Monthly Archives: February 2010
Is the web really free?
Now the driving force behind the web is ad revenue for the most part and these social networking and social media sites are increasingly being absorbed into large corporations. Reddit.com for instance is owned by Conde Nast Publications (a company … Continue reading
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Where do you get your news?
As I was reading Bolter’s introduction to Remediation, I couldn’t help but to think about some of the changes in the new media that he discusses since this text was written. Bolter claims that the “[o]lder electronic and print media … Continue reading
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Technological Power Moves
I wanted to touch on the two reactions that Selber calls “power moves” that users have when dealing with technology. The two stages that he suggests in terms of technology are adjustment and reconstitution, the first I think is the … Continue reading
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Why is knowing just enough ok?
Think about the reading levels of most local newspapers (not the big major ones) and then think about how that is supposed to represent the most literate nation in the world. There seems to be a similar phenomenon with regards … Continue reading
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