroom setting.

I can’t even fix my mouth to say that I hope one day professors realize that it’s not about being able to stick your nose in a booger filled book one day. I believe that they just serve a clerical role in a very bubble like industry.

However, Emory is my access to my mobility. I am a independent college student. I put myself through college. I have been placed in a fearful unknown many times but those situations are not enough to make me give up and quit on myself.

If I give up on Emory, I am literally giving up on myself. I cannot falsely promote an idea that I do not understand the benefit Emory will offer me.

I cannot also falsely promote the idea that my Emory degree will not give me a lot the most unexpected enemies.

In the same way, social media can be more beneficial than harmful. It has served as a protector for me in my life. A lot of women and people in general use social media to document situations that they may not have the chance to discuss in person.

I don’t really believe that oversharing is a thing. I think it’s a way to control people in their forms of expression. People with experiences like mine tend to realize that they have the ability to perform when actually necessary. It’s not out any arrogance or negligence. Just situation circumstance.

I was reading another student’s essay and they seemed to be self deprecating. I could never be like that. I cannot afford to be like that. With that being said, I am proud of my past essay. It shows that I was comfortable tapping into my youth as well as comfortable with understanding how I came to be who I am today and how my mind works.

Listening Project Reflection

Adrian — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:36:17 +0000

The Listening Project was a great opportunity to connect with a total stranger and learn a bit about his/her life. My project partner, Kellie, is a freshman in SUNY ESF. Though we never met in person and probably never will, she came across as extremely genuine and pleasant in our email exchanges. At first, I was a little tentative about this whole assignment, but as I started coming up with questions to ask her, I actually began to feel interested in what she had to say about them. At the end, I got to learn about her personality, interests, and technology habits.

It’s amazing how the increased interconnectedness of our world has, in some ways, also affected our willingness to communicate with strangers. Ironically, this project highlighted this reality even though it was a technology-based assignment.

#TechnologyObsessed

Shemi — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:18:40 +0000

I was born and raised in North Carolina. We were taught early on about computers. We were exposed to typing skills and we were also exposed to using the internet for research. Computers are very exciting so I was naturally impressed with computers. I enjoyed them and I enjoyed all of the fun games and learning opportunities they had to offer. Myspace was interesting because of the aspect of coding involved to create a page that best fits you. There was also a unique aspect to myspace because you could add interactive music. Outside of games and blogs on the internet, Myspace became a mainstream pioneer of social media. There aren’t any social media platforms in current day where you can have a song played automatically unless it’s a created website. Any other music media platforms do not allow for such subjective description or design as interactive as Myspace. I text on my iPhone 6 and on my MacBook Air. My first experience was interesting. I would always get in trouble because my parents would check my phone. I do text on occasion but for the most part, I text to get from point A to point B or to update a friend I haven’t seen in a while. By the time I am able to text for the day, I am super exhausted so I usually text for 30 mins then I fall asleep. Texting for a long an extended amount of time during a busy time is really exhausting and annoying.

After writing this narrative, I realized that I really enjoy using the computer for strategy outlets. I think that it’s a healthy avenue considering the fact that humans have a tendency to lean towards toxic behaviors in time of idleness. It is important that I keep my mind stimulated. I did not find the need to implement an understanding of my technology literacy through the texts and other readings. However, I did find the texts beneficial, especially the aspect on the rhetoric chart on p. xxiv of Rhetoric Online by George Pullman.

Neopets was popular during my childhood around the age of 7!

Technology Literacy Narrative: The Past

David — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 18:00:57 +0000

750 – 1000 words. Due: 2/2.

The technological literacy narrative is designed to ask you, over a period of several sessions, to describe your early relationship with technology (particularly in regards to writing), to explain your current relationship with various technologies, and to reflect how these relationships have evolved over time. The narratives will encourage reflection on your past, present, and future relationship with technology.

Phase 1: The past

Pre-writing

Please do some freewriting in response to the following questions. Please try to write for at least five minutes in response to each question. Use as much detail as possible—try to imagine all the details but don’t worry about spelling, grammar, or structure yet:

Please write about when, where, and how you first came to interact with computers, and how you first learned to use computers.
How did you feel about computers when you were growing up? Did you like them? Why or why not? What did you use computers for (Games? Email? Writing?)?
What are your experiences with social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)? What do you remember about your first experiences with such sites? If you haven’t used social networking sites, why not?
Do you text on a cell phone or blackberry-type device? If so, what do you remember about your first experience with texting? If you don’t text, why not?

Prompt

Now that you’ve gotten a good start brainstorming I’d like you to expand on those questions through your writing, working to fashion a narrative detailing your past history with technology. Use the questions as a starting place but feel free to elaborate on issues or questions that are salient to your individual history. Later in the term I will ask you to look at your current relationships with various technologies, and finally I’ll ask you to look to the future, and I will ask you to remix the pieces in some other ways.

Details

Publish your narrative as a page on your class subdomain (make certain to add it to the menu, so we can all find it).

As with everything you publish for me this semester, you need more than just words for your narrative — you must have at least one image, video, or audio file with your narrative. You’ll need to provide a caption and give credit to the creator of the image (even if it’s your own).

Once you have published your narrative, you’ll need to publish a post about the narrative that links to the page. That post should serve two fundamental functions: it will provide a compelling preview of your narrative that summarizes the controlling idea of your narrative in a sentence or two that encourages readers to read what you have written and it will reflect on what you have learned in the process of writing your technology literacy narrative.

Some questions to consider in your reflection:

What was your writing process for this narrative like? Were the strategies, skills, and procedures you used effective for this assignment?
What did you learn about yourself by the end of writing your narrative?
This piece of writing is probably a fairly traditional narrative, but did you find yourself using new media strategies gained from reading Pullman and others so far? If so, how and how did those strategies affect your composition?